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The Liturgical Year

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 The Liturgical Calendar
An excellent, well-designed site. By the organization Women for Faith and Family. For other good resources, try:
- The Catholic Calendar Page
- The CIN Catholic Calendar Page
- Roman Catholic Liturgical Calendars


 Mass Times
A free ministry to traveling Catholics. Offers Mass times in the United States by city, zip code or area code.

 The Liturgical Year
By Abbot Gueranger, O.S.B. This is the preface to the classic book on the Church's Liturgy, The Liturgical Year. See also Gueranger's reflections on individual feasts and seasons of the Church year:
- The History of Advent and On Holy Communion During Advent
- The Feast of the Immaculate Conception
- History of Lent and Practice During Lent
- History of Passiontide and Holy Week and Practice During Passiontide and Holy Week
- History of Paschal Time and Practice During Paschal Time
- Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
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Ascension


 
Our Liturgical Year (Byzantine Catholic)
A nice description of the Church's liturgical seasons. See also the Byzantine Catholic perspective on these special feasts of the Church year:
- The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ (explanation and history)
- Epiphany and the Blessing of Water (explanation and history)
- Palm Sunday (explanation and history)
- Holy Thursday and About Holy and Great Thursday
- Good Friday and Veneration of the Holy Shroud
- Holy and Great Saturday
- Resurrection Matins and Resurrection Services
- Pentecost and Our Baptism by the Holy Spirit (explanation and history)
- All Soul's Saturday (Explains practice of Praying for the Dead)


 Meditations on the Church Year by Blessed Columba Marmion
From Blessed Columba’s classic, Christ in His Mysteries:
- Divine Preparations (Time of Advent)
- O, Marvelous Exchange (Christmas)
- Epiphany
- The Blessed Virgin and the Hidden Life
- The Baptism and the Temptation of Jesus
- Some Aspects of the Public Life of Jesus (Lent)
- Transfiguration (Second Sunday of Lent)
- Christ ... Loved the Church and Delivered Himself Up for It, That He Might Sanctify It (Passiontide)
- In the Footsteps of Jesus from the Pretorium to Calvary (Good Friday / Stations of the Cross)
- Si Consurrexistis cum Christo (Paschal Time)
- "...And Now, Father, Glorify Thy Son" (Ascension)
- In Mei Memoriam (Corpus Christi)
- The Mission of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost)


 
The Epistles for Lent and Easter
Translations and Commentary by Father Ronald Knox. Not complete, but still helpful.
- First Sunday
- Second Sunday
- Third Sunday
- Fourth Sunday
- Passion Sunday
- Palm Sunday
- Easter Day


 Restoring Sacred Time: How the Liturgical Year Deepens Catholic faith
A nice meditation by Msgr. Peter Elliott. Excerpted from his book,
Ceremonies of the Liturgical Year According to the Modern Roman Rite.


 The Immaculate Conception
An excerpt from The Church's Year of Grace by Pius Parsch.


 
Egeria and Holy Week in Fourth-Century Jerusalem
Presents the original Latin and English translation of the remarkable diary kept by Egeria on her pilgrimage to celebrate Holy Week in Jerusalem. Egeria’s diary represents one of our most vivid snapshots of early Catholic worship.


 The Exsultet
Father Jerome Gassner, O.S.B. looks at this ancient prayer that serves as a prelude to the Easter solemnities
. The Exsultet is “a majestic proclamation of the Resurrection of Christ, a dramatic invitation to heaven and earth to join with the Church in joy and jubilation.�

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