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The Liturgical Year
The Liturgical Year
Every year Christian church goers hear the same Scripture stories over and over again. Every year they celebrate the same feasts and liturgical seasons. Why? What is the purpose of the Liturgical Year? In this illuminating book, Joan Chittister explains that the liturgical year immerses us over and over again in the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are—followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening.
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"What Sister Joan gives us in her discussion here is part historical instruction, part Christian mentoring, and part gentle wisdom."
—Phyllis Tickle, from the Introduction
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I am writing about the Christian year, the liturgical year, the year that puts in relief the full array of Christian mysteries and spiritual cycles for all to see…. This book, then, does not concentrate simple on what it means to grow older as one year succeeds another. This book is about growing wiser, growing holier, growing more embedded in the essentials of life as the years go by rather than simply moving from one time of life to the next. The liturgical year is an adventure in bringing the Christian life to fullness, the heart to alert, the soul to focus. It does not concern itself with the questions of how to make a living. It concerns itself with the questions of how to make a life.
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