Heortology - K. A. Heinrich Kellner

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Maltzew, A. von.—Fasten- und Blumen-Triodion, etc. Berlin, 1899. The Introduction deals with the ecclesiastical year of the Orthodox, Armenian, and Roman Catholic Churches.

Ranke, E.—Das Kirchl. Perikopensystem aus den ältesten Urkunden der römischen Liturgie dargelegt und erläutert. Berlin, 1847.

Strauss, Friedr.—Das evangelische Kirchenjahr in seinem Zusammenhange dargestellt. Berlin, 1850.

Usener, Herm.—Religionsgeschichte Untersuchungen. Das Weihnachtsfest. Bonn, 1889.

SECT.			PAGE
[PART I] THE CHURCH’S FESTIVALS IN GENERAL
1.	Introduction		[1]
2.	Sunday and its Observance as a Day of Rest		[6]
3.	The Classification of Festivals		[13]
4.	The Gradual Increase of Festivals. Their Decrease in the Last Three Centuries. The Present Position		[16]
[PART II]
[CHAPTER I.—THE CHURCH’S YEAR]
A. Easter, and the Sacred Seasons connected with Easter
1.	Easter, its Name and History		[37]
2.	The Connection of the Christian Festival with the Jewish		[41]
3.	The Circumstances which led to Easter being a Movable Feast		[46]
4.	The Final Settlement of the Date of Easter, and the Attempts made to commemorate the Day of the Month on which Christ died		[52]
5.	The Liturgical Celebration of Holy Week and Easter		[59]
		Palm Sunday	[66]
		Maundy Thursday	[69]
		Good Friday	[73]
		Holy Saturday	[79]
		Easter and the Easter Octave	[84]
6.	The Preparation for Easter—Quadragesima and the Fast		[88]
7.	The Season of Preparation as an Integral Part of the Church’s Year		[100]
8.	The Transfiguration		[105]
9.	The Ascension		[106]
10.	Whitsunday		[109]
11.	Trinity Sunday		[116]
12.	Corpus Christi. The Forty Hours’ Prayer. The Festival of the Sacred Heart		[119]
B. Christmas and the Christmas Season
1.	Christmas		[127]
2.	Advent and the Sundays until Septuagesima		[158]
3.	The Octave of Christmas. The Circumcision. The New Year		[163]
4.	The Epiphany		[166]
5.	The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Candlemas)		[173]
6.	The Sundays of the Church’s Year as forming Connecting Links between the Principal Feasts		[176]
C. Other Incidents in the Church’s Year
1.	The Embertides		[183]
2.	Litanies or Rogations		[189]
3.	The Dedication of a Church and the Festival of the Patron Saint		[194]
[CHAPTER II.—THE SAINTS’ DAYS]
1.	The Origins of the Cultus of the Saints and the Grounds on which it rests		[203]
2.	The Festivals of St John the Baptist and St Stephen the Proto-Martyr		[217]
3.	Festivals of Our Blessed Lady in General		[225]
4.	The Three Ancient Festivals of our Blessed Lady—the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Assumption		[230]
5.	Institution and Spread of the Festival of the Immaculate Conception		[239]
6.	The Lesser Feasts of Our Lady—
	i.	The Name of Mary	[264]
	ii.	The Presentation of Our Lady in the Temple	[265]
	iii.	The Visitation	[266]
	iv.	The Feast of the Holy Rosary	[268]
7.	The Feast of St Joseph. The Cultus of SS. Joachim and Anne		[272]
8.	The Festivals of the Apostles in General		[277]
9.	The Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists in Particular		[282]
	i.	St Peter and St Paul	[282]
	ii.	The Feast of St Peter’s Chains	[287]
	iii.	The Conversion of St Paul	[288]
	iv.	St Andrew and St Luke the Evangelist	[289]
	v.	St James the Great	[291]
	vi.	St Philip and St James the Less	[293]
	vii.	St John	[296]
	viii.	St Simon and St Jude (Thaddeus)	[298]
	ix.	St Mark the Evangelist	[300]
	x.	The Feast of St Peter’s Chair	[301]
10.	The Festivals of St Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, and St Catherine—
	i.	St Mary Magdalen	[309]
	ii.	St Cecilia	[315]
	iii.	St Catherine	[321]
11.	The Festival of All Saints		[323]
12.	The Commemoration of All Souls		[326]
13.	The Festivals of the Angels		[328]
14.	The Two Festivals in Honour of the Holy Cross		[333]
[PART III] THE MATERIAL UPON WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR IS BASED
1.	The Documentary Sources in General		[342]
2.	The Earliest Christian Calendars		[347]
3.	The Arian Calendar of the Fourth Century		[352]
4.	The So-called Martyrologium Hieronymianum		[363]
5.	The Lectionary and Martyrology of Silos		[378]
6.	Egyptian (Coptic) Calendars and Synaxaria		[381]
7.	The Menology of Constantinople		[387]
8.	The Menology of the Emperor Basil II., and the Syrian Lectionary of the Eleventh Century		[390]
9.	The Kalendarium Marmoreum of Naples		[394]
10.	Western Authorities from the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries		[396]
11.	The Martyrologies of Bede, Florus, Wandelbert, and Œngus		[401]
12.	The Martyrologies of Ado, Usuardus, Rabanus Maurus, and Notker Balbulus		[405]
13.	Important Calendars from the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries		[410]
	Conclusion		[419]
[APPENDIX]
I.	Classification of Feasts in the Roman Calendar		[421]
II.	On some Lists of Festivals		[421]
III.	The Festivals of Obligation as observed in Different Countries		[423]
IV.	Liturgical Vestments		[428]
V.	The Word Mass as a Name for the Sacrifice of the Altar		[430]
VI.	On the Date for Christmas in Hippolytus		[437]
VII.	Christmas in England during the Commonwealth		[439]
VIII.	Excursus on the Three Holy Kings		[441]
IX.	The Greek Ecclesiastical Year		[442]
X.	English Writers and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception		[445]
XI.	Excursus on the so-called Typica		[447]
	Chronological Table		[449]
	Index		[457]

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