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...

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

often referred to as Advent Sunday. Advent is the beginning of the liturgical year in Western Christianity. The name comes from Latin adventus ('coming;...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church's liturgical year actually begins in September. In the Middle East, within the Alawites...

Gaudete Sunday (/ɡaʊˈdɛtɛ/ gow-DET-eh) is the third Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of Western Christianity, including the Roman Catholic Church...

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...

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...

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...

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

arranged to indicate passages for liturgical readings. If a congregation began reading Mark at the beginning of the year, it might arrive at the story of...

The Liturgical Movement was a 19th-century and 20th-century movement of scholarship for the reform of worship. It began in the Catholic Church and spread...

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

Wednesday, when Lent begins. The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also...

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...

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

Christmastide, also known as Christide, is a season of the liturgical year in most Christian churches. For the Catholic Church, Lutheran Church, Anglican...

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...

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...

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