
The Church Year and Kalendar
by John Dowden
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1910]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (202)
- THE CHURCH YEAR AND KALENDAR
- NOTE BY THE EDITORS
- CONTENTS
- PLATES
- INTRODUCTION
- A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER I THE WEEK
- The Week and the Lord’s Day.
- The Sabbath (Saturday).
- Wednesday and Friday.
- CHAPTER II DAYS OF THE MARTYRS
- CHAPTER III THE LORD’S NATIVITY: THE EPIPHANY: THE FESTIVALS WHICH IN EARLY TIMES FOLLOWED IMMEDIATELY ON THE NATIVITY
- The festivals of the days immediately following Christmas.
- CHAPTER IV OTHER COMMEMORATIONS OF EVENTS IN THE LORD’S LIFE. PENTECOST
- CHAPTER V FESTIVALS OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN
- I. Western Kalendars.
- II. The Orthodox Church of the East.
- CHAPTER VI FESTIVALS OF THE APOSTLES, THE EVANGELISTS, AND OF OTHER PERSONS NAMED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. OCTAVES AND VIGILS
- CHAPTER VII SEASONS OF PREPARATION AND PENITENCE
- Advent
- The Fast preceding Easter (Lent)
- Other Special Times of Fasting
- I. Western Church—The three fasts called ‘Quadragesima’; Rogation Days; the Four Seasons.
- II. Eastern Churches.
- CHAPTER VIII WESTERN MEDIAEVAL KALENDARS: MARTYROLOGIES
- CHAPTER IX EASTER AND THE MOVEABLE COMMEMORATIONS
- I. Paschal Controversies prior to the Council of Nicaea.
- II. The Council of Nicaea and the Easter Controversy.
- The Gregorian Reform.
- Leading Features of the Gregorian Reform
- The adoption of the New Style.
- CHAPTER X THE KALENDAR OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE EAST
- I. Immoveable commemorations.
- II. The Dominical Kalendar of the Orthodox Church of the East.
- APPENDIX I THE PASCHAL QUESTION IN THE CELTIC CHURCHES
- APPENDIX II NOTE ON THE KALENDARS OF THE SEPARATED CHURCHES OF THE EAST
- APPENDIX III NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF THE KALENDAR OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SINCE THE REFORMATION
- FOOTNOTES
- INDEX
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