The church year Lesson 26 of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school: 16 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 Christians do not only tell the story of Jesus once; they walk through it every year, season by season, in what is called the church year. 1 It begins with Advent, four weeks of getting ready, then Christmas for Jesus' birth and Epiphany for the wise men who came from far away. 2 Pancake Day comes just before Lent, forty days of self-control; Holy Week follows Jesus through Palm Sunday, the Last Supper and Good Friday, and Easter Day celebrates him rising to new life. 3 Many churches change the colours of their cloths with the seasons, for example purple for Advent and Lent, white or gold for Christmas and Easter, and green for the ordinary weeks. 4 For a child today the church year is a calendar that teaches: waiting, giving, saying sorry, thanking God at harvest and learning from saints all come round again each year. 5 The church year is the cycle of seasons Christians follow each year to tell the story of Jesus. 6 Advent is the four weeks before Christmas, a time of waiting and getting ready, with Advent wreaths and calendars. 7 Christmas is on 25 December, but many Orthodox churches celebrate it on 7 January because they use an older calendar. 8 Epiphany, on 6 January, remembers the wise men's visit and Jesus being shown to the whole world. 10 Lent is forty days before Easter remembering Jesus' forty days in the desert; it begins on Ash Wednesday. 11 On Ash Wednesday some Christians receive a cross of ashes on their forehead as a sign of saying sorry to God. 12 In Lent many Christians give something up or take something good on. 14 Easter Day is the greatest Christian festival, celebrating Jesus rising from the dead; eggs are a sign of new life. 16 Thanksgiving in North America has a spirit similar to Harvest Festival. 17 St Patrick, St David, St Andrew and St George are the patron saints of Ireland, Wales, Scotland and England; a patron saint is a saint seen as the special friend and helper of a country, and people keep his day. 18 Many churches use purple in Advent and Lent, white or gold at Christmas and Easter, and green in ordinary weeks. ← previous Weddings, funerals and the people of the churchnext → Sunday school, youth groups and charity↑ back to Religion ethics This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/26-the-church-year/