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Catholics celebrate Advent as a way of preparing for the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or Christmas. Just as the Christmas season is an important part of the church year, the preparation period leading up to it is also. The preparation for Christmas that the Church has in mind for its members during Advent is not about buying and wrapping presents, putting up Christmas decorations, attending parties, or making travel plans. Advent prepration is to prepare one's spirit for the coming of the Christ Child, to prepare one's heart to make Him welcome when he arrives.
The two major feasts in the church year are Christmas and Easter. Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, and Easter commemorates his resurrection from the dead. These feasts are significant events in Christianity and are widely celebrated by Christians around the world.
In the Catholic Church, the first Sunday of Advent is the beginning of the Church year, which is the first of the four Sundays before Christmas, usually around Thanksgiving in the United States.
Christmas and Christmas Eve. Easter is not based on the gregorian calendar.
In the Roman liturgical calendar, the time that is not part of Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter, is referred to as "Time throughout the Year", in other words time that is NOT a specific Church season. Time throughout the Year is translated as "Ordinary Time" in the English Breviary. In other words it is just yearly time that is not a specific holy season.
The Feast of St Stephen is just after Christmas. 26th of December in the Western Church and 27th of December in the Eastern Church. There is no specific year, its celebrated every year.
yes pentecost is the last season in the church year.
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In the northern hemisphere Christmas is in winter. In the southern hemisphere, it is in summer.
Usually to Hogmanay (New Year) parties.
The church year starts on the First Sunday in Advent. The date can be calculated each year by counting four Sundays back from Christmas, so if Christmas is on a Monday the liturgical year started on December 3 and if Christmas is on a Sunday the liturgical year started on November 27.
Not only can they. THEY DO AND SHOULD. The Catholic Church is the first Christian Church, and was the Church that STARTED Christmas celebrations. OF COURSE they celebrate Christmas!