David Ancell / Saturday April 30, 2022
I’m thinking of something that God gave me to think about years ago. The two biggest feast days in the Church year are Christmas and Easter. The Church, in her wisdom, makes sure we know they are coming and to be prepared to celebrate them to the fullest extent if we will.
I’m thinking of what I’d miss if I belonged to a Protestant church that had neither Advent nor Lent nor a season of Easter or Christmas. Easter could just suddenly come upon me, and then it would be over the next day. It could easily pass me by without preparation or without a chance to savor the feast.
In the Catholic Church, we can enter into the season of Advent to prepare for Christmas and Lent to prepare for Easter. These days won’t just suddenly happen upon us. We won’t just be going about our normal, everyday business only to have a sudden realization that “Oh, it’s Easter.” We prepare for it, and we long for it. It doesn’t end once the day is over.
We have an eight day octave for both Christmas and Easter and a season to follow. We celebrate Christmas for maybe a couple of weeks after Christmas Day (it varies a bit each year), and we have fifty days of Easter after our forty days of Lent, concluding with Pentecost, the “birthday” of the Church. This gives us a great opportunity to enter in to the celebration of the very reason for our hope.
Category: Cathechesis, Catholic
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