2 - Liturgical Calendar and Divine Office

Liturgical calendar

The annual cycle of the mysteries of christ, the blessed virgin, angels, and saints, which the church commemorates in the mass, the divine office, and other forms of public worship

Sunday of advent

The liturgical year begins with the __ and closes with the thirty fourth week through the year

Purple

Symbolizes humility and penance

White

Symbolizes glory, innocence, and purity

Red

Fire of charity and love

Green

Hope

Purple

Advent, lent and masses for the dead

White, gold

Feasts of our lord jesus, bvm and non martyred saints

Red

Pentecost, feasts of apostles and martyrs

Green

Ordinary time, lasts for thirty four weeks

Pink, gaudete sunday, laetare sunday

Used during third sunday of advent __, and fourth sunday of lent

Advent season

Nee year of the church’s liturgical calender

Adventus

Advent season came from the latin word __ which means coming

Maranatha

Advent season, greek word __ which means come lord jesus

Advent season

It marks the beginning of spiritual preparation by the faithful before christmas, it spans four sunday preparation

Circular shape

God has no beginning and no end

Evergreen leaves

Hope in eternal life

4 candles

Four weeks of preparation

Penance

1st purple

Hope

2nd purple

Joy, gaudete

3rd pink

Consolation

4th purple

Christmas season

Commemorates the joyous birth of christ or the mystery of incarnation

Mystery of incarnation

The son of god who became man and lived among us

Season of lent

Begins with ash wednesday and ends on holy thursday before the evening mass of the lord’s supper

Season of lent

It is characterized by penance for our sins, works of mercy and personal preparation for the renewal of our baptismal promises on easter vigil

Ashes on our foreheads

The __ came from the burnt palms used and blessed during palm sunday

Ashes on our foreheads

It reminds us that we came from dust and to dust we shall return

Prayer, fasting/abstinence, alsmgiving

3 pillars of lenten season

Fasting

Skip one full meal a day

Abstinence

To refrain from eating meat/pork or our favorite food in the spirit of sacrifice

Holy week

The high point of the lenten season, it opens with the procession with blessed palms and the gospel reading of the passion and death of our lord

Easter season

Commemorates the resurrection of jesus from the dead

Ordinary season

Ordered or numbered time is celebrated in two segments, from the monday following the baptism of our lord up to ash wednesday and from pentecost monday to the first sunday of advent

Ordinary season

This is the largest season of the liturgical year

33 or 34 sundays

The church counts __ of ordinary time, inviting her children to meditate upon the whole mystery of christ, his life, miracles, and teachings kn the light of his resurrection

Divine office

Certain prayers to be recited at fixed hours of the day or night by priests, religious, or clerics and, by all those obliged by their vocation to fulfill this duty

Divine office

Comprises only the recitation of certain prayers in the breviary, and does not include the mass and other liturgical ceremonies

Lauds

Morning prayer

Vespers

Evening prayer

Compline

Night prayer