A Christmas feast.
A feast or holy day[1] is a day of celebrating an event or a saint in Jesus Christ's and the Catholic Church's life.[2] It has its roots in the Jewish chag (feast), like Weeks and Tabernacles,[3][4] and in the Roman feria (free day), when slaves and workers were free to relax and not obligated to work,[5][6] and it comes from the Eucharistic banquet.[7] The primordial feast is Sunday[8] and the greatest feast is Easter[9] - because of Christ's Resurrection.[10] Penance prepares Catholics to celebrate the feasts.[11] The saints of Heaven celebrate the heavenly liturgy as banquet.[12] Michaelmas is an abolished Holy Day of Obligation.[13]
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Notes[]
- ↑ http://newadvent.org/cathen/06021b.htm
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P4N.HTM
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_holiday
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm#2180
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feria
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm#2193
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s2c1a3.htm#1391
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s1c2a1.htm#1169
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P4N.HTM#8
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s2c1a3.htm#2174
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p3s1c3a3.htm#2043
- ↑ http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p2s1c2a1.htm#1136
- ↑ http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10275b.htm