Image Credit:Wikipedia “Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize “the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday”.[1][2][3] The result is a flowered cross that is set near the chancel for Eastertide.[4][5] History “The Christian custom…
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The Episcopal Calendar – The Feast Days & Seasons of the Episopal Year
AdventThe Episcopal Church Calendar Begins with Advent. “The first season of the church year, beginning with the fourth Sunday before Christmas and continuing through the day before Christmas. The name is derived from a Latin word for ‘coming.’The season is a time of preparation and expectation for the coming celebration of our Lord’s nativity, and…