From Advent through Pentecost – the Church Calendar

The Church has her own special liturgical year and calendar in which she presents again the history and unchanging mysteries of our salvation, from Creation to the Second Coming, together with the entire life of the Savior. The mysteries do not change, but we do. Each year as we again enter into the seasons of the church year, we are a little older and wiser, we have the opportunity to review, reflect and renew these mysteries. When the familiar feasts come around we grasp something more about them because we have lived another year and apply them more deeply to our lives. Each church year, therefore, is a year of formation, like a school in which we, like pupils, learn faith, hope and charity. We learn God's will and learn to do God's will. Each Sunday and feast will present a special lesson to us for our daily living.