Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The third Sunday before Lent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A period of seventy days.
- noun [capitalized] The third Sunday before Lent: more fully called
Septuagesima Sunday .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is about seventy days before Easter.
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- noun Christianity A
Sunday in theChristian calendar nine weeks beforeEaster Sunday .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Lady and the Unicorn takes place during two years, starting during Lent-Eastertide 1490 and ending in Septuagesima 1492.
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Why the day (or the week, or the period) has the name Septuagesima, and the next Sunday
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Fro the Sondaie called Septuagesima (because there are seuentie daies, betwiene that and the octaues of Easter) thei would vs to renue the memorie of Christes Fasting, Passion, Death and
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All that we need notice here is that this penitential season, which at a considerably later period was thrown back to the Sunday known as Septuagesima (strictly the Sunday within the period of seventy days before Easter), began earlier or later according to the day on which Easter Sunday fell, while the later additions at the other end -- such as Trinity Sunday, Corpus
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Fro the Sondaie called Septuagesima (because there are seuentie daies, betwiene that and the octaues of Easter) thei would vs to renue the memorie of Christes Fasting, Passion, Death and Bewrialle.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In liturgical literature the name "Septuagesima" occurs for the first time in the Gelasian Sacramentary.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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Therefore one could propose it especially for occasions when there is some particular richness of the old missal of which one could benefit (especially if in the other calendar there is nothing special foreseen): for example, for the time of Septuagesima, for the four Embertides or for the Vigil of Pentecost, and maybe even in the case of certain special communities, both of consecrated life and of brotherhoods or fraternities.
Cardinal Cañizares Writes About Usus Antiquior and Liturgical Reform 2009
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The word Alleluja is removed from the entire liturgy on Septuagesima Sunday; on Passion Sunday, the doxology is removed from the Invitatory, the Responsories, and the Mass.
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Today, at first Vespers of Septuagesima Sunday, we sing the Alleluia for the last time.
Septuagesima John 2009
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The photos, taken by "Newman" of Rinascimento Sacro, capture the Mass of Septuagesima Sunday (calendar of the usus antiquior) which was celebrated by Fr. Vincenzo Nuara, O. P, founder of Giovanie e Tradizione as well as the "Priestly Friends of Summorum Pontificum".
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