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Seasons of the Church Year |
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 Advent is the beginning of the Church Year for most churches in the
Western tradition. It begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas Day,
which is the Sunday nearest November 30, and ends on Christmas Eve (Dec 24).
If Christmas Eve is a Sunday, it is counted as the fourth Sunday of Advent,
with Christmas Eve proper beginning at sundown.
For more information about Advent, and for information about activities relating to Advent, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cyadvent.html
Also available are the following articles created by Elizabeth Connery:
Advent Wreath
Jesse Tree
St. Nicholas
Advent Enrichment at Home
 Christmas While we most often think about Christmas as a single day, it is
actually a season of the year. Christmas Season in most Western church
traditions begins at sunset on Christmas Eve, December 24, and lasts
through January 5. Since this time includes 12 days, the season of
Christmas is known in many places as the Twelve
Days of Christmas.
For more information about Christmas, and for information about activities relating to Christmas, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cyxmas.html
Also available are the following articles created by Elizabeth Connery:
Nativity
Twelve Days and Epiphany
 Epiphany In western Christian tradition, January 6 is celebrated as
Epiphany. For many Protestant church traditions, the season of Epiphany extends from
January 6th until Ash Wednesday, which begins the season of Lent.
For more information about Epiphany, and for information about activities relating to Epiphany, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cyepiph.html
 Lent Originating in the fourth century of the church, the season of
Lent spans 40 weekdays beginning on Ash
Wednesday and climaxing during Holy Week
with Holy Thursday (Maundy Thursday), Good Friday, and concluding Saturday
before Easter.
For more information about Lent, and for information about activities relating to Lent, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cylent.html
 Easter or Resurrection Sunday is the day Christians celebrate the
resurrection of Jesus the Christ from the dead. Easter is celebrated on the
first Sunday following the first full moon after the Spring equinox (the day
when the sun’s ecliptic or apparent path in the sky crosses the equator,
thus making days and nights of equal length). This usually occurs on March
21, which means the date of Easter can range between March 22 and April 25
depending on the lunar cycle. Like Christmas, Easter itself is a period of time rather than
just a day. It is actually a seven-week season of the church year called
Eastertide, the Great Fifty Days
that begins at sundown the evening before Easter Sunday (the Easter Vigil)
and lasts for six more Sundays until Pentecost Sunday.
For more information about Easter, and for information and activities relating to Easter, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cyeaster.html
 Pentecost In the Christian tradition, the Day of Pentecost falls on the seventh Sunday after Easter. Pentecost represents God’s
gracious, enabling presence actively at work among His people, calling and
enabling them to live out in dynamic ways the witness of being His people.
For more information about Pentecost, visit http://www.crivoice.org/cypentecost.html
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