The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series
Ebook
A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
What may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days, or liturgical seasons, this book explains their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live and think as Jesus did.
And it proposes to help us to year after year immerse ourselves into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually, we become what we say we are—followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening.
A volume in the eight book classic series, The Ancient Practices, with a foreword by Phyllis Tickle, General Editor.
Top Highlights
“The real power of the liturgical year is its spiritual capacity to touch and plumb the depths of the human experience, to stir the human heart. By walking the way of the life of Jesus, by moving into the experience of Jesus, we discover the meaning of our own experiences, the undercurrent of our own emotions, the struggle it takes to go on walking the way.” (source)
“Advent asks the question, what is it for which you are spending your life? What is the star you are following now? And where is that star in its present radiance in your life leading you? Is it a place that is really comprehensive enough to equal the breadth of the human soul?” (source)
“is a period that focuses us on joy.We prepare ourselves to understand the full adult meaning of the feast.” (source)
“The final coming to which Advent points us is the Second Coming, the Parousia.” (source)
Product Details
- Title : The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series
- Authors:
- Chittister, Joan
- Tickle, Phyllis
- Publisher: Thomas Nelson
- Publication Date: 2010
- ISBN: 9781418580735