"of the color violet in the Roman Rite. The Sunday is considered a day of relaxation from normal Lenten rigours; a day of hope with Easter at last within sight. Traditionally, weddings (otherwise banned during Lent) could be performed on this day, and servants were released from service for the day to visit their mothers (hence 'Mothering Sunday'). Laetare Sunday is exactly 21 days before Easter Sunday, a moveable feast based on the cycles of the moon. The date can be any between 1 March and 4 April inclusive; occurrence in April is considered to be uncommon; the last occurrence"
"for the Third Sunday of Easter (then called the Second Sunday After Easter). Thus pre- and post-1969 references to the day may differ by a week. In many Catholic dioceses (Seville, Capuchins) this day is called the feast of Our Lady Mother of the Good Shepherd; at Jerusalem and in the churches of the Franciscans it is called the feast of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ; in the Greek Church it is called ion myrophoron (Sunday of the women who brought ointments to the sepulchre of Christ); the Armenians celebrate on this Sunday the dedication of the first Christian church"
"known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday, with the Wednesday before Easter being known as Spy Wednesday. The last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for ""Three Days""). Many churches begin celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a"
"19 Third Friday: January 19 Third Sunday: January 21 11th Sunday before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): January 21 Sunday closest to January 22: January 21 Last week of January: January 22–26 Fourth Monday: January 22 63 days before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): January 27 Last Saturday: January 27 9th Sunday before Easter in Western Christianity: January 28 10th Sunday before Pascha in Eastern Christianity: January 28 Last Sunday: January 28 January 30 or the nearest Sunday: January 28 Monday Closest to January 29: January 29 Last Monday in January: January 29 Second Monday before Clean Monday in Eastern Christianity: January 29–31 January"
"not known. In the Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches, the ""Third Sunday of Pascha"" (i.e. the second Sunday after Easter) is called the 'Sunday of the Myrrhbearers'. The Scripture readings appointed for the services on this day emphasize the role of these individuals in the Death and Resurrection of Jesus: Matins Gospel—, Divine Liturgy Epistle— and Gospel—. Since this day commemorates events surrounding not only the Resurrection, but also the entombment of Christ, some of the hymns from Holy Saturday are repeated. These include the Troparion of the Day: ""The noble Joseph..."" (but with a new line added at"
"Easter Easter, also called Pascha (Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial after his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. Most Christians refer to the week before Easter as ""Holy Week""—it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating the Maundy and Last Supper, as well"
"Holy Monday Holy Monday or Great and Holy Monday (Greek: ""Μεγάλη Δευτέρα"", ""Megale Deutera"") is the Monday of Holy Week, which is the week before Easter. It is the third day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity, after Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, and the second day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday. The Gospels tell us of some of the events that actually occurred on the day of the Biblical Holy Monday. Some of the most notable and recognizable of these were the cursing of the fig tree (, ), the questioning of Jesus' authority (),"
"Jubilate Sunday Jubilate Sunday is the third Sunday after Easter. It is called this because in the liturgy of the Catholic Church the first line of the introit for that day's Mass is """"Jubilate Deo omnis terra"""" (""Shout with joy to God, all the earth"") from Psalm 66 (65). The Lutheran Church historically named this Sunday as the fourth Sunday of Easter following Misericordia Domini and preceding Cantate (see Luther for the Busy Man by P.D. Pahl, 1974, Adelaide). The liturgy for this day, and for the next two Sundays, continues to celebrate the Easter resurrection. Johann Sebastian Bach composed"
"Holy Saturday Holy Saturday (), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called ""Joyous Saturday"" or ""the Saturday of Light"" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. In Eastern Orthodoxy this day, known as Holy and Great Saturday, is also called The Great Sabbath since it is"
"Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the Easter Triduum may overlap or displace part of Holy Week or Easter itself within that additional liturgical period. Holy"
"Whit Tuesday Whit Tuesday (syn. ""Pentecost Tuesday"", ""Whitsun Tuesday"") is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter. ""Whit"" relates either to the white robes worn by those baptized on Pentecost, or to the French word ""huit,"" since Pentecost is the eighth Sunday after Easter. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Whit Tuesday is known as the ""Third Day of the Trinity"" and is part of the Feast of Pentecost. Not only monasteries and cathedrals, but"
"found in the liturgical book known as the ""Triódion"" (which continues to Easter Even). It is 22 days long because it begins on the Sunday before Septuagesima, but not 24 since the Byzantine Lent commences on a Monday instead of a Wednesday. In 1894, Oscar Wilde told the actor Charles Brookfield, who had complained about Wilde's conducting rehearsals for his play ""An Ideal Husband"" on Christmas Day, ""the only festival of the Church I keep is Septuagesima"". Septuagesima Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is"
