In the traditional Latin-Rite calendar, today is Septuagesima, or seventy-days before Easter. Next Sunday follows with Sexagesima, sixty-days and then Quinquagesima, fifty days before the season of Quadragesima, or Lent in English from the old English word, lencten, referring to the lengthening of days.
This pre-Lent preparation was banished by Bugnini and Paul VI but recently re-established in the Ordinariate Missal, a good hope for the future under a liturgically-minded Pope who will restore all things.
Today, in the traditional Mass, the Tract is sung/said, and the vestments are violet. The New Liturgical Movement has a post about what happens after Vespers of the night before.
Have a blessed Sunday and pray for a restoration and an end to the insanity.
A corporal work of mercy.
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Showing posts with label Seasons of the Church. Show all posts
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Sunday, 24 January 2016
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