What is the heck is a Liturgical Year or Church Year, you ask?
In her book, The Liturgical Year, Joan Chittister writes this about the liturgical year, “[it is] the year that puts in relief the full array of Christian mysteries and spiritual cycles for all to see…The liturgical year is an adventure in bringing the Christian life to fullness, the heart to alert, the soul to focus.” A more “technical” definition is: “The liturgical cycle divides the year into a series of seasons, each with their own mood, theological emphases, and modes of prayer, which can be signified by different ways of decorating churches, colors of Paraments and Vestments for clergy, scriptural readings, themes for preaching and even different traditions and practices often observed personally or in the home. In churches that follow the liturgical year, the scripture passages for each Sunday (and even each day of the year in some traditions) are specified by a list called a lectionary.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year) Why should anyone care about a traditional c
