Bede wrote homilies not only on the major Christian seasons such as Advent, Lent, or Easter, but on other subjects such as anniversaries of significant events.

This contains the office of the seasons of the Christian year ( Advent to Trinity ), a conception that only gradually grew up.

Online at New Advent and Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Online at New Advent and Christian Classics Ethereal Library.

Christian hymns are often written with special or seasonal themes and these are used on holy days such as Christmas, Easter and the Feast of All Saints, or during particular seasons such as Advent and Lent.

Adherents use several names to describe themselves, including Second Advent Christian, Swedenborgian and New Church.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant Christian denomination distinguished by its observance of Saturday, the original seventh day of the Judeo-Christian week, as the Sabbath, and by its emphasis on the imminent second coming ( Advent ) of Jesus Christ.

* Advent Christian Church

There are also many additional services during the Christian year particularly during Advent, Christmas, Holy Week, and Easter.

Advent, anglicized from the Latin word meaning " coming ", is a season observed in many Western Christian churches, a time of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.

The Greater Advent or O Antiphons are antiphons used at daily prayer in the evenings of the last days of Advent in various liturgical Christian traditions.

* Palmer Advent Christian Church

In 1882, the Advent Christian Church in John Day had 547 members, 382 of whom were Chinese ( and a number of Chinese residents were interred in the Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery ).

The Albany Conference group of Millerites formed the Evangelical Adventists out of which rose the Advent Christian Church.

Along with Easter, Christmastime is one of the most important periods on the Christian calendar, and is often closely connected to other holidays at this time of year, such as Advent, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, St. Nicholas Day, St. Stephen's Day, New Year's, and the Feast of the Epiphany.

The Advent wreath is now a popular symbol in preparation for the coming of Christ, to mark the beginning of the Christian Church ’ s year and as décor during the Christmas festivities.

During the forty days leading up to Christmas, the Eastern Orthodox Church practices the Nativity Fast, while the majority of Christian congregations ( including the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, many Mainline churches, and Baptists ) begin observing the liturgical season of Advent four Sundays before Christmas — both are seen as times of spiritual cleansing, recollection and renewal to prepare for the celebration of the birth of Jesus.

From the Millerites descended the Seventh-day Adventists and the Advent Christian Church.

The Advent Christian Church is unaffiliated with Seventh-day Adventism, but considers itself the second " of six Christian denominations that grew out of the ministry of William Miller ".

As a " first-day " body of Adventist Christians established by The Advent Christian General Conference in 1860, the church's beliefs include " conditional immortality " and a form of " soul sleep ".

The Advent Christian Church has its roots in this post-Great Disappointment group.

Present-day defenders of mortalism include many Anglicans, such as N. T. Wright and Nicky Gumbel, some Lutherans, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, Advent Christian Church, the non denominational group Afterlife Christadelphians, the Church of God ( Seventh Day ), Church of God ( 7th day )-Salem Conference, the Church of God Abrahamic Faith, and various other Church of God organizations including most Related Denominations which adhered to the older teachings of Herbert W. Armstrong's Worldwide Church of God and the Bible Student movement.

* New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia — an article on Christian Democracy

The Advent Movement emerged in the 1830s and 1840s in North America, and was preached by ministers such as William Miller, whose followers became known as Millerites.

Marking the festival's importance, in several denominations, such as the Lutheran and United Methodist churches ( and formerly in the Roman Catholic Church ), all the Sundays from the holiday itself until the next Advent in late November or December are designated the 2nd, 3rd, Nth, Sunday after Pentecost, etc.

The Gloria is omitted during liturgical seasons calling for penitence, such as Advent and Lent, both generally having the liturgical color violet, but is used on feasts falling during such seasons, as well as on Holy Thursday.

Penitential activity is particularly common during the season of Lent and Holy Week ( mainly the Passion week, inspired by Christ's suffering ; hence in some cultural traditions still including flagellantism or even voluntary pseudo-crucifixion ) and, to a lesser extent, Advent, when penance is often combined with acts of self-discipline, such as fasting, voluntary celibacy, or other privations.

Advent Christians such as George Storrs and Jonas Wendell influenced the Bible Student movement.

Christmas songs contain vocables such as kalėda, lėliu kalėda ; oi kalėda kalėdzieka, while Advent songs contain vocables such as leliumoj, aleliuma, aleliuma rūta, aleliuma loda and others.

A third root of the Advent Christians is found in the rise of the doctrine of conditional immortality among Adventist preachers such as Charles F. Hudson ( 1795 – 1881 ) and George Storrs ( 1796 – 1879 ).

Although nowadays they have fully assimilated into the Malay-medium national school system and most admit students regardless of gender and background ( some single-sex schools remain ), many of the schools still bear their original names, such as the ones with the names of saints or words such as “ Catholic ”, “ Convent ”, “ Advent ” and “ Methodist ”.

The Sunday itself was often called Rogation Sunday as a result, and marked the start of a three-week period ( ending on Trinity Sunday ), when Roman Catholic and Anglican clergy did not solemnize marriages ( two other such periods of marital prohibition also formerly existed, one beginning on the first Sunday in Advent and continuing through the Octave of Epiphany, or 13 January, and the other running from Septuagesima until the Octave of Easter, the Sunday after Easter ).

Prior to the film's release in Japan, Panasonic produced a cell phone identical to the one Cloud uses in the film ; the phone contained several features related to Advent Children such as wallpapers and ringtones.

More elaborate Advent calendars have a small gift concealed in each window, such as a toy or a chocolate item.

Some families had more elaborate means of marking the days, such as lighting a new candle ( perhaps the genesis of today's Advent wreath ) or hanging a little religious picture on the wall each day.

The Advent calendar is normally shaped like a large greeting card, but it can be found in other shapes, such as a three-dimensional model of a house or church.

There are alternative forms of Advent calendar, such as those made from felt or other material, or a chain of candles that can be lit day by day.

Installments in The Compilation of Final Fantasy VII later expanded upon her character, such as in the film Advent Children, where she attempts to convince Cloud to let go of his self-imposed guilt, and move on with his life after Sephiroth's defeat.

Perhaps his most well known verse anthem is This is the record of John, which sets an Advent text for solo countertenor or tenor, alternating with full chorus.

* Tyler, John W. Smugglers & Patriots: Boston Merchants and the Advent of the American Revolution.

St. John the Baptist has a sister parish in Medfield, Massachusetts in the United States, the Church of the Advent.

Just south of the square on Kedzie Avenue, Armitage Baptist Church is located in the former Masonic Temple, and to the east of the square on Logan Boulevard are the Episcopal Church of the Advent, a new Seventh Day Adventist Church and St. John Berchmans Catholic Church.

Portions of the Gospel of John are read throughout Eastertide, and are also used for other liturgical seasons including Advent, Christmastide, and Lent where appropriate.

Thus passages from St John appear in the special seasons of Advent and Lent, on Passion Sunday in all three years, throughout Holy Week, including Good Friday, on Easter Day as the first alternative Gospel, during most of the Easter season, on Pentecost and during the year in which St Mark's gospel is in use.

* New Advent Biography of Alexis John Augustine Bachelot

The pipe organs at the Church of the Advent in Boston and at St. John ’ s Chapel, Groton Massachusetts are often as cited as the first “ turning point ” instruments produced by Aeolian-Skinner under Harrison ’ s direction.