Ch. 16 Prayers for Holy Days
The Holiest days are: Easter (Resurrection), Good Friday (Death), and Christmas (Birth)
The seasons of the Church year are as follows: Advent, Christmas, Time after Epiphany,
Lent, The Three Days, Easter, and Time after Pentecost.
The Church calendar begins with Advent, there are four Sundays; Christmas lasts twelve days; Epiphany varies year to year depending on when Lent begins; Lent has five Sundays and then Palm Sunday which is always one week before Easter; Easter lasts fifty days; and the Time after Pentecost lasts for half of the church year, and varies according to when Easter falls.
Holy days of Obligation, taken from catholic.org
1) January 1-the solemnity of Mother Mary
2) Thursday of the 6th week
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Alleluia means praise “Yahweh”, it is a sense of great joy. Lent is a time to remember the suffering of Jesus Christ and to concentrate on our spiritual growth, due to our fasting, meditating, and praying.
At Easter, Alleluia is again sung as we remember the Resurrection of
Our Lord and singing with the choir of Angels in Heaven. During Lent there are many beautiful things to do to remember God.
Billy Graham has a beautiful message of devotional prayers for Holy week.
Many churches have special services, weekday bible studies, special soup suppers on Wednesdays, and fish fries on Fridays during Lent. It is also traditional to give up something meaningful and difficult for Lent. This can be kept between you and God.
Ash Wednesday
(From my church bulletin)
O Loving God, we come to the Holy season of Lent truly sorry for our sins that have often separated us from you. We confess that
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We pray for a new quest for holiness on our part that we may become faithful and righteousness servants of Christ. In his name, we pray.
Amen.
Good Friday is the most solemn day of the Church year.
The services are always very holy and meaningful. I grew up attending the
Good Friday service at my Slovak Lutheran church as a young lady, I have the book Svate Pasie. It was tradition to keep that book in your dresser and to take it out once a year for the service, which was done in Slovak. It was my Aunt Juliana Parobek’s book, and I am honored to have it. The bidding prayer is the traditional prayer for Good Friday. It is also used on Wednesdays and Fridays during Lent or any other time. This is done with quiet meditative time between bids. You will notice this type of prayer in hymnals used during the service.
Beautiful closing prayer used during Lenten services in the evening,
Taken from the Lutheran church bulletin
O God, you have called your servants to ventures of which we cannot
See the ending, by paths as yet untrodden, through perils unknown.
Give us faith to go out with good courage, not knowing where we go, but only that your hand is leading us and your love supporting us;