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Church year

Here are entered works on the Christian festivals with their cycles, as making up the Christian or church year. Works on the origin of festivals and fasts are entered under Fasts and feasts. Works containing computations for finding these days are entered under Church calendar.

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• Church calendar
• Fasts and feasts
• Worship

• Church year -- Calendars
• Church year -- Criticism and interpretation
• Church year -- Early works to 1800
• Church year -- Greece
• Church year -- History
• Church year -- Hymns
• Church year -- Italy
• Church year -- Miscellanea
• Church year -- Poetry
• Church year -- Poetry. from old catalog
• Church year -- Prayers and devotions
• Church year -- Russia
• Church year -- Study and teaching
• Advent
• All Saints' Day
• All Souls' Day
• Ascension Day
• Candlemas
• Christmas
• Church year meditations
• Church year sermons
• Corpus Christi Festival
• Easter
• Eastertide
• Epiphany season
• Feast of Jesus Christ the King
• Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Feast of the Cross
• Feast of the Immaculate Conception
• Feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
• Feast of the Sacred Heart
• Feast of the Transfiguration
• Lent
• Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Feasts
• Michaelmas
• Pentecost Festival
• Pentecost season
• Reformation Festival
• Shrove Tuesday
• Visitation Festival

• Christian year
• Ecclesiastical year
• Heortology
• Liturgical year
• Year, Church

• Our Children's Year of Grace (fifth edition, 1955), by Therese Mueller (HTML at EWTN)
• Annus Ecclesiasticus Graeco-Slavicus, Editus Anno Millenario Sanctorum Cyrilli et Methodii, Slavice Geatis Apostolorum (in Latin; Brussels: Typ. Henrici Goemaere, 1863), by I. Martynov
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  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Hidden Side of Christian Festivals (Los Angeles et al.: St. Alban Press, 1920), by C. W. Leadbeater
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• Die Logik des christlichen Kirchenjahres : ein Beitrag zu dessen richtigem Verständnisse (Oehmigke, 1860), by Ph. L. Werner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das Jahr und seine Feste : die Feste und Feiertage des Jahres, ihre Entstehung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung in Geschichte, Sage, Sitte und Gebrauch (J.E.G. Wegner, 1917), by Johann Heinrich Albers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Christian year; its pur;ose and its history. (Longmans, Green and Co., 1926), by Walker Gwynne (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'année liturgique (H. Oudin, 1889), by Catholic Church and Prosper Guéranger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Kirchenjahr; eine Erklärung der heiligen Zeiten, Feste und Feierlichkeiten der katholischen Kirche. (Herder, 1911), by Karl Müller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Schönheit der Katholischen Kirche, dargestellt in ihren äusseren Gebräuchen in und ausser dem Gottesdienste für das Christenvolk. (F. Kirchleim, 1858), by Gregorius Rippel and Heinrich Himioben (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Schönheit der Katholischen Kirche, dargestellt in ihren äusseren Gebräuchen in und ausser dem Gottesdienste für das Christenvolk. (Kirchheim, 1844), by Gregorius Rippel and Heinrich Himioben (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of the Christian year (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1945), by George Miles Gibson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian year. (Muhlenberg Press, 1957), by Edward Traill Horn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das christliche Kirchenjahr erklärt und dessen praktische Einfüng in's Leben (Franz Kirchheim, 1871), by Leopold Kist (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das katholische Kirchenjahr für Schule und Haus (Kreuzer Bro's. ;, 1872), by Andreas Petz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die heiligen Zeiten und Feste nach ihrer Geschichte und Feier in der katholischen Kirche (C.G. Kunze, 1863), by Markus Adam Nickel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The cloud of witness : a daily sequence of great thoughts from many minds following the Christian seasons (H. Frowde, 1891), by Edith Mary Gell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The parish hymn book for the church, school, and home : with appropriate tunes. (F. Warne, 1867), by D. T. Barry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das heilige Jahr der Kirche ... (J.J. Beaufort, 1869), by Paul Bechem (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prayers for the Christian year and for special occasions (Thomas Whittaker, 1897), by Charles R. Baker (page images at HathiTrust)
• De festis Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (apud J. Manfrè, 1766), by Pope Benedict XIV (page images at HathiTrust)
• The moveable feasts, fasts and other annual observances of the Catholic Church. (J. Morris, 1775), by Alban Butler (page images at HathiTrust)
