Below is the American Unitarian Reform liturgical calendar for the Christmas Season. Since this season is not fixed, the ultimate Thursdays for the first two dozenals are not identified on the calendar. The last dozenal, the Twelve Days of Christmas, has no ultimate Thursday as such. Advent Eve / Feast of Andrew – (Nov 30) [...]
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AUR Christmas Calendar
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged advent, christmas, epiphany, liturgical calendar, new year's day, new year's eve, new year's resolution, virgin of guadalupe on 2 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The First Day of Gold: Advent & Annunciation
Posted in holidays, idiom, tagged advent, annunciation, christmas, mary, our lady of guadalupe, st. eligius on 1 December 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Reform celebrates the beginning of the Christmas Season with Advent/Annunciation on December 1st. This differs significantly from other Christian traditions, which celebrate Advent four Sundays before Christmas, and celebrate the Annunciation (the day on which Mary was told by the Angel Gabriel that she would conceive Jesus) on 25 March, a materialist nine months [...]
Happy St. Andrew’s
Posted in holidays, tagged advent, christian, st. andrew, unitarian, unitarian reform on 30 November 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Andrew is not the most well-known Apostle. However, he was the first disciple of Jesus Christ. He was also the brother of Simon who later became St. Peter, the Rock of the Church. In fact, it was Andrew who introduced Simon to Jesus. Andrew was also a fisherman (as was Simon Peter) and it was through interaction with [...]
Liturgical Calendar Graphic Added
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged advent, ascension, carnival, christian, christmas, declaration of independence, easter, holidays, independence day, liturgical calendar, pentecost, thanksgiving, unitarian on 22 December 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A new graphic depicting the American Unitarian Reform liturgical calendar has been added to AUR’s LC page. The chart shows the 10-Day Gap, and the rough dates for the Four Great Thursdays: Harvest (or Thanksgiving) Thursday, Garden (or Gethsemane) Thursday, Ascension Thursday, and Declaration Thursday. Please note, of course, that the seasons from Carnival through Pentecost can vary broadly from [...]
Andrew, Advent, and Annunciation
Posted in holidays, Thursday worship, tagged advent, annunciation, christ, christian, christianity, christmas, creche, disciple, jesus, nativity scene, st. andrew, unitarian, unitarianism on 29 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Reform celebrates the transition from November to December with the feast of St. Andrew on November 30th (honoring the first disciple of Jesus) and Advent/Annunciation on December 1st. This differs significantly from other Christian traditions, which celebrate Advent four Sundays before Christmas, and celebrate the Annunciation (the day on which Mary was told by [...]
Liturgical Calendar Added as a Page
Posted in holidays, tagged advent, all hallows, all saints, calendar, christmas, liturgical, thanksgiving on 18 November 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than republishing the liturgical calendar posts from last year as each holiday approaches, we are going to combine them all as a single page, title appropriately “Liturgical Calendar.” So far the Calendar includes the All Hallows, Thanksgiving (one of the Four Great Thursdays), Advent, Christmas, and Interval seasons.
