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The Lutheran liturgical calendar is a listing which details the primary annual festivals and events that are celebrated liturgically by various Lutheran churches. The calendars of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) are from the 1978 Lutheran Book of Worship and the calendar of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and ...
15 Martin Luther King Jr., renewer of society, martyr, 1968 (Commemoration) R – ELCA. 16. 17 Anthony of Egypt, renewer of the church, c. 356 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. Pachomius, renewer of the church, 346 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. 18 Confession of Peter (W) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Begins - ELCA.
e. The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, [ 1 ][ 2 ] consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
A medieval manuscript fragment of Finnish origin, c. 1340 –1360, utilized by the Dominican convent at Turku, showing the liturgical calendar for the month of June. The calendar of saints is the traditional Christian method of organizing a liturgical year by associating each day with one or more saints and referring to the day as the feast day or feast of said saint.
The following are Marian festivals celebrated within the Lutheran liturgical calendar: February 2 Presentation of the Lord, usually referred to as "The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of Our Lord" together (sometimes the order of terms is switched for emphasis), also known as Candlemas; March 25 Annunciation of Our Lord
The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer [1] and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, [2] with additions made at recent General Conventions. The veneration of saints in the Episcopal Church (United States) is a continuation of an ancient tradition from the early Church which honors important and ...
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