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Living the Christian Year
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Infuse your days with meaning.You are part of a larger Story. And the One who began the Story is at work today, in your life, in the midst of your meetings and bills and family activities that make the days rush by and blur together. In these pages Bobby Gross opens to you--and opens you to--the liturgical year, helping you inhabit God's Story every day.
Whether you're familiar or unfamiliar with following the liturgical year, this book makes it easy to do, offering here the significance and history of each season, ideas for living out God's Story inyour own life, and devotions that follow the church calendar for each day of the year."The power that overshadowed Mary and raised Jesus from the dead also guarantees the final redemption of all things in him; that same power is at work in us now," Gross writes. "Keeping liturgical time, making it sacred, opens us further to this power as, year after year, we rehearse the Story of God--remembering with gratitude, anticipating with hope--and over time live more deeply the Story of our lives."
Foreword by Lauren Winner
1 Discovering Sacred Time
The Cycle of Light
2 Advent: Enlarged in the Waiting
Devotions in Advent
3 Christmas: Enriches in the Giving
Devotions in Christmas
4 Epiphany: Enlightened in the Telling
Devotions in Epiphany
The Cycle of Life
5 Lent: Humblen in the Turning
Devotions in Lent
6 The Paschal Triduum: Healed in the Dying
Devotions in the PaschalTriduum
7 Easter: Heartened in the Rising
Devotions in Easter
Cycles of Love
8 Ordinary Time: Empowered in the Pouring Out
Devotions in Ordinary Time: World and Church
Devotions in Ordinary Time: Neighbor and Self
Devotions in Ordinary Time: Work and Rest
Epilogue: Fill Circle Once Again
Appendix: Dates for the Christian Year Through 2025
Additional Resources
Notes