The Feasts: How the Church Year Forms Us as Catholics

The Feasts: How the Church Year Forms Us as Catholics

Every day is a holiday in the Catholic Church. In their latest collaboration, Cardinal Wuerl and Mike Aquilina examine the history and traditions behind both favorite and forgotten holidays, from Christmas to Easter, from the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity to the Feast of the Holy Angels

Catholic faith is festive, and the Catholic faithful count their days by celebrating the mysteries of Jesusâ€™ life. There is a message to be found in the passing of days, weeks, and seasons. Through the feasts, ordinary Christians learn the life of Christ, share it, and come to imitate it.
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This book continues the work the authors began in their books The Mass and The Church, exploring the meaning and purpose of the most basic and beloved aspects of Catholic life. Each chapter uncovers the biblical origins and development of one of the great feasts or fasts â€” Advent, Epiphany, the Holy Angels, all the Marian feasts, and even this very day. The calendar can be a catechism for Catholics who know how to live it.

â€œThe feasts form us,â€ write the authors, â€œThey help to make us and remake us according to the pattern of the life of Jesus Christ. We number our days as we walk in his footsteps, from his birth to his baptism, from his passion to his resurrection, from his Ascension to his sending of the Spirit to make us saints. We do this faithfully every year, and it defines us as who we are.â€
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â€œCardinal Wuerl and Aquilina show us the transformative spiritual power in the Churchâ€™s original and most ancient feasts. This is a book to be prayed with and meditated on. Because when we understand the meaning of the Churchâ€™s liturgical feasts, we know better the great dignity and destiny we have as children of God.â€
- Most Reverend JosÃ© Gomez, Archbishop of Los Angeles
Country USA
Manufacturer Image
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2014-09-16
EANs 9780804139922

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Image
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2014-09-16
EANs	9780804139922

The Feasts: How the Church Year Forms Us as Catholics

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