Advent Liturgical Texts

The Church's year begins on the first Sunday of Advent, a season consisting of four Sundays. It has now lost its former spurious character of being penitential, but it is still a period of preparation. We look forward to the celebration of Christ's first coming and think also about Christ's second coming at the end of time. "It is thus a season of joyful and spiritual expectation" - "tempus devotae ac iucundae exspectationis" ("Normae universales de anno liturgico et de calendario," in Calendarium Romanum, [Civitas Vaticana]: Typis polyglottis Vaticanis, 1969, n. 39). The weekdays from 17-24 December are more directly oriented to preparation for the Nativity, and the second Advent preface is said.

Keywords: Liturgical Year; Sanctoral; Christian Year; Advent; Advent liturgy; Liturgy of the Hours in Advent