septuagesima

This traditional event is held either on the weekend of Septuagesima or during Easter.

Most commonly the season begins on Septuagesima, the first Sunday before Ash Wednesday.

Septuagesima Sunday is the third Sunday before Lent begins.

The season begins on 14 January and ends on the Saturday before Septuagesima Sunday.

Septuagesima (from the Latin word for "seventieth") is a two-and-a-half-week period before Lent.

Bach wrote the solo cantata in Leipzig for the third Sunday before Lent, called Septuagesima.

The Prayer of Christ (Tuesday after Septuagesima)

Likewise, violet vestments are worn, except on feasts, from Septuagesima Sunday until Holy Thursday.

The Gospel reading for Septuagesima week is the parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16).

In the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite omission of the Alleluia begins with Septuagesima.

The following Sundays, until Septuagesima, were named as the "First (etc.) Sunday after Epiphany".

Septuagesima Sunday (9th Sunday before Easter)

The form of the Roman Rite that includes this special period of 17 days refers to it as the season of Septuagesima.

Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sunday are the last three Sundays before Lent.

Septuagesima was also the day on which one could begin a forty-day Lenten fast that excluded from its observance Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

There is no Septuagesima; two Sundays (Sexagesima and Quinquagesima) prepare for Lent.

Churches in the Continuing Anglican movement that use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (or the various missals based upon it) also observe Septuagesima.

Septuagesima - 63 days (ninth Sunday) before Easter (Pre-Vatican II Calendar)

He also obtained from the pope a dispensation allowing the brotherhood of St. Peter's to eat flesh from Septuagesima to Quinquagesima inclusive.

The Alleluia is sung for the first time since the beginning of Lent (or, in the pre-Vatican II rite, since Septuagesima).

The Old Testament: Nineteen Sermons on the First Lessons for the Sundays from Septuagesima (1851)

The Pre-Lenten Season (see also Septuagesima) is the period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.

In 1616 Lent started on 23 January, Septuagesima Sunday, and ended on 7 April, the Sunday after Easter.

He composed the solo cantata for soprano in Leipzig in 1727 for the Sunday Septuagesima and first performed it on 9 February 1727.

The earlier form of the Roman Rite, with its references to Quinquagesima, Sexagesima and Septuagesima, continues to be observed in some communities.