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My Favorite Time of the Year
Tweet ThisToday (All Saints Day) kicks off my favorite time of the year.
Before I had left the church, or returned, my favorite times of the year were the spring and summer. It likely had a lot to do with the fact that I worked nine summers at a boy scout camp, and the spring was the exciting preparatory time for the summer, which was my personal "Christmas."
Once I returned to the church, I fell in love with the rhythm of the liturgical year from its beginning with the start of Advent, through Christmas, through Ordinary Time to Lent, the Passion - the Triduum - and Easter, through the rest of Ordinary Time.
But the time that really stood out for me was the end of the church year - the end of Ordinary Time. In particular, the time from All Saints Day through the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King (the last Sunday of the liturgical year.)
I love the readings through this part of the year that reflect upon the last things: death and judgement, eternal life and God's Kingdom. I love how the correlate to the dying off of the natural world around us through the fall, heading toward winter. I love the way the branches, getting more and more bare, remind me of the promise and opportunity of new life that comes after the fall.
We start this part of the season today and tomorrow with the liturgical color of white, which we reserve for our great feasts and solemnities. And we end the year with white on the feast of Christ the King.
So I smile as we come around to this part of the year. I love the fall leaves. And I love the march of time from All Saints Day to the reflection upon Christ's eternal Kingship at the end of our year.
Vivat Jesu!
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