You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show, the liturgical year conforming your life to Christ.

Hey, I'm Jeff Kavans. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible?

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Welcome to the show this week, my friend, good to have you and happy New Year to you. What do I mean by that? If you're listening to this broadcast in real time, you know that it's actually

towards the end of the year. We haven't really hit the new year yet, but in terms of the church calendar and the liturgical year, we just finished up the year with the

Feast of Christ, the King, and we are ready to start a brand new calendar year, and that is going to start with advent and that's what I'm going to be talking to you about this week is something that frankly for a lot of people kind of seems boring but when you really look at it, it's really quite exciting because

the liturgical calendar literally follows the life of Christ and I want to I want to

talk about that and also a way for you to look at this new year as a way for you

to not just go through the liturgical year but to conform your life to Jesus and you get an opportunity to do that every single day.

But in order to do that well, you have to understand how the liturgical year is actually

put together and that's what the purpose of this show is all about.

I promise you it's not going to be dry and liturgy is not dry, the liturgical year is not dry, although I have to say growing up I didn't pay much attention to it at all.

And I really didn't know the logic of it, which I imagine was your case, you know, when you were growing up as well.

And so looking forward to it.

By the way, I do appreciate all of your letters.

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far as letting more people know about the great gifts that we have in the Catholic Church. Well, the year has ended with Christ

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