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Liturgical Year The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - the Ancient Practices Series

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ISBN-10: 0849946077

ISBN-13: 9780849946073

Edition: 2010

Authors: Phyllis Tickle, Phyllis Tickle

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A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.What may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days, or liturgical seasons, this book explains their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live and think as Jesus did.And it proposes to help us to year after year immerse ourselves into the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Incorporated
Publication date: 12/27/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.46" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Phyllis Tickle is Contributing Editor in Religion for "Publishers Weekly". One of America's most respected authorities on religion, she is frequently interviewed for both print & electronic media, & is a regular guest on PBS's "Religion & Ethics News Weekly." The author of more than two dozen books, including the recently published "Divine Hours", she lives in Lucy, Tennessee.

Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Foreword
The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life
A Living Model, a Real Life
The Year That Gives Meaning to Every Other Year
The Components of the Liturgical Year
Sunday
Human Time, Liturgical Time
The Place of Worship in Human Life
Calendars
Advent: The Human Experience of Waiting
The Voice of Advent
Joy: The Essence of It All
Christmas: The Coming of the Light
The Christmas Season: Stars to Steer By
Christmastide: The Fullness of the Time
Ordinary Time I: The Wisdom of Enoughness
Asceticism
Lent: A Symphony in Three Parts
Ash Wednesday and the Voices of Lent
Suffering
Holy Week I: Hope to Match the Suffering
Holy Week II: Faith Tested to the End
Holy Thursday
Good Friday
Holy Saturday: The Loss That Is Gain
Easter Vigil, Easter Sunday
Celebration
Paschaltide: The Days of Pentecost
Fidelity
Ordinary Time II: The Wisdom of Routine
Models and Heroes
The Sanctoral Cycle
Marian Feasts
Epilogue
Study Guide
Notes
About the Author