Sacred Seasons: A Family Guide to Center Your Year Around Jesus

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.

Praise for Sacred Seasons:

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

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 is an incredible gift. It demystifies the church calendar for young families,
inviting them into the beauty of orienting our rhythms and routines around Christ and his church. No longer will observing the church calendar with your kids feel too sophisticated or complicated. Danielle has done all the heavy lifting for parents with full arms, from simple liturgies to delicious doable recipes. An accessible must-have for families seeking to make the rhythms of remembrance part of the heartbeat of their home.”

Abbey Wedgeworth , author of Held