Christianity

Catholic Christianity

The Liturgy of the Hours, the Roman calendar, and the Rosary.

In ActivePray

Kept by its own rules

The Liturgy of the Hours, each with its Latin name: the Office of Readings, Morning, Daytime, Evening and Night Prayer, at hours you choose.

The Regina Caeli in Eastertide.

The Roman calendar: its seasons, its solemnities and feasts, and the colour of the day.

The Bible in the Catholic canon, 73 books, the Rosary with its four sets of mysteries, and prayers for meals, illness and grief.

The sign of the cross, with holy water if you keep it by the door, a moment in God’s presence, and an examination of conscience.

All five hours, or Morning and Evening Prayer, the two hinges of the day, with Night Prayer; and the hour of each.

Its year

The holy days

Forty days of prayer, fasting and giving before Easter. The West begins it on Ash Wednesday, the Orthodox on Clean Monday.

The Sunday before Easter, remembering Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, which opens Holy Week.

The Friday of Holy Week, remembering the crucifixion of Jesus.

The resurrection, the oldest and greatest feast. The Orthodox call it Pascha, often on a different date.

Forty days after Easter, Jesus taken up into heaven.

Fifty days after Easter, the Holy Spirit coming upon the apostles: often called the birthday of the Church.

The birth of Jesus on 25 December, which churches on the Julian calendar keep on what is now 7 January.

The showing of Christ to the world: in the West the visit of the Magi, in the East his baptism in the Jordan, called Theophany.

In ActivePray, Catholic Christianity keeps its own prayers at their hours, its own year and its own scripture, with none set above another branch.

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