YOUCAT Question n. 186 - Part III. What is the liturgical year (the Church year)?
(Youcat answer - repeated) The
liturgical year, or the Church year, superimposes the mysteries of the life of
Christ—from his Incarnation to his second coming in glory—on the normal course
of the year. The liturgical year begins with Advent, the time of waiting for
the Lord, and has its first high point in the Christmas season and its second,
even greater climax in the celebration of the redemptive suffering, death, and
Resurrection of Christ at Easter. The Easter season ends with the feast of Pentecost,
the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Church. The liturgical year is repeatedly interrupted by feasts of Mary and the saints,
in which the Church praises God’s grace, which has led mankind to salvation.
A deepening through CCC
(CCC
1172) "In celebrating this annual cycle of the mysteries of Christ, Holy
Church honors the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, with a special love. She is
inseparably linked with the saving work of her Son. In her the Church admires
and exalts the most excellent fruit of redemption and joyfully contemplates, as
in a faultless image, that which she herself desires and hopes wholly to
be" (SC 103).
Reflecting and meditating
(CCC Comment)
(CCC 1173) When the Church keeps the memorials of martyrs and other saints during the annual cycle, she proclaims the Paschal mystery in those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ. She proposes them to the faithful as examples who draw all men to the Father through Christ, and through their merits she begs for God's favors" (SC 104; cf. SC 108, 111).
(CCC 1173) When the Church keeps the memorials of martyrs and other saints during the annual cycle, she proclaims the Paschal mystery in those "who have suffered and have been glorified with Christ. She proposes them to the faithful as examples who draw all men to the Father through Christ, and through their merits she begs for God's favors" (SC 104; cf. SC 108, 111).
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