Talk:Liturgical year
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There is a lot that we could do with the Christian liturgical year. It would be nice to have articles for each Sunday — at least each Sunday has set readings in a lot of traditions. It would be good to link together the calendars of various traditions too. I propose starting from the RCL calendar as it is now the most used calendar in the western liturgical tradition, and building from that. Would anyone be interested in setting up a Wikiproject for the liturgical year? Gareth Hughes 09:56, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- See WikiProject Christian liturgical year. Gareth Hughes 10:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] npov issues?
I haven't read a lot of the religion articles, but is it considered suitably neutral to do things like say Easter celebrates the day of "His resurrection"? Why not "easter is the date on which Christians celebrate what they believe to have been Jesus's resurrection"? It couldn't hurt...
- It is factually correct to say that Easter is the celebration of Christ's resurrection. That doesn't make any statement about claims for and against his resurrection; it only says that Easter is when it's celebrated. The statement is verifiably true. Your rewording also makes for a bad read: it's better to tell it as it is. Gareth Hughes 11:56, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] External links
I removed the following per my understanding of WP:EL:
- i s h eaters.com/beingcatholic.html Sacred Time traditional Catholic view of the liturgical year and its customs and traditions
- Monthly Calendar of Solemnities and Feastdays
The first is a subset of a subset of Christian tradition, adequately covered in Traditionalist Catholic (Wikilinks always preferred to weblinks). The second is a Geocities site, and not an obvious authority. - Just zis Guy, you know? [T]/[C] AfD? 22:39, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Easter
Easter Section needs to be expanded and the timing of the feast explained Japeo 05:27, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Number of Ordinary Sundays
When is there ever 34 Ordinary Sundays in the Liturgical Calendar? I thought by definition the Sunday before Christ the King, i.e. two Sundays before Advent Sunday, is the 33rd Sunday of the Year. Is there an example of a year when there were, or will be, 34 Sundays? Arcturus 19:08, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Christ the King is the 34th Sunday and labeled as such in the Lectionary. The rest of the week is the 34th or Last Week. Seasonally, Christ the King is part of Ordinary Time, just like Trinity Sunday, even though it's a fixed Feast. PaulGS 00:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
The sentence stating the number of Sundays in the first bit of Ordinary Time needs to come before the one indicating the variability in the start point, otherwise it is simply inaccurate (there may in fact be no Sundays in the first bit of OT in rites which treat Candlemas as the end of seasonal time – the Church of England follows such a pattern). The figure for the number of Sundays is three to eight for the Roman Rite, four to nine for rites which treat the Baptism of Christ as of Ordinary Time, and zero to five where seasonal time extends to Candlemas (there may be yet more possibilities). If this sentence is to have any value at all, it must be clear which rite it is referring to. Vilĉjo 07:36, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Kingdomtide
I have rewritten and expanded the paragraph on Kingdomtide, hoping to show that the basic idea is very widespread (and not restricted to one kind of tradition). In the process, I removed the statement that the United Methodist Church observed Ordinary Time from September to November as "Kingdomtide", as this seemed very surprising, given that all other denominations that I know of only use that term for the last 3 or 4 weeks. Apologies if I have removed correct information (I did check out their website, but couldn't find anything relevant)! Vilĉjo 22:59, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
