The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons...

The Liturgical Year (French: L'Année Liturgique) is a written work in fifteen volumes describing the liturgical year of the Catholic Church. The series...

The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar describes and dictates the rhythm of the life of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Passages of Holy Scripture, saints...

colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion. There is a distinction between...

there were at least 97 liturgical appointments in Athens for the festivals, rising to 118 in a (quadrennial) Panathenaic year." Groups of rich citizens...

religious holiday. The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar makes no provision for the observance of a New Year. January 1 is itself a religious holiday...

calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the...

return of Christ at the Second Coming. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name was adopted from Latin adventus ('coming;...

1750 that 29 February was formally recognised in British law. In the liturgical calendar of the Christian churches, the placement of the leap day is significant...

Catholic liturgy means the whole complex of official liturgical worship, including all the rites, ceremonies, prayers, and sacraments of the Church, as...

feast in the liturgical year which emphasises the true kingship of Christ. The feast is a relatively recent addition to the liturgical calendar, instituted...

A liturgical book, or service book, is a book published by the authority of a church body that contains the text and directions for the liturgy of its...

A fiscal year (also known as a financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget...

A cult of saints played a key part within Anglo-Saxon Christianity, a form of Roman Catholicism practised in Anglo-Saxon England from the late sixth to...

The General Roman Calendar is the liturgical calendar that indicates the dates of celebrations of saints and mysteries of the Lord (Jesus Christ) in the...

that adheres to the following calendar for the church's liturgical year. Like other liturgical calendars, the Syro-Malabar calendar loosely follows the...

and M. J. O'Connell, The Liturgical Year (Liturgical Press, 1977), p. 162. A. Nocent and M. J. O'Connell (1977), Liturgical Year, pp. 163-80. J. H. Blunt...

of the liturgical year in the Protestant Church in Germany and the Protestant Church in the Netherlands. With development of the liturgical year in the...

year 1 BC is followed directly by year AD 1 (which is the year of the epoch of the era). However, there is a year zero in both the astronomical year numbering...

Liturgical lace refers to the use of lace as a form a liturgical ornamentation at the crossroads of religious art and decorative arts. Though it is often...

quarterly periods (usually three days) of prayer and fasting in the liturgical calendar of Western Christian churches. List of neo-pagan festivals and...

The Christian Year is a series of poems for all the Sundays and some other feasts of the liturgical year of the Church of England written by John Keble...

The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood...

Sunday, among the Western Christian Churches, is the first day of the liturgical year and the start of the season of Advent. On the First Sunday of Advent...

Church for the beginning of the liturgical year. When the Julian calendar was adopted in AD 988 by Vladimir I of Kiev, the year was numbered Anno Mundi 6496...

Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, is a large family of liturgical rites and uses of public worship employed by the Latin Church, the...

among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the liturgical year in Christianity, it follows the season of Advent (which begins four...

the proper of the liturgy: that is, the part that changes over the liturgical year. In the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church it is known as the antiphona...

A missal is a liturgical book containing instructions and texts necessary for the celebration of Mass throughout the liturgical year. Versions differ across...

references to liturgical readers as a special role in the clergy. Before the liturgical reforms of Vatican II, the Latin liturgical rite used a one-year lectionary...