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- Like the regular calendar – marked by special seasons and days
- Seasons?:
- Advent, Christmas, Lent, The Triduum or Three Days, Easter, and Ordinary
Time.
- Not just to mark time – but to celebrate the work of Jesus from the
Incarnation to the Pentecost to His return in Glory
- Liturgical calendar list the feats and Holy Days for each day of the
season
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- Colors?
- White (Gold), Red, Purple/Violet, Green, Rose
- Green:
- Ordinary Time
- White:
- Christmas/Easter, feasts; Mary, Angels, Saints
- Red:
- Good Friday, Palm Sunday, Pentecost, Confirmation, feasts of martyrs
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- Violet/Purple
- Lent/Advent: Seasons of Preparation and penance
- Can be used for funerals- usually white is used
- Rose: Third Sunday of Advent, 4th Sunday of Lent:
Anticipation of Christmas and Easter
- Season is half over
- Use is optional
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- Green
- Ordinary time
- Symbolizes life and hope
- Black
- Can be used in funerals and masses for the dead
- Also can be used on All Souls Day
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- Ordinary time: 34 weeks
- Lent: 7 weeks
- Advent: 4 weeks
- Christmas: Octave; 8 days
- Triduum: Holy Thursday – Easter
- Easter: 7 weeks
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Notes
