The Last Sunday of the Year
This is the final Sunday of the Church Year. It is, in a sense, the end of the world as the Church knows it—and we feel fine. All good things must come to an end, and so does this stretch of sacred time. For those new to the Church Calendar, we are arriving at the close of the liturgical year.
The Church year runs from Advent to Pentecost. Next Lord’s Day, you will notice a shift in the liturgical colors as we move from the blossoming green of Pentecost to the royal purple of Advent—the color of longing, promise, and the expectation of the King’s appearing.
Pentecost is the culminating season of the Church Year because it reenacts the mission of the Church—from Jerusalem to Judea to the ends of the earth. Green symbolizes the fertile world God has prepared for harvest. It is the color of gospel life, the color of nations awakened, the color of the Spirit’s renewing work. But on November 30th, we begin the cycle again: expectation, coming, glory, and power.
Why repeat this story year after year?
Because the story of the Father sending the Son, and then sending the Spirit to indwell His Church, is the story of the Gospel. We return again and again to behold the Child born in Bethlehem, the Savior who brought heaven to earth, the Lamb who died and rose, the Lord who ascended and reigns.
The Church Calendar is our glorious repetition—rehearsing what the world was before Christ, what the world has become after Christ, and what the world shall be when Christ is all in all. The end is coming, yes—but in Christ, every ending is simply the beginning of a greater dawn.
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