The Church's Liturgical Year

Advent - Four weeks preceding Christmas - Season of joyful waiting for

               the Lord's coming

Christmas - Christmas Eve through the feast of Jesus' baptism (Sunday

               after January 6, Epiphany) - Celebration of the birth of Jesus

               and the birth to new life of his followers

Ordinary Time - Monday after the feast of Jesus' baptism until Ash

               Wednesday - Time of recalling certain important events in

               Jesus' public life

Lent - Ash Wednesday to the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy

               Thursday - Season of penitential preparation for Jesus' death

               and resurrection

Easter Triduum - Last three days of Holy Week, beginning with the Mass

               of the Lord's Supper - Commemoration of Jesus' "passing

               over" from suffering and death to resurrection

Easter - Easter Vigil through Pentecost Sunday - Celebration of the

               resurrection and ascension, and of pentecost, the fulfillment of

               Jesus' promise of the Holy Spirit

Ordinary Time - Monday after Pentecost Sunday to the first Sunday of

               Advent - Time of commemorating the Trinity, the Eucharist,

               and other faith mysteries