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Celebrating and feasting are such an integral part of Catholic life, that you'd think we'd invented the concept! As well as the celebration of birthdays and anniversaries, Catholics also celebrate religious feast days and special calendar events throughout the Church's year.

The calendar of the Church's main celebrations and memorials was devised over several centuries and ties in with the agricultural seasons of the year – like Harvest time, for example.

The most important diary dates are Christmas and Easter without a doubt, and these are times when we really celebrate the special things in Jesus' life. We fast before these special days and feast afterwards. I find it a very balanced way to live.

Although we tend not to have public processions on feast days in the UK, some countries do, in the form of elaborate carnivals. They really give people the chance to let their hair down! That's what I call partying!

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What special days do you celebrate?

Do you have a spiritual diary that you follow?

Christmas - What lies behind the tinsel?

The Nativity Story - what's its deeper meaning?

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	"The charity of truth seeks holy leisure." St. Augustine, Catechism of the Catholic Church 2185


	"The company makes the feast." 17th Century Proverb, The Everyman Dictionary of Quotations and Proverbs, Chancellor Press, 1988, pg.416:3.

"I don't understand people that get so drunk or drugged that they really lose control. That's not partying, that's self-abuse."

"I love to party – loud music and my friends around me having fun and letting our hair down. Great!"

"Celebrations can be loud or quiet, it's down to a person's choice. I feel it's what you are celebrating that should be the focus, not how you celebrate."

"Some celebrations are too commercial now. We've lost the plot!"

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