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Denver, Colo., Feb 10, 2024 / 09:00 am (CNA). Sunday, Jan 28, was Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima on Sunday, Feb. 4, and now Quinquagesima on Sunday, Feb. 11, is the last Sunday before Shr. ....
Mardi Gras celebration in Binche, Belgium. / Marie-Claire/wikimedia. (CC BY 3.0 SA)Denver, Colo., Feb 26, 2022 / 07:21 am (CNA).Sunday, Feb. 27 is Septuagesima Sunday, followed by Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima Sundays. Sunday kicks off Carnival season, which comes right before Shrovetide, which culminates in Shrove Tuesday - more popularly known as Mardi Gras.If all but the last of those holidays sounds foreign to you, you are likely not alone - they haven t been officially a part of the Roman Rite s liturgical calendar since the 1960s, after the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.These strange-sounding days once marked a period of pre-Lenten preparation and feasting that is still observed by some rites within the Catholic Church and other Christian traditions."Septuagesima is kept in the personal ordinariates established by Pope Benedict XVI for former Anglicans, now within the full communion of the Catholic Church," said Father James Bradley, a priest from the Personal O ....
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