Liturgical Year

• celebrates the saving work

of Christ . . . the whole
mystery of Christ.
• From incarnation to Ascension to
Pentecost and until the expectation of
the blessed coming of the Lord
• Advent
• Advent is
Period of
devout and
Expectant
delight
 •Time for preparation
for the Solemnity of
2 Reasons
Christmas
•The Coming at the end
of time
 It is time to recall the cry of early
Christians: Maranatha! Come Lord
Jesus!

advent
A penitential celebration is one way of
assisting the people of God in preparing
for the solemnity of the nativity of the
Lord
• The use of organ ang musical
instrument and decorating of the
altar with flowers should be done
in moderate manner, as is
consonant with the character of
the season without anticipating the
full Joy of Christmas (Caeremoniale
Episcoporum, 236)
• The same celebration is observed
in the celebration of matrimony
 • In honor of the blessed virgin
Mary, to be celebrated nine
days before Christmas for the
Aguinaldo perseverance of the nation in
Masses faith
• Gloria is sung ang white
vestment is used even on
sunday
From December 17
onwards
The liturgical text is directly concerned with
the immediate preparation for the
Christmas feast.
• Christmas and Epiphany
• Jesus Comes and Lives
among us
 • It shows that the nativity of the
Octave of the Lord is also a feast of Christ’s
Nativity of the final coming, when he will be
Lord surrounded by his angels and
saints, represented by St.
Stephen, St. John the Apostle
and the Holy Innocents
 •The ancient custom of
Epiphany of
announcing the dates of
the Lord movable feasts for the
coming year.
• Lent
• Time of preparation
• Time of waiting
• Begins on ash Wednesday until
Holy Thursday]
• We support those who are
preparing to be baptize at Easter
• We prepare to renew our Baptismal
promises
• All memorials of saints occurring during the Lent are observed as
optional. Hence, they may be omitted or observed as
commemorations.
• Alleluia is not is not sung or said from the beginning of Lent until
Easter vigil
• Altar should not be decorated with the flowers, and musical
instrument may be played only to give necessary support to the
singing
• It is fitting that the Lenten season conclude, both for the
individual Christian as well as whole Christian community, with a
penitential celebration so as to be helped to prepare to celebrate
more fully the paschal mystery.
• Holy Week
• Beginning with
Palm Sunday
• The church
annual
celebration of
the events of
Christ’s
Passion, Death
and
Resurrection
• The Church celebrates the mysteries of
salvation accomplished by Christ in the last
days of his earthly life from his messianic
entry into Jerusalem until His blessed passion
and glorious resurrection.
• The weekdays of this week is dedicated to
the celebration of penance, abstaining from
the celebration of the sacraments of Baptism
and confirmation
• Triduum
• Paschal or
Easter
Triduum
• From Holy
Thursday until
Easter sunday
• The heart and
the center of
liturgical year
• Begins in the evening mass of the Lord’s supper
ending with the conclusion of vespers on Easter
Sunday.
• The point f the entire liturgical year
• Easter
• Time to celebrate
• Jesus Rose from the dead
• Time of Victory
• From Easter Sunday until
Pentecost
• Ordinary time
• Listen to Christ
• Living as his Followers
• Ends on Christ the
King
• Ordinary time part I
• Begins after the day of the
feast of baptism
• Continues until day before
ash Wednesday
• Ordinary time part II
• Begins after Pentecost
• Continues until before
advent begins
 The Church Honors

• The blessed Mother

• The martyrs and Saints
 Liturgical Colors

• Purple /Violete
• For Advent – it symbolyses
• The darkness and sin
• The Royalty of Jesus
• Similarly in Lent – these color reminds us
• Sin
• The Greatness of Jesus
• White or Gold
• For Christmas Season
• The Joy that Jesus brings to our
world and to our hearts
• For Easter
• The Joy ad Victory of the Risen
Lord
• Red
• Used on Palm Sunday
• Good Friday
• Reminding us of our
faithfulness and Courage
• Pentecost
• Reminding us of the life
of the Holy Spirit
• Green
• For Ordinary time
• The universal symbol of life ang
growth
• Rose
• At the midpoint of
Advent
• At the midpoint of Lent

• Lifts the penetential

spirit to a spirit of Joy