church year
Sacred seasonal cycle
The church year is the annual cycle of seasons and holy days observed in Christian worship, organizing the liturgical calendar around events in Christ's life.
It typically begins with Advent and moves through Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost.
Different denominations follow variations of this pattern: The church year structures our reading of Scripture.
- AdventChristmas preparatory season
- EpiphanyChristian feast, January sixth
- LentChristian fasting season
- Ash WednesdayLent's opening day
- ChristmasWinter nativity celebration
incarnation · fasting · lectionary · Pentecost · vigils · solemnities · resurrection · prayer · almsgiving · Holy Week · Palm Sunday · Good Friday · Easter Sunday · scripture readings · prayer books · seasons · sacraments · candles
- years
- church calendarAdvent, Easter Sunday, Lent, Christmas, Pentecost
- liturgical calendarAdvent, Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost
- Anglican worshipBook of Common Prayer, evensong, morning prayer, prayer book, prayer books
- liturgyDivine Office, missal, lectionary, rite, Tridentine Mass
- Lutheran worshiphymnal, lectionary, service book, pulpit, altar
calendar type
church yearfiscal year
Accounting calendar period
academic year · calendar year · financial year · tax year · school year