The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Year
Author: Joan Chittister
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-12-27
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418580732

A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time. The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. What may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days, or liturgical seasons, this book explains their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live and think as Jesus did. And it proposes to help us to year after year immerse ourselves into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are—followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening. A volume in the eight book classic series, The Ancient Practices, with a foreword by Phyllis Tickle, General Editor.

Children's Liturgical Calendar Activity Book

Children's Liturgical Calendar Activity Book
Author: Donece M. Mccleary
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2012-10-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0809167255

An activity book for children that engages the whole family in preparing to celebrate the liturgical season of the church year. Includes a pull-out calendar that children can color and display. Ages 7-11. +

The Liturgical Year

The Liturgical Year
Author: Adolf Adam
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1990
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814660478

Places the theological and spiritual elements of the liturgical world against the backdrop of its historical development.

My Book of the Church's Year

My Book of the Church's Year
Author: Peter Kwasniewski
Publisher:
Total Pages: 42
Release: 2015-11-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781519297457

This is a charming children's book that walks through the traditional Catholic liturgical year in its seasons and symbols, while highlighting some of our most beloved saints. The graphic design is brilliantly done -- no book compares with this one for a striking and memorable overview of the liturgical year. It makes a superb catechetical tool.

The Origins of the Liturgical Year

The Origins of the Liturgical Year
Author: Thomas J. Talley
Publisher: Pueblo Publishing Company
Total Pages: 255
Release: 1991
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814660751

In this definitive work, Thomas Talley draws on al the resources of historical scholarship to examine and unravel the complications brought to liturgical time by the blending of local traditions. Liturgical time, like al ecclesiastical structures, has interacted with other traditions since the early centuries. Yet Doctor Talley found that the gospel tradition and its liturgical employment shaped the period that comprises the liturgical year. His findings illustrate for the reader that every festival the Church celebrates - very Sunday - is centered primarily and finally in the Eucharist, which from the beginning and always proclaims the Lord's death until he comes.

Numbering My Days

Numbering My Days
Author: Chene Heady
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1621640310

Chene Heady was a believing Catholic whose daily concerns were shaped primarily by forces other than his faith--career demands, financial decisions, scheduling conflicts, etc. He worked long hours and had limited regular interaction with his wife, also a busy professional, and his young daughter. He was the typical overextended and anonymous modern Catholic man. Then he tried an experiment that dramatically rearranged his life. After reading about the importance of the Church's liturgical year, Heady took up the challenge to live as though the Church's calendar, not the secular one, stood at the center of his life. Every day for a year, he observed the Church's seasons and feasts, and meditated on the Church's daily readings. As he did so, he found that his life, and his relationships, became more meaningful and fruitful. Numbering My Days tells the story of one man's renewal, and it offers an authentic model of spiritual development for anyone.

The 1928 Book of Common Prayer

The 1928 Book of Common Prayer
Author: Oxford University Press
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 523
Release: 1993-11-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199796068

The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is a treasured resource for traditional Anglicans and others who appreciate the majesty of King James-style language. This classic edition features a Presentation section containing certificates for the rites of Baptism, Confirmation, and Marriage. The elegant burgundy hardcover binding is embossed with a simple gold cross, making it an ideal choice for both personal study and gift-giving. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer combines Oxford's reputation for quality construction and scholarship with a modest price - a beautiful prayer book and an excellent value.

Living the Christian Year

Living the Christian Year
Author: Bobby Gross
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2012-04-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830866949

Bobby Gross presents chapters on each season of the liturgical year, accompanied by weekly devotions based on the Sunday readings of the lectionary cycle. His book offers a flexible weekly format, designed to let you break the devotions down any way you want to.

Calendar

Calendar
Author: Dr. Laurence Hull Stookey
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2011-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426728042

A probing but clearly written book, Calendar will find an appreciative audience beyond academia and clergy to the laity of the church: choirs and their directors, worship planners, adult study groups, and others who want to understand better the church's times of preparation and celebration. Calendar centers largely on theological meaning and parish practice in relation to liturgical time. Deliberately, almost no attention is given to detailed historical development, much of which is exceedingly complex in its origins and technical in its detail. An appendix entitled "Forgetting What You Were Always Taught (Or, This Book in a Nutshell)" aptly describes the radical reordering that Stookey believes occurs when our understanding of time and the story of Jesus takes its bearings from the Incarnation. So, just as the Christian week begins with Sunday, the day of Resurrection, Stookey follows the Christian year beginning with the season of Easter, and only then Lent; Christmas, then Advent. Illuminating discussions of Ordinary and Extraordinary Time, and the Sanctoral Cycle follow.