The Church Calendar is a major piece of Christian liturgy; it’s like a skeleton that provides structure for the body. This page gathers articles from the blog that pertain to different Calendar-related matters.
Calendar Principles:
- The Evening Before a Sunday
- Anticipating the next day’s feast
- Wednesdays & Fridays
- Friday Fasts
- Eucharistic Thursday
Video Series on the Calendar:
- Advent
- Christmastide
- Epiphanytide
- Pre-Lent
- Lent
- Holy Week & Easter Week
- Eastertide
- Ascensiontide & Pentecost
- Trinitytide
- All Saints’ Day & other Major Feasts
- Ember Days, Rogation Days, National Days
- Other Commemorations
On the Seasons and Sundays:
- The Last Epiphany
- Christ the King Sunday
- Transitioning to Advent
- Old Advent 1
- Christmas Day and Sunday
- Epiphanytide (traditional)
- Epiphanytide (modern)
- Transitioning toward Lent
- World Mission Sunday doesn’t have to exist (Weird Rubrics series)
- Liturgical Distinctives in Lent
- Pre-Lent
- Ash Wednesday
- Lent
- Lætare: the 4th Sunday in Lent
- Passion: the 5th Sunday in Lent
- Holy Week
- The Triduum
- Holy Saturday
- Easter Week
- Eastertide (traditional)
- Eastertide (modern)
- Reading Acts in Eastertide
- Rogationtide at home
- Eastertide: 40 or 50 days
- Ascension Day
- Ascensiontide
- Ascensiontide: the disciples were not scared
- The Pentecost Octave or Whitsundays
- Trinity Sunday
- Corpus Christi
- The “Proper” Sundays after Trinity
- All Saints’ to Advent
On the (“Red-Letter”) Holy Days:
- St. Andrew: The First Feast
- St. Thomas
- Christmas Day Options
- St. Stephen
- St. John
- The Holy Innocents
- The Circumcision & Holy Name of Christ (thematic)
- The Circumcision & Holy Name of Christ (collect & lessons)
- The 2nd Sunday after Christmas
- The Epiphany
- The Presentation or Purification
- St. Matthias
- St. Joseph
- The Annunciation
- Sts. Simon & James
- The Visitation
- The June Feasts
- Nativity of St. John the Baptist
- August Holy Days
- St. Mary the Virgin
- September Holy Days
- Holy Cross Day round-up
- Holy Cross Day: why in September?
- St. James of Jerusalem
- St. James of Jerusalem – “uncomfortably close” to Jesus
- Eve of All Saints Day versus Halloween
- All Saints’ Day versus Sunday
- Thanksgiving Day
- Ember Days
- Rogation Days
On the (“Black-Letter”) Commemorations:
- Paul, Timothy, Titus, Lydia, Dorcus, Phoebe
- King Charles the Martyr
- St. Cornelius the Centurion
- Sts. Cyril & Methodios
- Martyrs of Sudan
- St. Bede the Venerable
- St. Augustine of Canterbury
- St. Alban
- September: St. Cyprian of Carthage
- October 26: King Alfred the Great
- November Commemorations
- The Faithful Departed or All Souls’ Day
- Richard Hooker
- 6 December: St. Nicholas
- 13 December: St. Lucia
- 16 December: O Sapientia
- Your own commemorations!