Liturgical Year Quotes & Sayings

The liturgical year is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ. It proposes, year after year, to immerse us over and over again into the sense and substance of the Christian life until, eventually we become what we say we are - followers of Jesus all the way to the heart of God — Joan D. Chittister

These special holidays give rise to various liturgical calendars that suggest we should mark our days not only with the cycles of the moon and seasons, but also with occasions to tell our children the stories of our faith community's past so that this past will have a future, and so that our ancient way and its practices will be rediscovered and renewed every year. — Brian D. McLaren

Most public bathrooms now have automatic toilet sensors. People can't even be trusted to flush. — Dov Davidoff

Normally I'd run off in the other direction when faced with a man wearing what were essentially pyjamas to work, but this time ... well, they matched my boxers. — Josephine Myles

The first few years I was in Vermont quite a bit, but I don't think I ever spent years and years there. — Ethan Suplee

Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful. — Dorothy H Cohen

LIKE A GREAT WATERWHEEL, THE LITURGICAL YEAR goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. — Joan D. Chittister

The United States should encourage Israel to take further steps to improve the Palestinian economy. — Elliott Abrams