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.

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

* Chryssides, George D., The Advent of Sun Myung Moon: The Origins, Beliefs and Practices of the Unification Church ( 1991 ) London, Macmillan Professional and Academic Ltd.

An Advent wreath in the chancel of Broadway United Methodist Church, located in New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA.

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 Church of England uses the term " Sundays before Advent " for the final four Sundays and permits red vestments as an alternative.

However, Church New Year ( Indiction ) traditionally begins on September 1 ( Old Style or New Style ), rather than the first Sunday of Advent.

Three churches are located in Lake Ann: Advent Lutheran Church, Lake Ann United Methodist

In Cambridge, England, during December 1982, on the feast of Santa Lucia, Advent, Alliluyeva converted to the Roman Catholic Church.

* Lady Chapel, Church of the Advent, Boston, Massachusetts, 1894

* Brooksville Advent Church, named after the village of Brooksville in New Haven, Vermont

The ansible is also featured in the video game Advent Rising, for which Card helped write the story.

There is here given the whole service for every Sunday and week-day, the proper antiphons, responsories, hymns, and especially the course of daily Scripture-reading, averaging about twenty verses a day, and ( roughly ) arranged thus: for Advent, Isaiah ; Epiphany to Septuagesima, Pauline Epistles ; Lent, patristic homilies ( Genesis on Sundays ); Passion-tide, Jeremiah ; Easter to Whitsun, Acts, Catholic epistles and Apocalypse ; Whitsun to August, Samuel and Kings ; August to Advent, Wisdom books, Maccabees, Prophets.

Among the special tasks carried out i private homes during Advent ( a time of waiting for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus ) is the baking of the Christmas piernik ( gingerbread ), and the making of Christmas decorations.

Whereas most American Methodist worship is modeled after the Anglican Communion's Book of Common Prayer, a unique feature was the once practiced observance of the season of Kingdomtide, which encompasses the last thirteen weeks before Advent, thus dividing the long season after Pentecost into two discrete segments.

* Earliest day on which the Feast of Christ the King can fall, while November 26 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Sunday before Advent.

This is followed to this day, and in the Tridentine rite " Alleluia " is also omitted during the Advent season.

The Second Coming or Advent of the Christ is not in a physical body, but in the new soul body of each individual in the etheric region of the planet where man " shall be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.

Some of his longer letters include World Order of Bahá ' u ' lláh, regarding the nature of Bahá ' í administration, Advent of Divine Justice, regarding teaching the religion, and Promised Day is Come regarding Bahá ' u ' lláh's letters to world leaders.

* In many western churches, violet is the liturgical color of Advent and Lent, which respectively celebrate the expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus and the time for Penance and / or Mourning.

The type of candle used in this way is called the Advent candle, although this term is also used to refer to a candle that decorates an Advent wreath.

* Gaudete Sunday is the third Sunday of Advent.

* Stir-up Sunday is the last Sunday before Advent.

This period of waiting is often marked by the Advent Wreath, a garland of evergreens with four candles.

The fact that the Christ Candle in the centre of the Advent wreath is lit also indicates that Christmas has arrived.

The Sundays resume their numbering at the point that will make the Sunday before Advent the thirty-fourth, omitting any weeks for which there is no room ( present-day form of the Roman Rite ) or are numbered as " Sundays after Pentecost " ( pre-1970 Roman Rite, Eastern Orthodoxy and some Protestants ) or as " Sundays after Trinity " ( some Protestants ).

In the final few weeks of Ordinary Time, many churches direct attention to the coming of the Kingdom of God, thus ending the liturgical year with an eschatological theme that is one of the predominant themes of the season of Advent that began the liturgical year.

The Nativity Fast ( Winter Lent ) is a time of preparation for the Feast of the Nativity of Christ ( Christmas ), but whereas Advent in the West lasts only four weeks, Nativity Fast lasts a full forty days.

It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, called Levavi.