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Advent From the Latin: Adventus: "Coming." Advent is the first season of the Church year. Advent begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas day. The color of Advent is traditionally purple, marking the preparational aspects of the season. Christmas Besides being December 25th and the day Christians mark as the celebration of the birth of Jesus (Christ's Mass), Christmas is also a Church season, running from December 25th to Epiphany (January 6th). It is this twelve-day period that is sometimes referred to as the Twelve Days of Christmas Epiphany January 6; a feast celebrating the visit of the Wise Men to the infant Jesus. Epiphany marks the end of the twelve days of Christmas (the Christmas season). Epiphany is also one of the seasons of the Church, running from the end of Christmas to Ash Wednesday. Lent From an Anglo-Saxon word, lencten, meaning, "spring," the time of the lengthening of the days. Lent is one of the six seasons of the church year and is the forty-day period beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter). The period is actually 46 days, but since Sundays are feast days, they are never included in the count. Easter It is called Easter Day in our prayer book, but has come to be called (redundantly) Easter Sunday by the media, most laity, and some clergy, all of whom ought to know better. Easter is a movable feast, which means it does not always fall on the same day each year. Easter is always the first Sunday after the full moon following the vernal equinox (first day of Spring). By this calculation, Easter could occur anytime from March 22, to April 25. The length of Epiphany and the Season after Pentecost, as well as the dates of Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Ascension Day, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday are all determined by the date of Easter. Easter is also a Church season, spanning the 50 days (six Sundays) after Easter, to Ascension Day Pentecost The Festival Sunday that comes fifty days after Easter in which we commemorate the coming of the Holy Spirit on the twelve Disciples after Christ's Resurrection (Acts 2). Pentecost is traditionally seen as the birthday of the church, and is also the beginning of the longest season in the church - the season after Pentecost. The season after Pentecost runs from the day of Pentecost to the first Sunday in Advent. Prior to the 1979 prayer book, the day of Pentecost was known as Whitsunday.
Cycles: Paschal and Incarnational
Advent: preparation, expectation. 4 Sundays. Advent III: pink. Purple or Sarum blue, blue being the color for hope.. The Burning Candles - They represent Christ as the light of the world. What is a Jesse Tree? It is a small, leafless tree decorated with symbols portraying Jesus’ spiritual heritage. It is a kind of family tree which was suggested by Isaiah’s prophecy: "there shall come forth a shoot from the stump of Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots."
Epiphany season: Magi, baptism of Jesus, Cana Bridge to Paschal cycle Transfiguration: last Sunday of Epiphany
Lent: formal observances began around 4th c. Jerusalem Temptations of Christ always reading of Lent I Customary to celebrate historical events in places associated with them in the Gospels within Holy Week Final preparations for Baptism Palm Sunday: palm procession fr Bethany to Jerus Maundy……mandatum: commandment Traditional footwashing: commandment to love one another Good Friday: comb trad fr Jerus, Constant, Gaul, rome Unity of suffering/death/resurr Holy Saturday Custom…………tradition………..worldwide tradition Originally: passion and resurrection celebrated at Great Vigil Tradition changed: Easter focused on Resurr.
Easter fixed by dependence on Lunar calendar 19 yr cycle Named after Eostre: goddess of fertility: Anglo-saxon Adds victory over death to celebration of Passover: commemoration of past events; expectation of triumph over all enemies Originally called the “Great 50 Days” Athanasius: wholly rejoicing and exulting in the Lord
Pentecost: Gr term for 50
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