• The calendar of the prayer-book illustrated : with an appendix of the chief Christian emblems, from early and medieval monuments. (James Parker, 1867) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the services : designed as an introduction to the liturgy, and an aid to its devout use (F. D. Harriman, agent, 1861), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts for the Christian seasons (J.H. and J. Parker, 1864), by James Russell Woodford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The festivals and fasts of the church. A series of familiar conversations between a godmother and child ... (Gen. Prot. Epis. S. S. Union, 1841) (page images at HathiTrust)
• One hundred and sixteen sermons, preached out of the first lessons at morning and evening prayer, for all Sundays in the year. (S. Crowder and H. Woodgate, 1755), by William Reading (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heortologie, oder, die geschichtliche Entwicklung des Kirchjahres und der Heiligenfeste : von den ältesten Zeiten bis zur Gegenwart (Herder, 1911), by K. A. Heinrich Kellner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts on the services; designed as an introduction to the liturgy, and an aid to its devout use. (J.B. Lippincott, 1890), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the services; designed as an introduction to the liturgy, and an aid to its devout use. (J.Robinson, 1871), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Child's Christian year : hymns for every Sunday and holy-day, compiled for the use of parochial schools. (Philadelphia : Lea and Blanchard, 1842., 1842), by Frances Mary Yonge, John Keble, and Benson Collection of Hymnals and Hymnology (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Festkalendar in Bildern und Liedern : geistlich und weltlich (Herder, 1887), by Franz Pocci and Guido Görres (page images at HathiTrust)
• A companion for the festivals and fasts of the Church of England : with collects and prayers for each solemnity (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1837), by Robert Nelson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the services : designed as an introduction to the liturgy, and an aid to its devout use (Lippincott, 1872), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts for the Christian seasons : 2d series. (J.H. Parker, 1850), by John Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts for the Christian seasons. (J.H. and J. Parker, 1858), by John Armstrong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Meditations in season on the elements of Christian philosophy (Oxford university press, 1938), by Herbert W. Schneider (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The ecclesiastical year for Catholic schools and institutions. (The M. H. Wiltzius co., 1903), by Andreas Petz and Mary Alphonsa Corry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katholische Handpostille. Kurze Auslegung aller Sonn- und festtäglichen Episteln und Evangelien, Darlegung der daraus folgenden glaubens- und sittenlehren, Erklärung der hl. messe und der wichtigsten Kirchengebräuche, Anleitung zum gebete in der Familie. Billigste Volksausgabe, bearbeitet nach der 65. Auflage (Benziger & Co., 1896), by Leonard Goffiné and Theodosius Florentini (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Christkatolisches Unterrichts- und Erbauungsbuch] (s.n., in the 19th century), by Leonard Goffine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Unison of the liturgy; being ... the harmony of the subject contained in the collect for each of the Sundays and holidays in the year, with the epistle, gospel and the lessons for that day. (Dana, 1856), by Archer Gifford (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daily steps towards heaven, or, Practical thoughts on the Gospel history : and especially on the life and teaching of our Lord Jesus Christ : for every day in the year, according to the Christian seasons : with titles and characters of Christ : and a harmony of the four gospels. (J.H. and James Parker, 1860), by Arthur Henry Dyke Acland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Geist des Christenthums : dargestellt in den heiligen Zeiten in den heiligen Handlungen und in der heiligen Kunst (F. Kupferberg, 1843), by Franz Anton Staudenmaier (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'année liturgique (H. Oudin et Cie, 1800), by Prosper Guéranger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'année liturgique. (H. Oudin, 1868), by Prosper Guéranger, Lucien Fromage, and Catholic Church (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das kirchenjahr des christlichen morgen- und abendlandes, mit seinen festen, fasten und bibellectionen historisch dargestellt. (G.W.F. Müller, 1860), by Heinrich Alt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tracts for the Christian seasons ... (J. H. Parker;, 1849) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Het christelijk kerkjaar : eene handleiding tot de evangelieprediking op de hooge feesten, de vast terugkeerende heilige tijden en gedenkdagen, en bij andere plegtige gelegenheden in de Hervormde Kerk (J.B. Wolters, 1862), by Johannes Krull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays (Funk & Wagnalls, 1902), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The