In the church calendar we learn the rhythm of life through narrative. Every week we reenact God’s creative work and rest. Every year we retell the story of Jesus. Advent, Christmas, Epiphany: the story of God’s people longing for a Messiah, Christ’s birth, and then, slowly, his revelation as a King to all the world. Lent, Easter, Pentecost: the story of Christ’s temptation, life in a fallen world, suffering, death, resurrection, and ascension, and then the coming of the Holy Spirit and the birth of the church.
