JIm FUlner reviewed The Liturgical Year by Adolf Adam
3 stars
This book was different than I expected it to be. returnreturnI was expecting more of a "we use green for ordinary time because..." or "we can sign this kind of song this day and not the other because..." but it was not that. It was a real history, focusing much on why we celebrate things WHEN we do. Why is the baptism of the lord the Sunday after Epiphany? returnreturnWhy are their less Saint's feast then when you were a kid? (of course as a convert there are more, and I wish I had what we used to)returnreturnThe journey in the 20th century to trying to remind Catholics that THE BIBLE is where we belong. returnreturnAn interesting output, even if it was different than what I was hoping.
This book was different than I expected it to be. returnreturnI was expecting more of a "we use green for ordinary time because..." or "we can sign this kind of song this day and not the other because..." but it was not that. It was a real history, focusing much on why we celebrate things WHEN we do. Why is the baptism of the lord the Sunday after Epiphany? returnreturnWhy are their less Saint's feast then when you were a kid? (of course as a convert there are more, and I wish I had what we used to)returnreturnThe journey in the 20th century to trying to remind Catholics that THE BIBLE is where we belong. returnreturnAn interesting output, even if it was different than what I was hoping.