
The Liturgical Year
The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series
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The Liturgical Year
The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series
About this book
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
What may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days, or liturgical seasons, this book explains their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live and think as Jesus did.
And it proposes to help us to year after year immerse ourselves into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are—followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening.
A volume in the eight book classic series, The Ancient Practices, with a foreword by Phyllis Tickle, General Editor.
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Table of contents
- COVER PAGE
- TITLE PAGE
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
- DEDICATION
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE TO THE READER
- FOREWORD
- 1 THE SPIRALING ADVENTURE OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE
- 2 A LIVING MODEL, A REAL LIFE
- 3 THE YEAR THAT GIVES MEANING TO EVERY OTHER YEAR
- 4 THE COMPONENTS OF THE LITURGICAL YEAR
- 5 SUNDAY
- 6 HUMAN TIME, LITURGICAL TIME
- 7 THE PLACE OF WORSHIP IN HUMAN LIFE
- 8 CALENDARS
- 9 ADVENT: THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE OF WAITING
- 10 THE VOICE OF ADVENT
- 11 JOY: THE ESSENCE OF IT ALL
- 12 CHRISTMAS: THE COMING OF THE LIGHT
- 13 THE CHRISTMAS SEASON: STARS TO STEER BY
- 14 CHRISTMASTIDE: THE FULLNESS OF THE TIME
- 15 ORDINARY TIME I: THE WISDOM OF ENOUGHNESS
- 16 ASCETICISM
- 17 LENT: A SYMPHONY IN THREE PARTS
- 18 ASH WEDNESDAY AND THE VOICES OF LENT
- 19 SUFFERING
- 20 HOLY WEEK I: HOPE TO MATCH THE SUFFERING
- 21 HOLY WEEK II: FAITH TESTED TO THE END
- 22 HOLY THURSDAY
- 23 GOOD FRIDAY
- 24 HOLY SATURDAY: THE LOSS THAT IS GAIN
- 25 EASTER VIGIL, EASTER SUNDAY
- 26 CELEBRATION
- 27 PASCHALTIDE: THE DAYS OF PENTECOST
- 28 FIDELITY
- 29 ORDINARY TIME II: THE WISDOM OF ROUTINE
- 30 MODELS AND HEROES
- 31 THE SANCTORAL CYCLE
- 32 MARIAN FEASTS
- 33 EPILOGUE
- NOTES
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- THE ANCIENT PRACTICES SERIES