church year
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- noun
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año litúrgico
- As Advent begins, we prepare our hearts for the Christmas season within the church year.
Examples
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Many Christians look forward to the celebrations throughout the church year, especially Christmas and Easter.
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It is the last Sunday of the church year.
Blog text (13) -
As the church year draws to its end in November, these passages on the "end of days" are becoming more frequent.
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Many people also have holy oil, the palms or willows from Palm Sunday, and other holy things from the services of the church year.
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In Jesus' life, death, and resurrection, in his last words, in this, the last liturgical word of our church year, we hear challenging world-ending words.
Blog text (13) -
If your congregation would like to borrow our Standing on the Side of Love banner during the 2011/12 church year, please contact the district office to reserve your dates.
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This list of texts guides worshipers through the cycle of the church year, so that over time Christians hear and explore the most important passages in the Bible.
Academic text (2014) -
As a deviation from the ecumenical calendar and lectionary, the proposed Season of Creation requires churches that wish to celebrate the gift of creation and deepen their ecological concern to step out of their broad communion with other Christian churches into a special and separate "season" of creation not yet well integrated into the flow of the rest of the church year.
Academic text (2015) -
The pastor explained the significance of each season in the church year during the sermon.
Synonyms
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A calendar showing Christian holy days, festivals, and fasting times throughout the year
A yearly cycle of seasons and festivals in the Christian church that includes Advent and Easter
A plan of the Christian year showing dates of fasts and holy days like Easter
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'church year' is directly compositional: 'church' (religious institution/practice) + 'year' (annual period) yields the annual cycle observed by the church. This noun‑noun construction and its concept (liturgical/calendar year) are cross‑linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Church year comes from how the church divided the year into seasons and feast days to remember events in Jesus's life and the lives of saints. So, church year today means the 'yearly cycle' of special church seasons and holidays like Advent, Christmas, Lent and Easter.