What's Your Favorite Liturgical Season?

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What’s your favorite liturgical season and why? My favorite has to be Advent. I never really cared for Advent that much before, but this year I noticed how I love this time period leading up to Christmas. I love all the “preparation” hymns and then when we get to Midnight Mass/Christmas Day, we get to sing all the great, historical carols until the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. My second favorite liturgical season would have to be the Triduum.
 
I love Christmas. I feel like it’s something that brings everyone together, even people from different belief systems or countries. It reminds me how humble the beginnings of Jesus were and brings such a sense of peace. It gives me hope that someday we can all live together in peace and joy. :grouphug:❤️
 
My favorite Liturgical Season is the one the Catholic Church is celebrating. Every Sunday is a high point for me - rather it be Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Ordinary…it is all good.
 
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What’s your favorite liturgical season and why? My favorite has to be Advent. I never really cared for Advent that much before, but this year I noticed how I love this time period leading up to Christmas. I love all the “preparation” hymns and then when we get to Midnight Mass/Christmas Day, we get to sing all the great, historical carols until the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord. My second favorite liturgical season would have to be the Triduum.
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Advent! I started going to mass just before Advent last year, and I had a burning love for God during Advent. The same happened this year…
It’s just that I could probably sit there and conteplate for hours in awe of the fact that all powerful God, became a helpless child, and it reminds me that he will come again one day, which leads me to repent. I love Advent:)
 
While they are all good, mine is Easter…

50 days of feasting from Easter until Pentecost… The Gospel readings during Easter are very moving to me, and “Divine Mercy Sunday” is at the top of my list of Sundays. Easter Sunday being first, followed by the day of Pentecost, then Divine Mercy Sunday…

Christmas is great, but the Church has only given us 12 days to celebrate… Too Short.
 
Christmas and Easter.

Wonderful celebrations … positive and joyous.
 
Lent, Holy Week, Triduum. I like and need that intense focus on self-denial and self-improvement, fasting. I like the liturgies, the veneration of the cross, the stripped altars, covered statues and some of the prayers - “O my people, what have I done to you” and “behold the wood of the cross…”. I go to a church where the entire Passion is beautifully chanted in Latin. It’s moving. I watch Passion of the Christ on Good Friday. In my former choir on Holy Thursday, we sang “I who made the moon and stars now kneel to wash your feet” and I could never finish that line cause I got choked up and teary. I think, how could God love us so much? Next year I hope to also attend more Byzantine liturgies.
 
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Poor ordinary time…
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I voted Ordinary Time. I love the regularity, and the constant parade of saints. Closely followed by Lent and the Triduum. All have their charms I guess. Christmas time is the one that drives me crazy liturgically as a chanter of the Liturgy of the Hours. Too hard with all the feasts, solemnities, octave, etc.
 
I was going to say Advent until I saw the post in bright red letters declaring ALL. As I thought about it, I realized that no one season stands alone and that all find meaning in their connection with the other seasons. The entire year is a season unto itself, like a symphony, and the individual seasons are the parts of that symphony. I love Advent, but what meaning does it actually have without Christmas? What meaning does Christmas have without Lent and Easter? And what do any of these seasons have outside of the context of Ordinary Time? So, I have to agree with that person who wrote ALL in bright, red letters.
 
My favorite is the pre-Lenten season - Septuagesma, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima. A pity you kind of abolished them. 😉
 
I like Lent the best, but I would include Holy Week and the Triduum with it. Penance comes first, and then salvation.

Lent sets the tone for humility and penance, in which I recognize sinfulness and fault. I really miss the Stations of the Cross outside of Lent. Fasting and self-denial reaffirms my faith in God and reminds me that I am certainly capable of denying myself and taking up my cross despite the world. Holy Thursday reminds me of how great and life-saving a gift Christ gave us in the Eucharist. Good Friday reminds me of what our sinfulness cost Our Lord, and, if not for His Love, how much we would deserve to die for it. Finally, Easter reaffirms the hope of salvation that we have in Christ and offers us renewal.
 
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