Scholars know that around the end of the ninth century or the beginning of the tenth century, monastic workshops began to put the prayers and lessons for Advent Sundays at the front of the new liturgical books which they were making.[1] Scholars do not know why this was done, but because of the way books were laid out, Advent would come to be thought of by Christians in the West as the beginning of the church year, instead of its conclusion.
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