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Massey H. Shepherd
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LOCATION: Sacramento, CA, United States
Hodges Professor Emeritus of Liturgics, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California. Author of The Worship of the Church and others.
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Church year, annual cycle of seasons and days observed in Christian churches in commemoration of the life, death, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and of Christian virtues as exhibited in the lives of the saints. The church year has deep roots in the primitive human impulse to mark certain times…
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