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The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

birth.The final coming to which Advent points us is the Second Coming, the Parousia. It is this coming that whets the desire of the adult soul. At the end of time, Jesus has promised and the Christian believes that the Son will return in glory. Then the reign of God for which we strive with every breath will come in all its fullness. This is the coming for which we wait. This is the fullness for which we long. This is what we really mean when the choir sings into the dark, “Maranatha.” “Come, Lord Jesus,
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