I was sent The Liturgical Year by Sister Joan Chittister a long time ago. It was sent to my home address and my m other didn't think to forward it to me in Georgia. Nonetheless, I started reading it over Christmas break. For some reason, I was under the impression that it was going to be a book going weekly through the Liturgical calendar, which is why I chose it. Instead, it's really just a description of what the Liturgical year actually is and why it's important.
I can't bash anything a nun writes. I love them all way too much. However, I will say that for someone who has been studying things like this for awhile, I found the book to be rather elementary. Bad for me, good for people who have no clue what a "Liturgical Year" even is. I did enjoy the section where she talks about how the church incorporates non-holy days into its year. I was always really confused as a kid as to why the church started its new year in Advent yet New Years Eve was still a holy day of obligation. (I also though the Immaculate Conception was suspiciously close to the birth of Jesus. I didn't realize until maybe a couple years ago, after I had been removed from Catholicism and was looking back in that we celebrate Mary's conception without sin at the IC, not Jesus' conception.)
I liked the book. I'm probably going to send it back to my mom for her to read, even though she probably knows all the same stuff I did. Sister Joan is a decent writer and I appreciate people getting the word out that things like fixed-hour prayer aren't just for the religious and are certainly still relevant today.
I can't bash anything a nun writes. I love them all way too much. However, I will say that for someone who has been studying things like this for awhile, I found the book to be rather elementary. Bad for me, good for people who have no clue what a "Liturgical Year" even is. I did enjoy the section where she talks about how the church incorporates non-holy days into its year. I was always really confused as a kid as to why the church started its new year in Advent yet New Years Eve was still a holy day of obligation. (I also though the Immaculate Conception was suspiciously close to the birth of Jesus. I didn't realize until maybe a couple years ago, after I had been removed from Catholicism and was looking back in that we celebrate Mary's conception without sin at the IC, not Jesus' conception.)
I liked the book. I'm probably going to send it back to my mom for her to read, even though she probably knows all the same stuff I did. Sister Joan is a decent writer and I appreciate people getting the word out that things like fixed-hour prayer aren't just for the religious and are certainly still relevant today.
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