The time-honored traditions of the liturgical calendar guide Christians through a year-long meditation on the life of Christ. Beyond just Christmas and Easter, each season of the church year offers special opportunities to remember and celebrate the work of God.
In Sacred Seasons, Danielle Hitchen helps you incorporate the rhythms and rituals of this ancient Christian discipline into your everyday family life. Part theology, part church history, and part practical spirituality, Sacred Seasons provides an easy-to-use guide to observing the liturgical year complete with fun activities, delicious recipes, and meaningful liturgies.
Grow your family’s faith in tangible ways as you experience the meaning and joy of each sacred season together.
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Fun Activities
Discover practical, creative ways to engage your children in church year celebrations.
Delicious Recipes
No holiday is complete without food! Enjoy tasty recipes for traditional breads, drinks, and desserts, that add flavor to all your festivities.
Meaningful Liturgies
Complete with hymns, prayers, and selected scripture, these liturgies will make it easier than ever for your family to focus on God during each holy day.
Praise for Sacred Seasons
“More than any resource I know, Sacred Seasons makes following the Christian calendar approachable and enjoyable. This book is meticulously researched and theologically robust—it will be an enormous blessing to anyone who wants to enter more deeply into the rhythms of grace God has given his church.”
—Matthew Lee Anderson, author and founder of Mere Orthodoxy
Sacred Seasons makes a warm, winning, and above all practical introduction to the traditional church year, and will be a boon for all who are rediscovering this forgotten treasure of the church, this neglected pattern for Christian living. This book will especially appeal to those who’d like to ‘live the liturgy’ in a natural way, together, at home, as a family. Wonderful seasonal recipes are interwoven with helpful explanations of the ‘reasons for the seasons,' and creative ideas for celebrating them together. I am glad to commend this book.
—Revd Dr Malcolm Guite, poet and Life Fellow of Girton College, University of Cambridge
“Danielle is a thoughtful teacher whose invitational spirit will help you learn and grow alongside your family as you journey through the liturgical year. This deeply rooted offering is informational yet accessible, historical yet approachable. The spiritual rhythms, routines, and rituals in this artful collection are sure to resource families for years to come.”
—Kayla Craig, author of To Light Their Way and creator of the Liturgies for Parents podcast
Danielle Hitchen longs for people to see and understand God’s big story in the everyday world around them. She is enthusiastic about church history and tradition, mental and emotional health, and living the good life. By day, Danielle is a reluctant homeschool mom, acceptable homemaker, and longtime associate producer of the Hugh Hewitt Show. In her spare time, she is also the author of the Baby Believer series, founder of Catechesis Books, and occasional writer of other things (like this book). Danielle loves good stories, big ideas, and beautiful design. She and her husband live near Washington, DC, where they can be found enjoying Smithsonians and playgrounds with their three children, good conversations with their friends, and Virginia vineyards with each other.
One of Danielle Hitchen’s passions is entering into the life of Christ and the great story of Scripture by celebrating the Church year. There are two ways for you to do that with her…
The Cycle of Grace known as the Church Year is best enjoyed in good company, so I hope you'll sign up for this newsletter and open it each month to find encouragement in loving God and our neighbors well in every season.
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Sacred Season was a podcast designed to come alongside you with encouragement for every season of life, especially parenting in the little years—a sacred but sometimes challenging season. No new episodes will be released, but old episodes are still available to show you how to use the themes of the church season as a guide to explore how the life of Christ is mirrored in our own lives and in the sacred call of mothering.
