Liturgical Year

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In the Liturgical Year, the Church recalls and makes present the saving mysteries of Christ’s life, death, resurrection, and ascension, combining feasts which celebrate these mysteries with seasons which prepare for their worthy celebration and explore their depths of meaning. In this course, we will explore the origins, development, contemporary practice, and theological meaning of the Liturgical Year. The course focus on the chants, readings, and orations for liturgical feasts and seasons in historical and contemporary liturgical books, and will consider the testimony of sermons and homilies for the feasts and seasons from a variety of historical eras.