Learn how to use the Christian calendar to focus your year on Christ!
As Protestants, we have lost much of the richness of history and the focus of a yearly rhythm of faith that comes from the liturgy of the early church as they walked through the life of Jesus and remembered the early saints.
We are missing out on a calendar year rooted and grounded in the Bible. It is a deep loss indeed, and one I pray we, as Protestant families, begin to rectify!
We need the Gospel preached to ourselves and our families over and over again, and Celebrating the Church Year does just that!
How to use Celebrating the Church Year
The Liturgical or Christian Calendar begins with Advent, and that's where this guide begins as well. But you can literally start right where you are. Simply go to that section of the Guide, and dive in, picking and choosing the ideas and celebrations you feel you can easily implement with your family.
Next year, add a bit more, and eventually you will have built a year filled with a faith-based focus!
This guide will continue to be expanded and updated as our own family learns more and celebrates more, so you will always have a smorgasbord of resources to help you celebrate the church year!
Celebrations
A treasure trove of ideas for building rich and meaningful traditions that focus on Jesus' life, death, and resurrection and the early church!
Activities
Fun crafts and activities that make the Church year come to life for your family!
Recipes
Delicious recipes you can use to celebrate the holidays and seasons with your family!
Example Curriculum
- Introduction to Lent
- Lenten Devotionals & Resources
- Fat Tuesday / Shrove Tuesday (day before Lent)
- Ash Wednesday
- Lent
- Ideas for Celebrating Lent
- Special Days to Celebrate During Lent
- St. Patrick's Day - Mar 17
- Joseph the Carpenter Day - Mar 19
- First Day of Spring
- Announcement of Christ - Mar 25
- Lazarus Saturday - Saturday before Palm Sunday
- Introduction to Ordinary Time 2
- Special Days to Celebrate During Ordinary Time 2
- Trinity Sunday - Sunday after Pentecost
- Corpus Christi - Thursday after Trinity Sunday
- Nativity of John the Baptist - June 24
- Transfiguration - August 6
- The Sorrows of Mary, the mother of Jesus - September 15
- St. Matthew's Day - September 21
- Michaelmas - September 29
- St. Luke's Day - October 18
- Reformation Day - October 31
- All Saints Day - November 1
- Thanksgiving - November 28, 2024
- Christ the King Sunday - Sunday before Advent
- St. Andrew's Day - November 30