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Liturgical Year Flashcards

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Time for us Christians is important and precious. It is also sacred. God’s action makes time good and sacred. Time itself requires a redemptive value when made meaningful and memorable by an act of God.

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True

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What is the purpose of the liturgical year

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The liturgical calendar uses terms and measurements similar to a typical calendar. However, the liturgical calendar’s purpose is to celebrate and understand the mystery of Jesus Christ and the expectation of his return in glory. In each liturgical year, we celebrate the entire life and paschal mystery of Jesus Christ.

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consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read.

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Liturgical year

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Special seasons in liturgical year

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Advent
Christmas
Lent
The Triduum or Three Days
Easter
Ordinary Time.

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It usually begins on the ______ which usually occurs around the _______ or the end of November and ends on _______

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First Sunday of Advent,

beginning of December

the feast of Christ the King.

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Thus the cycle of the liturgical year and the great feasts constitute the basic rhythm of the Christian’s life of prayer, with its focal point at _____

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Easter

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The ______ is the temporal structure within which the Church celebrates the holy mysteries of Christ: “From the Incarnation and the Nativity to the Ascension, to Pentecost and to the wait in joyful hope for the Lord’s coming”

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liturgical year

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The liturgical year cycles through different seasons similar to the natural year

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Summer
Fall
Winter
Spring

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This parallels the life of Jesus Christ; the liturgical year is based upon the central mysteries of His life

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Birth
Life
Death
Resurrection

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  • constitutes the unifying center of every liturgical celebration as well as of the whole liturgical year-which in turn recalls the whole mystery of Christ, from his incarnation till his Second Coming.
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PDR

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– preparation for the coming of Christ

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Advent

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– celebration of Jesus’ Incarnation and birth

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Christmas

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– recollection of Jesus’ public life

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Ordinary Time

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– Christ’s life culminating in his betrayal and crucifixion

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Lent

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– celebration of Christ’s Resurrection and Ascension, as well as the descent of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost.

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Easter

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– period when we continue to learn about the path to holiness as witnessed by the life of Christ

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Ordinary Time

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– days throughout the year dedicated to Jesus, Mary, the saints, and angels

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Feast Days

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After Pentecost ends to when Advent starts Life, hope, anticipation

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Time of the Church or Ordinary Times

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Early December Penance, sacrifice, preparation

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Advent

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December Purity, light, glory, joy

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Christmas

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presented as the original feast day for Christians, weekly communitarian celebration of the paschal mystery

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Sunday

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is the culmination and high point of the entire liturgical year.

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Easter Sunday

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What is the heart of the liturgical year

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Lent

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While the First Sunday of Advent begins the

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Church’s Liturgical Year

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—that collection of liturgical celebrations encompassing the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ, beginning with the Last

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Sacred Triduum

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The liturgical year

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A-dvent
C-hristmas
O-rdinary Time
L-ent
P-aschal Triduum
E-aster
O-rdinary Tme

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Color of ordinary time

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Green

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Color of feast of martyrs

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Red

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Color of pentecost

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Red

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Color of passion sunday

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Red

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Color of Christmas

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White

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Color of easter

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White

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Color for Feasts of jesus, mary and other saints

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White

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Color for advent

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Purple

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Color for lent

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Purple

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Color for Gaudate Sunday in Advent and Laetare Sunday in Lent

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Rose

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comes from the Latin word “advenire” or “Adventus” which means “arrival”

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Advent

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refers to our awaiting the arrival of the commemoration of Christ’s birth, and His Second Coming.

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Advent

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celebrating a truth about God, the revelation of God in Christ whereby all of creation might be reconciled to God.

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Advent

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with the progressive lighting of its four candles, Sunday after Sunday, until the Solemnity of Christmas, is a recollection of the various stages of salvation history prior to Christ’s coming and a symbol of the prophetic light gradually illuminating the long night prior to the rising of the Sun of justice

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The Advent wreath,

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The five candles together on the advent wreath symbolize

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Jesus being born as the light of the world.

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first purple candle is the ___

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prophets candle, and it symbolizes hope

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second purple candle is _____

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the Bethlehem candle. It represents Christ’s manger and symbolizes love.

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third candle is pink and it is called the ____

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shepherd’s candle. The shepherd’s candle symbolizes joy.

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fourth candle is purple and ____

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is called the Angel’s candle. It symbolizes peace.

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white candle symbolizes

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Christ who has come into the world to save it from its sins.

