A Good Year

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What are the seasons of the ChurchÆs year? Why have they become shaped as they have and what can we do to make them good? TBC on A Good Advent ROWAN WILLIAMS, Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, on A Good Christmas: æChristmas is one of the defining points of the year for all Christians, and one of the most difficult festivals to keep spiritually.Æ TBC on A Good Epiphany JUSTIN WELBY, Archbishop of Canterbury, on A Good Lent: æBecause he is God, and also Friend, we are touched at the depth of our beings as we live with him through every event of his trial, death and resurrection.Æ STEPHEN COTTRELL, Bishop of Chelmsford, on A Good Holy Week: æJesus enters into Jerusalem in triumph, and a week later he is dead. Holy Week is the great crisis of Christianity . . .Æ STEPHEN CONWAY, Bishop of Ely, on A Good Easter: æToo often we think of Easter as just one day, but in reality itÆs the fifty day season during which we explore the disciplesÆ experiences of the risen Christ and the meaning of the Resurrection.Æ TBC on A Good Pentecost