"day before Palm Sunday is Sabbatum in Traditione Symboli. This, the Blessing of the Font, the extra Masses pro Baptizatis in Ecclesiâ Hyemali on Easter Eve and every day of Easter Week, and the name of the first Sunday after Easter ""in albis depositis"", show even more of a lingering memory of the old Easter Baptisms than the similar survivals in the Roman Rite. Holy Week is Hebdomada Authentica. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Day are named as in the Roman Rite. The five Sundays after Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi follow, as in"
"countries where it is not a Holy Day of Obligation. In such countries it is celebrated on the following Sunday (the forty-third day of Eastertide). The nine days from that feast until the Saturday before Pentecost (inclusive) are days of preparation for the Holy Spirit the Paraclete, which inspired the form of prayer called a novena. Before the 1969 revision of the calendar, the Sundays were called First Sunday ""after"" Easter, Second Sunday ""after"" Easter, etc. The Sunday preceding the feast of the Ascension of the Lord was sometimes, though not officially, called Rogation Sunday, and when the Ascension had"
"– Other and/or later: The third Sunday after Easter is called Jubilate. Composed before the numbered cycles: 1 – First year in Leipzig, : 2 – Second year cycle, : 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : 5 – Other and/or later: The fourth Sunday after Easter is called Cantate. Composed before the numbered cycles: 1 – First cantata cycle, : 2 – Second year cycle, : 3 – Third year in Leipzig, : 4 – Picander cycle, libretto planned for : The fifth Sunday after Easter is called Rogate. 1 –"
"of Saint Tetha in Cornwall. Whit Tuesday Whit Tuesday (syn. ""Pentecost Tuesday"", ""Whitsun Tuesday"") is the Christian holiday celebrated the day after Pentecost Monday, the third day of the week beginning on Pentecost. Pentecost is a movable feast in the Christian calendar dependent upon the date of Easter. ""Whit"" relates either to the white robes worn by those baptized on Pentecost, or to the French word ""huit,"" since Pentecost is the eighth Sunday after Easter. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Whit Tuesday is known as the ""Third Day of the Trinity"" and is part of the Feast of Pentecost. Not"
"Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. In Catholic, Episcopal, and other denominations, and in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, worship services on Palm Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday"
"Gaudete Sunday Gaudete Sunday ( ) is the third Sunday of Advent in the liturgical calendar of the Western Church, including the Roman Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, Lutheran Churches, and other mainline Protestant churches. It can fall on any date from 11 December to 17 December. The day takes its common name from the Latin word ""Gaudete"" (""Rejoice""), the first word of the introit of this day's mass: This may be translated as: ""Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice. Let your forbearance be known to all, for the Lord is near at hand; have no anxiety"
"with Saint Mary Magdalene for Jesus; therefore the event is markedly similar to a mourning event among the people. Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the"
"third Sundays of November, it is also considered as the beginning of a liturgical year. The Holy week or passion week (""Hasha"") is the week before Easter and the last week of Great Lent, this includes Palm Sunday (Hosanna- Commemorating princely entry of Christ into Jerusalem), Maundy Thursday (Pesach- Commemorating last meal or passover of Jesus Christ with his disciples and the Holy Communion was instituted on this day), Good Friday (Holy Friday- Commemorating crucifixion of Christ at Golgotha), Joyous Saturday, and Easter (Resurrection Sunday- Commemorating Resurrection of Christ). Christmas is celebrated by all members of the Church, to commemorate"
"three church cantatas for the occasion observed in the Lutheran church, based on the prescribed readings, the epistle reading, , ""Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man"", and the gospel reading, , the announcement of the Second Coming from the Farewell discourse: Jubilate Sunday Jubilate Sunday is the third Sunday after Easter. It is called this because in the liturgy of the Catholic Church the first line of the introit for that day's Mass is """"Jubilate Deo omnis terra"""" (""Shout with joy to God, all the earth"") from Psalm 66 (65). The Lutheran Church historically named this Sunday as the"
"first on 4 June 1724, a shortened version in 1726, and the complete version in 1731. Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated in all the Western liturgical churches: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Methodist. The Sundays following Pentecost, until Advent, are numbered from this day. In traditional Catholic usage, the ""First"
"the feast of the Holy Sepulchre of Christ; in the Greek Church it is called ion myrophoron (Sunday of the women who brought ointments to the sepulchre of Christ); the Armenians celebrate on this Sunday the dedication of the first Christian church on Mount Sion. The third Sunday is called from the Introit ""Jubilate"" and the Latin Church has assigned to it the feast of the Patronage of St. Joseph (double second class); the Greeks call it the Sunday of the Paralytic, from its Gospel. The Oriental Churches on Wednesday after the third Sunday celebrate with a very solemn Office"
"Holy Wednesday In Christianity, Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Holy and Great Wednesday (in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches), is the Wednesday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday). In the New Testament account of Holy Week, after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered and plotted to kill Jesus before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As he sat at the supper table with his disciples, a woman named"
