Practicing Catholics
Liturgical Year
Liturgical Colors
Holy Days
Sunday
100
Precepts of the Church describing what is expected of all practicing Catholics.
What are laws of the Church?
100
Four weeks before Christmas; a time for preparation and anticipation.
What is Advent?
100
Jesus' resurrection to Pentecost Sunday, 50n days after Easter.
What is Easter Season?
100
Jesus' Birth, the Nativity of the Lord, The Incarnation.
What is Christmas?
100
December 8th, Mary was Jesus' first disciple.
What is Immaculate Conception?
200
All Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation.
What is attend Mass?
200
December 25th to the baptism of our Lord in earl January.
What is the Christmas season?
200
Ordinary Time.
What is Green?
200
Mary, The Mother of our God, our greatest Saint.
What is January 1st?
200
Each new cycle (there are 3 annual cycles), new liturgical year, begins on the First Sunday. T
What is Advent?
300
Contribute financially to the support of the Church.
What is Tithe?
300
Time between Christmas and Lent, time between Easter and the following Advent; priests wear green vestments.
What is Ordinary Time?
300
Christmas and Easter Seasons, funerals and saints who were not martyred.
What is White?
300
40 Days after Easter, Jesus returns to His Father in Heaven.
What is Ascension Thursday?
300
Gospels of St. Matthew are read through the liturgical year.
What is Cycle A?
400
Share in the Church's mission for spreading the Good News to the world.
What is Evangelization?
400
Beginning with Ash Wednesday and going through Holy Thursday; a time of fasting, prayer and good works.
What is Lent?
400
Advent and Lent.
What is Purple?
400
August 15th, Mary's body and soul were raised up to Heaven
What is Assumption of Mary?
400
Gospels of St. Mark and St. John are read.
What is Cycle B?
500
Catholics of ages 18 - 59 eat only three small meals a day on Ash Wednesday and all Fridays of Lent and abstain from any meat.
What is Fasting?
500
Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Vigil.
What is the Triduum?
500
Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Pentecost and Saints who were martyred.
What is Red?
500
November 1st, Unnamed Saints are honored.
What is All Saints' Day?
500
Gospels of St. Luke are read during the Liturgical year. (we are currently in cycle C).
What is Cycle C?
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