Note: This project is currently archived. If you’d like to sponsor the creation of future calendars, or if you’re a designer who’d like to execute future calendars, please email me: madeleinecomics (at) gmail.

Liturgical calendar 

A free printable calendar I designed around the liturgical seasons (rather than being split up by calendar months). Designed to help me keep time, visualize the seasons, and cultivate a life grounded by sacred time.

I think a lot about how different tools shape our perception of time. I think the way we experience time is deeply linked with the ways that capitalism shapes and warps our souls, and I’m interested in tools and rituals that invite us outside of “productive” time and into sacred and communal time.

I designed the calendar to be split up by liturgical seasons, rather than calendar months, with Sunday (Christian sabbath & reminder of resurrection) as the core of the week.

Based on this calendar. Contact me if you’d like to collaborate on a calendar for your tradition.

A few quotes from Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath, which has deeply influenced how I think about time and the sacred:

“Judaism is a religion of time aiming at the sanctification of time. Unlike the space-minded man to whom time is unvaried, iterative, homogeneous, to whom all hours alike, qualitiless, empty shells, the Bible senses the diversified character of time. There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time, to be attached to sacred events, to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year. The Sabbaths are our great cathedrals; and our Holy of Holies is a shrine that neither the Romans nor the Germans were able to burn”