Practicing the liturgical calendar is like participating in immersive theater. Through fasting, feasting, rites, and rituals, ... “If it’s a symbol, to hell with it. ...

The Catholic calendar has several ways to divide the Christmas season. The Church’s Western liturgical tradition sees Christmas as an octave , an eight-day celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

The feast of Mary, Mother of the Church was inserted into the General Roman Calendar by Pope Francis in 2018, but has its roots in the reform of the liturgical calendar in 1969 and the Jubilee ...