Liturgical Year: Christmas
| Category | Liturgy |
|---|---|
| Latin / term | — |
| Depth | Focused |
Definition
Liturgical Year: Christmas is a focused lexicon entry in Liturgy. It treats the Christmas dimension of liturgical year within Catholic doctrine, worship, law, history or spiritual practice.
Catholic usage
Catholic usage asks how this point is received in the Church’s sources, how it functions in practice, and how it relates to neighbouring doctrines rather than treating it as an isolated slogan.
the public worship of the Church, especially the Eucharistic sacrifice, the Divine Office, rites, seasons, vesture and sacred signs.
Distinctions and safeguards
The main distinctions are between revealed doctrine and theological explanation, essential principle and disciplinary form, universal norm and local usage, and the natural order and the order of grace.
A Catholic lexicon entry should lead the reader away from slogans and toward the full order of faith: God, creation, revelation, Christ, the Church, sacrament, law, worship, history and the final end of man.
Source orientation
Biblical worship, the Roman and Eastern rites, rubrics, sacramentaries, missals, breviaries and magisterial norms on worship.
For study, compare this term with Scripture, the catechisms, the liturgical books, magisterial texts and the witness of the Fathers where applicable.