Ordo Kalendar for 2012 - St. James' Anglican Church

303 East Cordova St. Vancouver, BC
Telephone: 604-685-2532
Email: office@stjames.bc.ca Website: www.stjames.bc.ca
Acknowledgements:
Canon Douglas Williams for undertaking a comprehensive redevelopment and renewal of the St.James’ Kalendar and to Father Michael for assisting him.
Christine Hatfull for editing, compiling, and organizing all images for the Kalendar. Parishioners who submitted photos for the Kalendar. Members of the
ministries and guilds for your ongoing acts of dedication and service to Christ.
The liturgy of the Church celebrates but one mystery:
the life, the death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Each Sunday is the weekly commemoration of that,
mystery of Christ. Christians gather each Sunday to
celebrate, in word and sacrament, their participation in
Christ. The Lord’s Day is consequently given primary
over other commemorations.
Each year the weekly commemoration is celebrated
with particular joy when the Church keeps Passover or
Easter. The observance includes forty days of
preparation in Lent and fifty days of celebration in
the Easter season. Easter is the central festival of the
Church Year.
St. James’ Anglican Church, Vancouver, BC
The Kalendar of the Church Year
General Instruction
THE LITURGICAL YEAR 1
The commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ at
Christmas provides the focus for the other seasons of
the Church Year. The festival, much later in origin than
Easter, is associated with the Epiphany in some parts of
the Christian world. Advent is a period of preparation
for this celebration.
Sundays which are not immediately related to Easter
or Christmas are numbered as Sundays after Epiphany
and Sundays after Pentecost.
The Church celebrates the victory of Christ in the lives
of particular individuals in the commemoration of
saints. The calendar of saints’ days varies among the
various Christian Churches and among the various
Churches of the Anglican Communion.
Some saints’ days are of great antiquity and universal
observance and take precedence of certain other days.
The Calendar also includes the names of a variety of
Christians who are remembered for a number of
reasons: some inspired the reverent wonder of another
time and place; some are associated with the heroic
struggle involved in the development of the Church in
this country. In addition to those whose names
appear in this Calendar, it is appropriate for the
Church, at regional and even local levels, to add the
names of Christians whose lives have reflected the
mystery of Christ.
1. “The Calendar of the Church Year” in the Book of Alternative Sevices
quoted in the Introduction to The Kalendar
(Vancouver: St. James’ Anglican Church, 2011)