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September 13 - September 27, 2019
Every different kind of year demands different strengths of us, provides different kinds of gifts for us, enables different kinds of sensibilities in us. To confuse one kind of year with another, then, is to assume that they are all equally valuable or that we can possibly achieve all the things we need in life—material or spiritual—in any single one of them. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The liturgical year is an adventure in bringing the Christian life to fullness, the heart to alert, the soul to focus. It does not concern itself with the questions of how to make a living. It concerns itself with the questions of how to make a life.
The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again 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. The liturgical year is an adventure in human growth, an exercise in spiritual ripening.
It is, in fact, the life of Jesus that really guides the church through time. It is the life of Jesus that judges the conduct of the time.
First, the liturgical year reminds us as the church what kind of a community we are meant to be.
the liturgical year presents us with the standard of participation in the Christian life that we must bring to the spiritual life both to be called Christian as well as to become Christian.
