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 - 2014
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.
- Saturday: A new liturgical year
First Week of Advent
- Sunday: Show Your power, O Lord, and come!
- Monday: “The nocturnal orgy as an image of the world gone wrong…”
- Tuesday: “He chose a woman to collaborate with Himself.”
- Wednesday: “Wordless is the Word of the Father”
- Thursday: “I recalled our need to learn the value of silence.”
- Friday: Waiting
- Saturday: The “nada”… nothing
Second Week of Advent
- Sunday: “No representation of the crib is complete without the ox and the ass.”
- Monday: Mary leads us to the Eucharist.
- Tuesday: “The first born is not necessarily the first in a series…”
- Wednesday: Jesus’ birth “of the Virgin”
- Thursday: “Let not the partaking of Thy Body, O Lord…”
- Friday: “A type of the manly vocation”
- Saturday: Mary’s reaction to the angel unfolds in three steps
Third Week of Advent
- Sunday: Creation holds its breath – “Will she say ‘yes’?”
- Monday: Love always includes an inexhaustible willingness to forgive
- Tuesday: “The yearning for something purer and greater”
- Ember Wednesday: “Another step forward in our Christmas preparation”
- Thursday: Ember Days
- Ember Friday: “Through the figure of St. Joseph….”
- Ember Saturday: The state of mortal sin
Fourth Week of Advent
- Sunday: Isaiah, John and Mary
- Monday: The sunrise of history, the mystery of God’s providence
- Tuesday: Becoming Christian means leaving behind what everyone else thinks and wants
- Wednesday: “If there is a child in your midst…”
And thus concludes the series of ADVENTCAzTs...