Welcome to the Church Year

Informationen zum Autor Vicki K. Black is a writer, editor, and book designer. She is the author of Welcome to the Bible, Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer, and Welcome to the Church Year, three popular church titles all published by Morehouse. She and her family live in Maine. Klappentext A tour through the dates, colors, and other traditions of the Church year. This third volume in the popular Morehouse series explains why we do what we do and when, and it does so in a user-friendly, thoroughly interesting way. Zusammenfassung From birthday cakes and anniversary dinners to summer vacations at the beach, each family has its own ways of marking the days and seasons of its life. For the Christian familyespecially Episcopaliansit's no different. With an array of colors and an assortment of rich traditions, Episcopalians move through the Church year, marking the days and seasons that tell the story of Christ in our livesin history and today. This bookwritten for newcomers to the Episcopal Church as well as lifelong memberstakes readers by the hand and leads them through the Church year, from the first Sunday of Advent through the last Sunday of Pentecost, answering questions like Why do we use purple in Lent? and What does Maundy Thursday mean? In an easy-to-read conversational style, Welcome to the Church Y ear introduces readers to the traditions of the Church seasons and explains why we do what we do. But it does more than offer interesting trivia about church vestments and pageantry. Its insights can help readers participate in the liturgies of the Church year in a deeper, more meaningful way.

Autorentext
Vicki K. Black is a writer, editor, and book designer. She is the author of Welcome to the Bible, Welcome to the Book of Common Prayer, and Welcome to the Church Year, three popular church titles all published by Morehouse. She and her family live in Maine.

Klappentext
A tour through the dates, colors, and other traditions of the Church year. This third volume in the popular Morehouse series explains why we do what we do and when, and it does so in a user-friendly, thoroughly interesting way.


Zusammenfassung
From birthday cakes and anniversary dinners to summer vacations at the beach, each family has its own ways of marking the days and seasons of its life. For the Christian familyespecially Episcopaliansit's no different. With an array of colors and an assortment of rich traditions, Episcopalians move through the Church year, marking the days and seasons that tell the story of Christ in our livesin history and today.This bookwritten for newcomers to the Episcopal Church as well as lifelong memberstakes readers by the hand and leads them through the Church year, from the first Sunday of Advent through the last Sunday of Pentecost, answering questions like Why do we use purple in Lent? and What does Maundy Thursday mean? In an easy-to-read conversational style, Welcome to the Church Year introduces readers to the traditions of the Church seasons and explains why we do what we do. But it does more than offer interesting trivia about church vestments and pageantry. Its insights can help readers participate in the liturgies of the Church year in a deeper, more meaningful way.

Inhalt
(sample contents for each chapter in parenthesis); 1. Welcome to the Church Year (the two cycles, development of the liturgical calendar, the Lectionary); 2. Advent (themes, traditions, the Sunday liturgy); 3. Christmas (services, the Twelve Days, lessons and carols); 4. Epiphany (the feast, Holy Days in Epiphany, blessings); 5. Lent (the Way of the Cross, Ash Wednesday, the prayer over the people); 6. Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Tenebrae, footwashing, stripping the altar); 7. Easter to Pentecost (the Ascension, Trinity Sunday, All Saints' Day)

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