I've been trying to buy a 2008 calendar to put on my prayer desk, something that will keep track of the liturgical day, color, feast, memorial (mandatory or optional), commemorations, or solemnity. Tonini's didn't have what I wanted. Hopefully, St. Joseph's will have a parish calendar I can get with no difficulty. And that's made me think about the liturgical year.
The church year is a road map for spiritual growth. Some of my earliest introduction to the old Roman Breviary was Fr. Pius Parsch, and his comments for each day, as well as each canonical hour. Now, Fr. Parsch is very dated, both in language and in view of God, but it must be said that he entered fully into the spiritual path of the liturgical year. I do not recall any book that developed the path of the liturgical year. (Hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong).
It makes sense that the first thing to do would be to pay especial attention to each day using all the material available, i.e., LOTH, Mass readings, Mystery of the Rosary, reading from the Church Father's, even the saint of the day. Then I suppose you interpret it all in light of the season's theme. A next step might be developing meditation topics for each day, as well as daily thematic summaries. Perhaps after that, a meditation topic, followed by a lectio suggestion.
I have no idea what any of this might lead to, but it's certainly going to be taking up some of my time. If anyone should be interested, write to me and we can talk about it.
Peace
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