Tag: Coinciding Calendars
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Immaculate Guadalupe and Other Liturgical Oddities
Universities often observe Christmas and Our Lady of Guadalupe early. Is there any better way to handle this conflict of calendars?
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Pesach, Pascha
There are not many years when the Jewish and Christian (Western) liturgical calendars work out to replay exactly the Passion chronology of John’s Gospel, but this is one of them.
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A New Date for Easter 2013, in the Holy Land
The desire to promote family unity was behind this pastoral decision.
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Holy Week: A Sacred Time?
How will you keep this week holy?
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NCC calls for common date of Easter
For the second year in a row – due to an unusual coincidence of calendars and moon phases – Easter will be observed on the same Sunday in all Christian traditions.
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May 1, 2011: Confluence of Events?
Not only does May 1 fall this year on the Second Sunday of Easter which “has been observed since 2000 as ‘Divine Mercy Sunday’…associated with a 20th century Polish nun, St. Faustina Kowalska, who was a visionary and mystic to whom John Paul II had a strong personal devotion” but “ironically, May 1 is also…
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Marian Hymns
This year, the Solemnity of the Assumption falls on Sunday. Already, many people have been calling my office to ask whether or not they should sing Marian hymns.
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Lenten Calendar, Academic Calender
There is a certain tension between the liturgical year and academic year. This tension becomes most pronounced when one places the season of Lent and the Spring semester in the same arena.