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Laetare Sunday (Church Latin: [leˈta.re]; Classical Latin: [lae̯ˈtaːre]; English: / liːˈtɛəri /) is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration within the austere period of Lent. This Sunday gets its name from the first few words (incipit ...
In the Byzantine Rite, i.e., the Eastern Orthodox Great Lent (Greek: Μεγάλη Τεσσαρακοστή or Μεγάλη Νηστεία, meaning "Great 40 Days" and "Great Fast" respectively) is the most important fasting season in the church year. [61] The 40 days of Great Lent include Sundays, and begin on Clean Monday.
Memorial Saturdays—2nd, 3rd, and 4th Saturdays of Great Lent—commemorative Divine Liturgies and memorial services for the dead are celebrated on the; Saint Gregory Palamas—2nd Sunday of Lent—5th Sunday before Pascha (35 days) Adoration of the Cross 4th Sunday before Pascha and 3rd Sunday of Lent (28 days)
Lent is a holy time celebrated in the Christian calendar, and the dates change every year. Find out when the event that leads up to Easter Sunday starts and when Lent ends in 2023.
The colour rose may be used, where it is the practice, on Laetare Sunday (4th Sunday of Lent). On Palm Sunday the colour since 1970 is red, by earlier rules violet or purple, with red being used after 1955 for the blessing of the palms.
In his second year it had been Epiphany III (Bach's chorale cantata for Epiphany IV was composed a decade later, see above). In his third year in Leipzig the last Sunday before Pre-Lent was Epiphany V, on which occasion he staged a cantata by Johann Ludwig Bach. In the Picander cycle the last Sunday before Pre-Lent was also Epiphany V, but ...
In the York Breviary "Media vita" was sung as an antiphon at Compline on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, Laetare. [2] In the Sarum Breviary it was the antiphon from the Third (Oculi) to the Fifth (Judica) Sundays of Lent, [3] a position it also occupies (in reduced format) in the Dominican Rite. [4]
The Refreshment Sundays are: Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent. Gaudete Sunday, the third Sunday in Advent. Of these, the better known is Laetare Sunday, and if reference is made to a single "Refreshment Sunday" or "Rose Sunday" it is usually this Sunday that is meant. [1] It is also called Mid-Lent Sunday, Mothering Sunday, Mother's ...