The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year or kalendar, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines...

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...

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 fiscal year (or financial year, or sometimes budget year) is used in government accounting, which varies between countries, and for budget purposes...

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

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;...

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...

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...

known as Paschaltime or the Paschal season) is a festal season in the liturgical year of Christianity that focuses on celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus...

Quadragesima, 'Fortieth') is the solemn Christian religious observance in the liturgical year commemorating the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert and enduring...

calendar); in this system, the year 1 BC is followed directly by year AD 1. However, there is a year zero in both the astronomical year numbering system (where...

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...

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

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

prelatures, and territorial abbacies. Liturgical rites also exist in two kinds: Liturgical rite: a liturgical rite depending on the tradition of an autonomous...

It begins with the prayer of the Veil, in which the priest offers the liturgical sacrifice to God. The Long Litanies follows, where all pray for the peace...

Averky Liturgics – The Small Compline", Retrieved 14 April 2013 [2] Archived 26 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine "Archbishop Averky Liturgics – The Symbol...

the beginning of the liturgical year. At various times and in various places throughout mediaeval Christian Europe, the new year was celebrated on 25...

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...

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

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...

before the start of the era. There is no year zero in this scheme; thus the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC. This dating system was devised in...

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...

disks of dough, one on top of the other, and stamping it with a special liturgical seal. The prosphora should be fresh and not stale or moldy when presented...

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...