Placing the Paschal Divine Liturgy at midnight guarantees that no Divine Liturgy will come earlier in the morning, ensuring its place as the pre-eminent " Feast of Feasts " in the liturgical year.

Christian holidays are defined as part of the liturgical year, the chief ones being Easter and Christmas.

In the Roman Catholic Church, the twelve minor prophets are read in the Breviary during the fourth and fifth weeks of November, which are the last two weeks of the liturgical year, and his feast day is January 15.

According to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the liturgical year begins at 4: 00 pm on the Saturday preceding the fourth Sunday prior to 25 December.

In some of the Orthodox Church, Palm Sunday is often called the " Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem ", is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the liturgical year, and is the beginning of Holy Week.

In the following year, 1956, while preparatory studies were being conducted for a general liturgical reform, Pope Pius XII surveyed the opinions of the bishops on the liturgical improvement of the Roman breviary.

** The beginning of the new liturgical year ( Eastern Orthodox Church and the Eastern Catholic Church )

Medieval theatre covers all drama produced in Europe over that thousand year period and refers to a variety of genres, including liturgical drama, mystery plays, morality plays, farces and masques.

The Misteri d ' Elx ( in English, the Elx Mystery Play or Mystery Play of Elx ) is a liturgical drama dating from the Middle Ages, which is enacted and celebrated in the Basilica de Santa María in the city of Elx on the 14 and 15 August of each year.

Among the major musical event that takes place every year is a celebration of the feast day of Saint Francis of Assisi, when the Paul Winter Consort participates in a liturgical performance of Winter's Missa Gaia ( Earth Mass ).

In addition to leading of singing in which the congregation participates, such as hymns and service music, some church choirs still sing full liturgies, including propers ( introit, gradual, communion antiphons appropriate for the different times of the liturgical year ).

Pentecost (, Pentēkostē, " the Fiftieth ") is a prominent feast in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the twelve Apostles of Christ.

In Evangelical churches, where a lesser degree of emphasis on the liturgical year is generally placed, Pentecost may indeed be one of the greatest celebrations in the year.

Distinct liturgical colours may appear in connection with different seasons of the liturgical year.

The liturgical cycle divides the year into a series of seasons, each with their own mood, theological emphases, and modes of prayer, which can be signified by different ways of decorating churches, colors of paraments and vestments for clergy, scriptural readings, themes for preaching and even different traditions and practices often observed personally or in the home.

In churches that follow the liturgical year, the scripture passages for each Sunday ( and even each day of the year in some traditions ) are specified in a lectionary.

In its Roman Rite the liturgical year begins with Advent, the time of preparation for both the celebration of Jesus ' birth, and his expected second coming at the end of time.

The Caeremoniale Episcoporum no longer makes mention of episcopal gloves, episcopal sandals, liturgical stockings ( also known as buskins ), or the accoutrements that it once prescribed for the bishop's horse.

However, the fact that the third chapter is written in a different style, as a liturgical piece, does not necessarily mean that Habakkuk was not also its author.

Both sides recognised the legitimacy and rightness, as expressions of the same faith, of the Assyrian Church's liturgical invocation of Mary as " the Mother of Christ our God and Saviour " and the Catholic Church's use of " the Mother of God " and also as " the Mother of Christ ".

Most Christian denominations have also replaced it with the Gregorian calendar as the basis for their liturgical calendars.

On the Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar his feast day is September 22 also ( for those churches which follow the traditional Julian calendar, September 22 currently falls on October 5 of the modern Gregorian calendar ).

The most significant liturgical acts reserved to priests in these traditions are the administration of the Sacraments, including the celebration of the Holy Mass or Divine Liturgy ( the terms for the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin and Byzantine traditions, respectively ), and the Sacrament of Reconciliation, also called Confession.

Christian traditions that retain the title of priest also retain the tradition of special liturgical vestments worn only during services.

The liturgical references in his writings also date his works after the 4th century.

The moderator presides over the session as primus inter pares and as moderator also serves a " liturgical " bishop over the ordination and installation of elders and deacons within a particular congregation.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

Printing also favoured the spread of other liturgical texts of less certain orthodoxy.

The RA has also published liturgical texts for other days on the Jewish calendar, such as Megillat Hashoah: The Holocaust Scroll for Yom Ha-shoah and Siddur Tishah B ’ Av for the fast day of Tishah B ’ Av.

While tying it to one fixed date would serve to underline the belief that Easter commemorates an actual historical event, without an accompanying calendar reform it would also break the tradition of Easter always being on a Sunday, established since the 2nd century AD and by now deeply embedded in the liturgical practice and theological understanding of almost all Christian denominations.

The Congregation for the Oriental Churches ( Congregatio pro Ecclesiis Orientalibus ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for contact with the Eastern Catholic Churches for the sake of assisting their development, protecting their rights and also maintaining whole and entire in the one Catholic Church, alongside the liturgical, disciplinary and spiritual patrimony of the Latin Rite, the heritage of the various Oriental Christian traditions.

The Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments ( Congregatio de Cultu Divino et Disciplina Sacramentorum ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia that handles most affairs relating to liturgical practices of the Latin Catholic Church as distinct from the Eastern Catholic Churches and also some technical matters relating to the Sacraments.

The Eastern Orthodox also use LXX untranslated where Greek is the liturgical language, e. g. in the Orthodox Church of Constantinople, the Church of Greece and the Cypriot Orthodox Church.

The mahzor contains not only the basic liturgy, but also many piyutim, Hebrew liturgical poems.

The " Translatio " speaks only of a version of the Gospels by Cyril, and the " Vita Methodii " only of the " evangelium Slovenicum ," though other liturgical selections may also have been translated.

In most cases, congregations also use other elements of liturgical worship, such as candles, vestments, paraments, banners, and liturgical art.

The Carnival season in Greece is also known as the Apokriés ( Greek: Αποκριές, " saying goodbye to meat "), or the season of the " Opening of the Triodion ", so named after the liturgical book used by the church from then until the Holy Week.

The Italo-Albanian Catholic Church has also never been out of communion with Rome, but, unlike the Maronite Church, it resembles Orthodox Church's liturgical rite.

This period of political breakdown and reorganization also saw the rise of written local vernaculars in place of the literary and liturgical Church Slavonic language, a further stage in the evolving differentiation between the Belarusian, Russian and Ukrainian languages.

The Sinhalese alphabet is an abugida used in Sri Lanka to write the official language Sinhala and also the liturgical languages Pali and Sanskrit.

The 1605 set also contains a number of miscellaneous items which fall outside the liturgical scheme of the main body of the set.