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The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series

Joan D. Chittister

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
This book sets out to open what may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days or liturgical seasons to their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live as Jesus lived and to think as Jesus thought.
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. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening."

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Release: November 01, 2009

ISBN: 0849901197

ISBN 13: 9780849901195

The Liturgical Year: The Spiraling Adventure of the Spiritual Life - The Ancient Practices Series

Joan D. Chittister

3.7/5 ( ratings)

A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time.
The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.
This book sets out to open what may at first seem to be simply an arbitrary arrangement of ancient holy days or liturgical seasons to their essential relationship to one another and their ongoing meaning to us today. It is an excursion into life from the Christian perspective, from the viewpoint of those who set out not only to follow Jesus but to live as Jesus lived and to think as Jesus thought.
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. It is an adventure in human growth; it is an exercise in spiritual ripening."

Language: English

Pages: 240

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Release: November 01, 2009

ISBN: 0849901197

ISBN 13: 9780849901195

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