El Año de Gracia 2023, large paper

Spanish. Poster Size, 26 x 26, paper. A circular liturgical calendar that begins with the first Sunday of Advent 2020 and is color-coded to season and feast. The Year of Grace 2022 follows the Sunday Year C cycle, beginning the First Sunday of Advent 2021 and ending in November 2022. Included in each version of the calendar is information about the liturgical year, a guide to using the calendar, and information about the art and the artist. 

This year’s calendar for 2023 presents the cheerful, colorful art of Catherine Pape. Her illustrations of blessings in Catholic family and community life focus on some of the many blessing practices rooted in tradition and lovingly passed on through generations: the blessing of a home and of an advent wreath, of food at a soup kitchen or at a family table, of children by parents as they depart for the day, and of crops, animals, and farm equipment. These scenes depict little celebrations of the ways we are blessed and protected by God. Such blessings keep us mindful of God’s love and guidance, and they model for our children one way that Catholics try to stay open and aware of God’s presence in our ordinary lives. (©2022)

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1616716436
716431
9781616716431
AG23LP