"Septuagesima Septuagesima (in full, Septuagesima Sunday) is the name for the ninth Sunday before Easter, the third before Ash Wednesday. The term is sometimes applied to the seventy days starting on Septuagesima Sunday and ending on the Saturday after Easter. Alternatively, the term is sometimes applied also to the period commonly called Shrovetide or Gesimatide (the Pre-Lenten Season) that begins on this day and ends on Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday, when Lent begins. The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also called ""Shrove Sunday."" The"
"Missal, which called this Sunday the Second Sunday of Easter. In the third edition of this Missal, promulgated in 2000 but published only in 2002, the Sunday took what is now its official name: ""Second Sunday of Easter or of Divine Mercy"". In Anglican churches, the Second Sunday of Easter is widely known as Low Sunday, both because rituals are lower than they were the week before, on Easter Day, and because church attendance is usually a fraction of what it was on the feast day. Even the Churchman's Ordo Kalendar, which contains all saints' and holy days, refers to"
"Triodion The Triodion (, ""Triōdion""; Slavonic: Постнаѧ Трїωдь, ""Postnaya Triod""; , Albanian: ""Triod/Triodi""), also called the Lenten Triodion (Τριῴδιον κατανυκτικόν, ""Triodion katanyktikon""), is the liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church. The book contains the propers for the fasting period preceding Easter and for the weeks leading up to the fast. The canons for weekday Matins in the Triodion contain only three odes and so are known as ""triodes"" after which the Triodion takes its name. The period which the book covers extends from the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee (the tenth week before Pascha (Easter): twenty-two days"
"day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter. While the first day of Easter Week is called ""Easter Day"" or ""Easter Sunday"", the other days in the week may be designated according to any of the following patterns: (1) ""Monday of Easter Week"" (e.g. in the Church of England's ""Common Worship"" calendar), (2) ""Monday in Easter Week"" (e.g., in the Anglican Church's ""Book of Common Prayer"" calendar), or (3) ""Easter Monday"". In former years, Easter, as the most important celebration in Christianity, was observed for a week, and it still is celebrated in the liturgy of the Roman Catholic"
"Sexagesima Sexagesima , or, in full, Sexagesima Sunday, is the name for the second Sunday before Ash Wednesday in the Gregorian Rite liturgical calendar of the Roman Catholic Church, and also in that of some Protestant denominations, particularly those with Anglican and Lutheran origins. The name ""Sexagesima"" is derived from the Latin ""sexagesimus"", meaning ""sixtieth,"" and appears to be a back-formation of Quinquagesima, the term formerly used to denote the last Sunday before Lent (the latter name alluding to the fact that there are fifty days between that Sunday and Easter, if one counts both days themselves in the total"
"Trinity Sunday Trinity Sunday is the first Sunday after Pentecost in the Western Christian liturgical calendar, and the Sunday of Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. Trinity Sunday celebrates the Christian doctrine of the Trinity, the three Persons of God: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Trinity Sunday is celebrated in all the Western liturgical churches: Roman Catholic, Anglican, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Methodist. The Sundays following Pentecost, until Advent, are numbered from this day. In traditional Catholic usage, the ""First Sunday After Pentecost"" is on the same day as ""Trinity Sunday"". In the revised Roman rite,"
"called Passion Sunday, has the official name of the First Sunday in Passiontide, and Palm Sunday has the additional name of the Second Sunday in Passiontide. In Sunday and ferial Masses (but not on feasts celebrated in the first of these two weeks) the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Entrance Antiphon and at the Lavabo, as well as in the responds in the Divine Office. In the post-1969 form of the Roman Rite, ""Passion Sunday"" and ""Palm Sunday"" are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called ""Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion"". The former Passion Sunday became"
"Maundy Thursday Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday, and Thursday of Mysteries, among other names) is the Christian holy day falling on the Thursday before Easter. It commemorates the foot washing (Maundy) and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, as described in the canonical gospels. It is the fifth day of Holy Week, preceded by Holy Wednesday and followed by Good Friday. ""Maun-"" is from Old Norse, present of munu meaning shall or will; akin to Old English gemynd meaning mind. The date is always between March 19 and"
"February 12 Second Tuesday: February 13 Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 13 46 days before Easter (Western Christianity): February 14 Third Thursday: February 15 Friday after Ash Wednesday (Western Christianity): February 15 Thursday of the 8th week before Pascha (Eastern Christianity): February 15 Third Friday: February 16 First Sunday of Lent in (Western Christianity): February 18 Sunday of Cheesefare week (Eastern Christianity): February 18 Week of February 22: February 18–24 Monday after Sunday of Forgiveness (Eastern Christianity): February 19 Third Monday: February 19 Last Friday: February 23 First Saturday of Great Lent (Eastern Christianity): February 24 Last Saturday:"