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Christian Calendar

The Christian calendar includes all the festivities Christian.

Summary

Terminology

Depending on the dates they are celebrated a festival can be:

  • Fixed a festival: annual commemoration of which the date is fixed;
  • a movable feast: annual commemoration whose date depends on that of Easter, itself moving, or is related to a party fixed but is adjusted to match a weekday.

Depending on the nature of the celebration may also be a party:

  • a celebration of devotion commemorating optional;
  • a feast of obligation or precept: commemoration imposed by the Church;
  • a Public Holiday: Feast of duty marked by a civil legal rest a day;
  • carillonne a feast: great party (usually non-working, but it depends on the country) announced the day before by chimes (in church every Sunday are observed and chimes).

Arranged chronologically starting from January 1

Notes:

Festivals fixed

Some festivals have fixed dates from the civil calendar , which is solar :

Moving holidays

The calculation of the dates of movable feasts, including the date of Easter , is called computation (Latin computar, calculating).

Other holidays are linked to a mobile but fixed date of the calendar:

  • the fifth Sunday before Christmas: the Feast of Christ the King C., last Sunday of the Liturgical Year C;
  • the fourth Sunday before Christmas: First Sunday of Advent C P,1 st day of the Liturgical Year C;
  • the third Sunday before Christmas: Second Sunday of Advent C P, 8 th day of the Liturgical Year C (may coincide with the Immaculate Conception);
  • the second Sunday before Christmas: Third Sunday of Advent C P, 15 th day of the Liturgical Year C;
  • the last Sunday before Christmas: Fourth Sunday of Advent C P, 21 th day of the Liturgical Year C.

All those associated with Easter are set according to a lunar calendar and are movable within the civil calendar. Easter is defined in the Catholic liturgy as the first Sunday following the first full moon of spring.

  • the ninth Sunday, 63 days before Easter: the Septuagesima
  • the sixth Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, 40 days before Palm Sunday: the Mardi Gras C
  • the sixth Wednesday, 39 days before Palm Sunday: The Ash Wednesday C
  • the last Sunday before Easter: Palm Sunday
  • Last week before Easter: Holy Week
  • Thursday before Easter: the Holy Thursday celebration of the Eucharist to commemorate the Last Supper ;
  • the Friday before Easter: Good Friday , commemorating the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ ;
  • the first Sunday following (or coincident with) the first full moon following the vernal equinox: Easter celebration of the Resurrection (cf. Comput );
  • Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter: The Triduum Easter;
  • the day after Easter: Easter Monday ;
  • the first Sunday after Easter is the feast of Divine Mercy (since 2000).
  • 3 days before Ascension, 36 to 38 days after Easter: Rogation Days C
  • the sixth Thursday, 39 days after Easter: the Ascension , Ascension
  • the seventh Sunday, 49 days after Easter: Pentecost
  • Sunday after Pentecost, 56 days after Easter: Feast of the Holy Trinity
  • Thursday after Trinity, 60 days after Easter: the feast of Corpus Christi
  • Kirchentag , the feast of the church (Lutheran, and then extended to all Protestants) in Germany. Celebrated since 1848 in response to the revolution of 1848. Was first celebrated in September and since 1945 in May or June.

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