liturgical year (J. Duffy, 1867), by Prosper Guéranger, James Laurence Shepherd, and Lucien Fromage (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sammlung erbaulicher Predigten, auf alle Sonn- und Festags-Evangelia wie auch über einige Busstexte von verschiedenen geistreichen evangelisch-lutherischen Lehrern gehalten, nebst einem Anhang: etlicher Reden und Predigten auf besondere Fälle gerichtet. (Im Verlag der Buchhandlung der Realschule, 1853) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die heiligen Zeiten und Feste nach ihrer Geschichte und Feier in der katholischen Kirche. (C.G. Kunze, 1836), by Markus Adam Nickel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lobsinge dem Herrn meine Seele ... (G. Wigand, 1856), by Wilhelm Mueller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Joys and sorrows of the ecclesiastical year (H. Hooker, 1854), by Maria G. Milward (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les vies des saints, et l'histoire des festes et des mystères de l'église. Composées sur ce qui nous est resté de plus autentique, de plus asseuré & de mieux établi dans leur culte; réduites selon les calendriers & les martyrologes, &c. (J. de Nully, 1710), by Adrien Baillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lives of saints, collected from authentick records, of church history. With a full account of the other festivals throughout the year. The whole interspersed with suitable reflections ... To which is prefix'd a treatise on the moveable feasts and fasts of the church. (Meighan, 1729), by Charles Fell and Adrien Baillet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pastirska poučenija pravoslavnim hristijanima na sve nedelji prazdniki preko godine. (Knʹigopečatnʹi͡a Kn͡iažestva Srbskog, 1860) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The liturgical year (Burns, Oates & Washbourne, 1908), by Prosper Guéranger and Lucien Fromage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Thoughts on the services : designed as an introducion to the liturgy and an aid to its devout use (General Protestant Episcopal S.S. Union and Church Book Society, 1865), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian year : thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year. (Oxford ; and 377, Strand, London : John Henry and James Parker, MDCCCLIX [1859], 1859), by John Keble, Owen Jones, and J.H. and J. Parker (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pentecost (W. Briggs;, 1891), by Ralph C. Horner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Circulaire au clergé concernant les 40 heures, l'ordo, l'indulgence des chapelets, l'année religieuse, etc. (I. Bourget?, 1861), by Eglise catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Evêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church seasons (Hart, 1892), by P. H. Dixon (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church year studies for the Sundays, sacred seasons and saints' days of the Christian year (H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1908), by W. J. Armitage (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mandement de Monseigneur l'évêque de St. Hyacinthe publiant la lettre encyclique de N.S.P. le pape, du 8 décembre dernier, et le résumé des principales erreurs de notre temps, et annonç ant la célé bration d'un jubilé durant la présente année .. (s.n., 1865), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Saint-Hyacinthe Évêque (1860- 1865 : Larocque) and Charles Larocque (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mandement de Monseigneur l'évêque de Montréal annonçant la fin du jubilé et établissant la communion réparatrice pour en perpétuer le souvenir et en conserver les grâces (s.n., 1875), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Montréal. Évêque (1840-1876 : Bourget) and Ignace Bourget (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heilige Augen- und Gemüths-Lust : vorstellend alle sonn- fest- und feyrtägliche nicht nur Evangelien, sondern auch Epistelen und Lectionen, jene historisch, diese auch emblemmatisch, und mit curieusen Einfassungen : in vielen Kupffer-Stücken von frembder und gantz neuer Inventionem : so wohl zur Kunst-Ubung [sic] als Unterhaltung Gottseeliger Betrachtungen, wie auch Vermehrung der Kupffer-Bibelen und Ausszierung aller christlichen Postillen dienlich. (Verferiget und heraussgegeben von Johann Ulrich Krausen ..., 1706), by Johann Ulrich Krauss (page images at HathiTrust)
• The church year and kalendar (University Press ;, 1910), by John Dowden (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The liturgical year : an explanation of the origin, history & significance of the festival days & fasting days of the English Church (A.R. Mowbray, 1907), by Vernon Staley (page images at HathiTrust)
