The Seasons of Advent and Christmas
The Liturgical Year
The following sections are from Dom Prosper Guéranger's The Liturgical Year
Advent
Christmas
- The History of Christmas
- The Mystery of Christmas
- Practice During Christmas
- Morning and Night Prayers for Christmas
- On Hearing Mass During the Season of Christmas
- On Holy Communion During Christmas
- On the Office of Vesters for Sundays and Feasts During Christmas
- On te Office of Compline During Christmas
Christmas Day
Fr. Z's ADVENTCAzTs
Fr. John Zuhlsdoft, author of the blog What Does the Prayer Really Say (WDTPRS), Will be preparing a short (approx. 5 min.) audio recording each day during Advent to help us with our preparations for the upcoming feast.
- First Week of Advent:
- Sunday: Wake Up!
- Monday: Heaven, when will we hear you sing?
- Tuesday: The lights we kindle
- Wednesday: Advent is not a sacred liturgical play...
- Thursday: Our miserable flesh
- Friday: Boogeymen
- Saturday: Tota pulchra est Maria
- Second Week of Advent:
- Sunday: Time which is lost returneth not
- Monday: Indispensible reasons of the heart
- Tuesday: Better a lowly peasant than a proud philosopher
- Wednesday: Stir up our hearts, O Lord
- Thursday: The ‘type’ of the manly vocation
- Friday: The trees of the wood will clap their hands
- Saturday: Illness and suffering, just like great delight
- Third Week of Advent:
- Sunday: True love calls sin "sin"
- Monday: Hectic commercialism, hushed mystery
- Tuesday: The innermost core of the mystery of Christmas
- Wednesday: Religion has dissolved into an emotion, but...
- Thursday: His domain is oecumenical
- Friday: In front of him stands The Tempter
- Saturday: No power can take it from us
- Fourth Week of Advent:
- Sunday: Should not His arrival be more majestic?
- Monday: Dinosaurs and You
- Christmas Eve: The Child knocks on the doors of our world
- CHRISTMASCAzTs
- Wednesday 12/25: Christmas Day - the prophetic cipher
- Thursday 12/26: Boxing Day - St. Stephen
- Friday 12/27: The real content of this feast...
- Saturday 12/28: Beauty for God's house, beauty for the poor
- Sunday 12/29: When God is not honored
- Monday 12/30: We are like Herod