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Christmas Season
The Christmas Octave and Season, from Christmas Eve through the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Liturgy
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Liturgy
Formation through the structure, symbolism, and historical continuity of the Church.
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The Christmas Octave and Season, from Christmas Eve through the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
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The fifty-day Easter Season culminating in Pentecost — celebrated as 'one great Sunday.'
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The two periods of the liturgical year not specifically devoted to a season of celebration or preparation. Far from being 'ordinary,' it is the time in which the mystery of Christ in all its aspects is celebrated.
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The four-week season of preparation for the celebration of Christmas, marked by joyful expectation of the Lord's coming.
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The forty-day season of penitential preparation for Easter through prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
solemnity
Honors all the saints in heaven, known and unknown, who together with the angels make up the Church Triumphant.
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Proclaims the universal kingship of Christ over all creation, every nation, every person, every aspect of life.
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The fiftieth day of Easter — the descent of the Holy Spirit on Mary and the Apostles, the birth of the Church.
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Celebrates the announcement by the Angel Gabriel to Mary that she would conceive the Son of God by the power of the Holy Spirit (Luke 1:26-38).
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Celebrates the dogma defined by Pope Pius XII in 1950: that Mary, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.