Allow the Year of Grace calendar to assist you in counting the days and weeks of this liturgical year. The Year of Grace calendar’s circular display of the liturgical year makes key aspects easily understood. At a glance, you can see the liturgical seasons in their characteristic colors, Sundays on the outer rim, and the days and weeks radiating from the center. The center holds the intriguing storytelling artwork of Sally Wern Comport. Her illustrations of five conversion stories—five transformative encounters with Jesus—call us to reflect more deeply on our own ongoing conversion to Christ. How are we experiencing Christ’s call in this moment of life? The pictures also invite us to learn more about the way the Church welcomes and forms new Catholic Christians through the newly revised Order of Christian Initiation of Adults.
The illustrations in the Year of Grace calendar with these conversion stories may remind us of various moments in our lives in Christ. At the center of the calendar, Zacchaeus is looking down at Jesus from high up in the tree where he has climbed to get a better look at him. This is the moment he hears Jesus calling him, and when his life is beginning to change forever (Luke 19:1-10). In the four corners we see other people who are being transformed: the woman at the well by conversation (John 4), the man born blind through a healing (John 9:1–12), Mary, Martha, and the crowd who witness the raising of Lazarus (John 11:1–45), and the first disciples as they are called by Jesus (Matthew 4:18–22). Each one hears a call or attracted or compelled in some way. Measuring 26”W x 26”h, the Year of Grace calendar is laminated and ready to use immediately.
