What we are experiencing in the recovery of the church year is not something new or gimmicky. The church year is a gift to the church given by the Holy Spirit as a way of enriching our relationship to Jesus Christ—of restoring a sacred sense of time to our worship. It has withstood the test of time and demonstrated by its staying power that it is worthy of our adoption today.
-Robert Webber, Worship Is a Verb: Celebrating God’s Mighty Deeds of Salvation, Second Edition (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Pub., 1996), 174-175.