Liturgical Calendar Quotes

If you look in the Bible there's no birthdays.

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

Here's the problem with Easter. The Catholic Church needs to pick a date because it keeps moving. And I think the reason they always have Easter moving to different dates is to catch us.

I have a mystical bent, and I pursue daily meditations that follow the liturgical calendar - what are called the 'daily offices' of the church.

Pope Julius set the date for Christmas in the 4th Century... The real reasopn fpr the selection of December 25 seems to have been that it was exactly 9 months after March 25, the traditional date for Jesus' crucifixion ... As Christians developed the theological idea that Jesus was concieved and executed on the same date [of the year], they set the date of his birth 9 months later.

I used to get really pissed off that my life was so dictated by when this Jesus guy was born and when he was dying every year. I felt really resentful that I couldn't get on with my own life because I was so busy with his.