• The liturgical year (Burns & Oates;, 1897), by Prosper Guéranger, Laurence Shepherd, and Stanbrook Abbey (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Het christelijk kerkjaar; eene handleiding tot de evangelieprediking op de hooge feesten, de vast terugkeerende heilige tijden en gedenkdagen, en bij andere plechtige gelegenheden in de Hervormde Kerk. (J. Campen, 1880), by Johannes Krull (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sunday reflections for the church year (F.H. Revell, 1912), by Anna Austen McCulloh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heortologie, oder, das Kirchenjahr und die Heiligenfeste in ihrer geschichtlichen Entwicklung (Herder, 1901), by K. A. Heinrich Kellner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The story of the Christian year : to be used either as a special course of half-a-year or in conjunction with catechism or prayer book courses (For the New York Sunday school commission by the Young Churchmen co., 1907), by Episcopal Church. Diocese of New York. Sunday School Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Christian year its purpose and its history (Longmans, Green, 1915), by Walker Gwynne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der geist des christenthums, dargestellt in den heiligen zeiten, in den heiligen handlungen und in der heiligen kunst. (F. Kupferberg, 1838), by Franz Anton Staudenmaier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rok polski w życiu, tradycyi i pieśni (Nakł. Autora, Księgarnia Ludwika Biernackiego i Spółki, 1904), by Zygmunt Gloger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kalendarium ecclesiae Alexandrinae Coptorum ex "Kalendario utriusque ecclesiae". (Oeniponte, typis et sumptibus Rauch, 1897), by Nicolaus Nilles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kalendarium Christianorum S. Thomae ritus syro-chaldaici in Malabaria ex "Kalendario utrisque ecclesiae". (Oeniponte, typis et sumptibus Rauch, 1897), by Nicolaus Nilles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch fu r Prediger : zur praktischen Behandlung der Sonn- und Festta glichen Evangelien (Heinrichshofen, 1818), by Johann Heinrich Fritsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der biblische Liturg in allen seinen Amtsverrichtungen : nebst einer Abhandlung über die Stellung des Liturgen im neunzehnten Jahrhunderte, im Allgemeinen, und über den Gebrauch dieses biblischen Liturgen insbesondere (W. Heinrichshofen, 1836), by Johann Jacob Kromm (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterricht über den ursprung und die benennung aller sonn = fest- und anderer tage durchs ganze jahr; nebst beschreibung der an den- selben üblichen gebräuche und gervohnheiten ... (Gebrüder Schumann, 1817), by J. G. Böhme (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts on the services; designed as an introduction to the liturgy, and an aid to its devout use. (Lippincott, 1884), by A. Cleveland Coxe (page images at HathiTrust)
• Holy-days and holidays : a treasury of historical material, sermons in full and in brief, suggestive thoughts, and poetry, relating to holy days and holidays (Gale Research Company, 1990), by Edward Mark Deems (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Growing up in Christ : Sundays after Pentecost (Paulist Press, 1962), by Mary Perkins Ryan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Simboli festivi : per le solennità principali di Christo nostro signore (Apresso Nicolò Pezzana ..., 1698), by Carlo Labia, Nicolò Pezzana, Domenico Uberti, Gregorio Lazzarini, and Isabella Piccini (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'Anno ecclesiastico e le feste dei santi in Genova nel loro svolgimento storico (Nella sede della Società ligure di storia patria, 1917), by Domenico Cambiaso (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The church year : studies in the introits, collects, epistles and gospels (Philadelphia, Pa. : The United Luthern publication house, 1924., 1924), by Paul Zeller Strodach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Unterrichts- und Erbauungsbuch (M.H. Wiltzius, 1892), by Leonard Goffiné and Wilhelm Auer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kirchlichen Quatember; ihr Enttehung, Entwicklung und Bedeutung in liturgischer, rechtlicher und kulturhistorischer Hinsicht. (J.J. Lentnerschen, 1914), by Ludwig Fischer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Christian year : thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year (J. Finch, 1902), by John Keble (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christian year; or, Hymns and poems for the holy days and festivals of the church. (London : B.M. Pickering, 1868., 1868), by Thomas Ken (page images at HathiTrust)
• The holy days of the church (New York : Gen. Prot. Episcopal Sunday School Union and Church Book Society, 1861., 1861), by Mary E. Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Saints & festivals : a cycle of the year for young people (Benziger Brothers, 1913), by Mother Salome and Gabriel Pippet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Heortology : A history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day, by K. A. Heinrich Kellner (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Church Year and Kalendar, by John Dowden, ed. by J. H. Srawley and H. B. Sweet (Gutenberg ebook)
• A just and sober vindication of the observations upon the thirtieth of January, and twenty ninth of May by J.G.G. (London : Printed, and are to be sold by Ric. Baldwin, 1694), by J. Gailhard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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