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If you’ve got kids — or even if you don’t — this simple rite is a great way to welcome the season using some things that are readily available at this time of year. Bear in mind, this is meant to be fun and a little bit silly. If you think the Universe has no sense of humor, click the back button on your browser immediately to exit this page. Difficulty: Average Time Required: 20 minutes For this ritual, you’ll need the following: A bag of jellybeans Marshmallow Peeps — chicks, bunnies, etc. Arrange your ritual supplies on your altar so they look pretty. First, give everyone present a handful of jellybeans. Behold, little jelly eggs, small symbols of the season,How we adore you! Continue this until all the colours are gone — if you really want to have some fun, make the kids take turns naming off the colours and what they mean to them.
Hail! Hail! Hail! The Wheel of the Year « A Sacred Journey. Pentecost. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT PENTECOSTClick here to return to the liturgical calendar page.
What is Pentecost? What happened on Pentecost? What is the liturgical color for Pentecost? Why is Pentecost sometimes called "Whitsunday"? Why is the rite of confirmation often celebrated on Pentecost? Pentecost is the great festival that marks the birth of the Christian church by the power of the Holy Spirit. Ten days after Jesus ascended into heaven, the twelve apostles, Jesus' mother and family, and many other of His disciples gathered together in Jerusalem for the Jewish harvest festival that was celebrated on the fiftieth day after Passover. Red is the liturgical color for this day. A tradition of some churches in ancient times was to baptize adult converts to the faith on Pentecost. The Liturgical Calendar. We at St.
Paul's Lutheran Church in Kingsville order our worship life around a liturgical calendar that has its roots in the practice and ritual of the ancient church. We follow a liturgical calendar because it is a guide that helps us remember God's marvelous plan of salvation accomplished for the world through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. While nothing in the Bible commands us to do this, we find that annually retracing the story of our salvation serves to catechize us in the faith. It also helps to connect us to the church catholic, the community of believers in Christ of all times, ancient and modern. Click on the links below for detailed information about the church year and its seasons, festivals, and worship traditions.
Liturgical year. The liturgical year, also known as the church year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.
Distinct liturgical colours may appear in connection with different seasons of the liturgical year. The dates of the festivals vary somewhat between the different churches, though the sequence and logic is largely the same. Liturgical cycle[edit] The western liturgical calendar divides the year into a number of seasons with representative colors.
This image shows a division used by some western churches other than the Catholic Church. After the Protestant Reformation, Anglicans and Lutherans continued to follow the lectionary of the Roman Rite. Biblical calendars[edit] In the earlier calendar, most of the months were simply called by a number (such as "the fifth month").
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