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I hope this makes sense:
dh recently relinquished a filing cabinet he no longer needs. I have put folders in it for each week of the year, plus extra folders for "lent" "advent" etc.
I want to use the folders for planning for the liturgical year, primarily saint feast days and holy days. I want to organize all of our holy cards, posters, coloring books, etc.
Catholic.org has a list of saints for each day, but there are so many! How do you decide which one to focus on?
AmericanCatholic.org has a calendar with one saint per day.
But what about all the feast days that are movable? Where should I put them in my file cabinet? (e.g. materials for Pentecost? do those go into a separate Easter file?)
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Maybe you could put the moveable feast days into your Advent, Christmas Season, Lent and Easter Season/Pentecost folders? That way, you'd have everything there in one place, and you could change the folders' location in the cabinet slightly each year in accordance with the calendar.
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or just give it it's own seperate folder like you do for Easter.. so you have the big and/or moveable feasts with their own folders and then you have have ones set in by calender as well.
I would do the big and moveable feasts at the front where you can see them easily.. and then the ones by calender together behind them..
I have a Calender with the feast days on it so I would know when to look for the moveable feasts.. and they wouldn't get in the way of the order of the weeks. Since the moveable feast could sometimes be one week or sometimes another.. you would still need both weeks in the weeks folders.
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I've done a similar organization in the past. I had file folders for the big feast days, and then also for seasons.
Most of the movable feasts are connected with liturgical seasons. Holy Family is in the octave of Christmas. Epiphany, Baptism of Lord also would be in Christmas season.
Since so many traditions and such would be attached to say, Pentecost, it would have its own folder. But it would be attached to Easter season. Same with Ash Wednesday, Ascension, Holy Week, etc. would be in the Lenten and Easter folders.
Ordinary Time would include Corpus Christi, Holy Trinity, Sacred Heart, Immaculate Heart,
Most of the movable feasts are connected with the Temporal cycle, whereas most fixed feasts are the Sanctoral cycle.
To tackle the liturgical year, you have to look at the rankings of feast days and decide what is priority, and how to "celebrate" each rank in a different way. You want to illustrate that Sundays and Easter are the highest celebration and not the same as St. John Bosco.
This page has an excellent explanation of all this. ETA: The dates and some terms on this refer to the old calendar, but the cycles apply to the new calendar, too.
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thank you, Nancy, Jodie, and Jennifer. I was having trouble organizing everything in my mind. :) The link above is very helpful.
The temporal cycle enacts the life of our Lord, which is the main story, the central plot in the drama of Redemption.
That's an important point I need to remember... I want to celebrate saint days well, but focusing on the temporal cycle is more important. I can keep that in mind as I organize all my _stuff_.
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JennGM wrote:
This page has an excellent explanation of all this. ETA: The dates and some terms on this refer to the old calendar, but the cycles apply to the new calendar, too. |
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On the Temporal Side.....Under the Christmas Cycle, Item "C" is supposed to be "Time after Epiphany" right? They have it "Time after Pentecost". Would someone confirm this....I'm printing this out for a couple others, and just want to make sure i have it right.
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Wait....that's not right, cuz there is Corpus Christi, SH, Christ the king, etc.....I don't get it....
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Yes, Suzanne, it's all messed up. I didn't notice that before. But there should be a Time After Epiphany, which happens from Baptism of our Lord until Septuagesima.
Then, there should be Time after Pentecost, which would include all the feasts and such that are listed there, but under the Easter Cycle.
For both of these sections, Time after Epiphany and Time after Pentecost that would be Ordinary Time in our current calendar. Make sense?
ETA: General Norms of the Liturgical CAlendar and this table show the hierarchy of feasts.
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