A tour through the dates, colors, and other traditions of the Church year. This third volume in the popular Morehouse series explains why we do what we do and when, and it does so in a user-friendly, thoroughly interesting way.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
(sample contents for each chapter in parenthesis); 1. Welcome to the Church Year (the two cycles, development of the liturgical calendar, the Lectionary); 2. Advent (themes, traditions, the Sunday liturgy); 3. Christmas (services, the Twelve Days, lessons and carols); 4. Epiphany (the feast, Holy Days in Epiphany, blessings); 5. Lent (the Way of the Cross, Ash Wednesday, the prayer over the people); 6. Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Tenebrae, footwashing, stripping the altar); 7. Easter to Pentecost (the Ascension, Trinity Sunday, All Saints' Day)