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dove is also often seen in Christmas decorations and it is a ___

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symbol of peace.

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As it’s the celebration of Christ’s Incarnation, the mood of this is of humble, grateful, joyous celebration.

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Christmastide

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The Feast of Christmas itself lasts ___

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12 days

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Christmastide lasts from ___

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Vespers of 24 December to 13 January (the Octave of the Epiphany) inclusive (19 calendar days in terms of liturgical calculations).

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This season, which continues the Christmas focus on and the Divine Childhood and segues into focusing on Jesus’ public ministry, lasts from 14 January to the vigil of Septuagesima Sunday (the ninth Sunday before Easter, which is the same as 3 Sundays before Ash Wednesday) inclusive (4 - 38 calendar days). Its color is green.

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Time after Epiphany

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Two periods in the Roman calendar are called

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Ordinary Time

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first period of ordinary time begins

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on Monday after the Sunday following 6 January and continues until Tuesday before Ash Wednesday

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second period of ordinary time begins “

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on Monday after Pentecost and ends before Evening Prayer I of the First Sunday of Advent

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This Season, whose name name means “Seventy” and which recalls the Babylonian Exile, lasts from Septuagesima Sunday to Shrove Tuesday (the day before Ash Wednesday) inclusive (16 calendar days). Its color is violet.

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Septuagisma

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This season, also called “Quadraegesima,” meaning “Forty,” is a somber, penitential Season that recalls Christ’s 40 days in the desert, prefigured by the Israelites’ wandering in the desert for 40 years.

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Lent

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Sacred Triduum

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The last three days of Holy Week – i.e., Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday

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Lent lasts ____ days from ____ to the _______, with the last three days – the Sacred Triduum – being treated separately liturgically speaking (46 calendar days). Its color is violet.

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Ash Wednesday
Saturday before Easter

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which comes from a Latin phrase meaning “removal of meat,” is the three day period preceding the beginning of Lent, the Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday immediately before Ash Wednesday, which is the first day of the Lenten Season

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Mardi Gras or carnival

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Ash Wednesday, occurs when

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the seventh Wednesday before Easter Sunday, is the first day of the Season of Lent.

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Its name comes from the ancient practice of placing ashes on worshippers’ heads or foreheads as a sign of humility before God, a symbol of mourning and sorrow at the death that sin brings into the world. It not only prefigures the mourning at the death of Jesus, but also places the worshipper in a position to realize the consequences of sin.

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Ash Wednesday

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_____ is a somber day of reflection on what needs to change in our lives if we are to be fully Christian.

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Ash Wednesday

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The joyous, victorious Easter season lasts from the Easter Vigil to the day before Trinity Sunday (56 calendar days, not counting Easter Vigil). Its color is white or gold.

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Paschaltide (Eastertide)

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is an ancient symbol of the risen Jesus and commonly used in liturgical parishes during the Great Fifty Days of Easter.

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The paschal candle

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It is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples of Christ after the Resurrection.

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Pentecost

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This Season’s focus is the Holy Spirit in the Millennium, the Church Age that we now live in, and Christ’s Reign as King of Kings – the time between the Age of the Apostles and the Age to Come. This season lasts from Trinity Sunday to the day before Advent Sunday (per the calendar, its length varies). Its color is green.

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Time after pentecost

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  • The visit of the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary to inform her that she was to be the mother of the Savior. After giving her consent to God’s word, Mary became the mother of Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit
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Annunciation

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  • The entry of Jesus’ humanity into divine glory in God’s heavenly domain, forty days after His Resurrection
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Ascension

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  • The dogma that recognizes the Blessed Virgin Mary’s singular participation in her Son’s Resurrection by which she was taken up body and soul into heavenly glory, when the course of her earthly life was finished
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Assumption

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  • The feast that celebrates the manifestation to the world of the newborn Christ as Messiah, Son of God, and Savior of the world. The feast of Epiphany celebrates the adoration of Jesus by the wise men (magi) from the east, together with his baptism in the Jordan and the wedding feast of Cana in Galilee
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Epiphany

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… - The name sometimes given to a religious gathering or service that is not found in any official liturgical book. A common example is a “holy hour” that includes hymns, prayers and sermons.”

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PARALITURY

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A kind of prayer service that in some ways resembled Mass but did not include the consecration of the Eucharist, and the “holy hour,” another devotional practice that sometimes included Eucharistic devotion.

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paraliturgy

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