Posts tagged Liturgical Seasons- prayer

Happy Catholic New Year

Happy New Year!
No, this greeting isn’t early for Catholics who begin the new liturgical year on the First Sunday of Advent.

Are you looking to live more peacefully and with greater purpose as a family? Look to the Church’s Liturgical Year in which we enter into Christ’s life from beginning to end. We do not need to ignore secular holidays or celebrations but placing more focus and effort on the Church’s Year brings a natural, fruitful and more peaceful rhythm to our lives.

Faith & Prayer, Parenting and Family LifeKaren HettrickNovember 28, 2022Advent, fast, feast, Liturgical Seasons- prayer, Liturgical year

The Twelve Days of Christmas

This post is reprinted with permission from The Catholic Education Resource Center

The partridge in a pear tree is Christ. In nature, a mother partridge will feign injury to lure predators away from her defenseless nestlings. In the same way, our Lord protects us, vulnerable human beings, from Satan. The pear tree symbolizes the salvation of mankind, just as the apple tree symbolizes Adam and Eve's Fall from Grace.

Two turtle doves represent the Old and New Testaments.

Faith & Prayer, Parenting and Family LifeFr. William SaundersDecember 31, 2019Twelve Days of Christmas, Liturgical Seasons- prayer, catechesis, songs

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