The liturgical year begins with Advent and the Christmas season. Lent is a period of fasting and preparation for the important feast we celebrate at Easter, namely the resurrection of Jesus. Eastertide ends after Ascension, at Pentecost.
In ‘ordinary time’ (the remainder of the liturgical year) we are invited to learn to live more and more like God’s children, after we have celebrated the major feast-days focusing on Jesus. There are also feasts-days honouring Mary, the saints and the angels. On the last Sunday of the liturgical year, we celebrate the feast of Christ the King. God’s rule is based not so much on laws, but rather on love.
