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Introduction
Here, you can find brief descriptions of, and resources for:
Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost as well as
Harvest thanksgiving, All Saints, Remembrance, Christ the King, New Year: Watchnight, Candlemas. Click on the links to the right for more...
You can also click at the foot of every page of this website for Lectionary readings that will be appropriate for the season.
For Special Sundays, click here
Background
By AD300, Christian missionaries in Eastern Europe had begun to give Christian significance to festivals that people were already celebrating. With the conversion of the Roman emperor Constantine in AD312, Christianity became a tolerated religion and its seasons and festivals could be celebrated more openly. One significant difference was that every Sunday became a public holiday. From then until about AD600, the Christian Church formed a pattern of seasons and festivals that is still in use today.
Click any of the titles to learn more
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