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Category: Liturgical Season

LENT

Lent is the time of preparation for Easter, the greatest feast of the Church. During Lent, we are asked to focus on changing our lives through prayer, penance, and love. In doing these, we try to become more like Christ in his love for God and others by his dying and rising to new life.…
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CHRISTMAS

Christmas, also known as the Feast of the Nativity, literally means “Christ Mass”. The feast celebrates the birth and incarnation of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, on December 25th. Christmastide is another name for the Christmas season and currently extends from the first Vespers of Christmas Eve until the Feast of the Baptism of…
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EASTER

The Easter Season flows from the Easter Vigil and concludes fifty days later on Pentecost Sunday. It is a joyous season in which we celebrate Christ’s resurrection and ascension, as well as the coming of the Holy Spirit and the beginning of the Church. This is a time of rejoicing, when Alleluia should be sung…
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LENT