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  2. Ember days - Wikipedia

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    In the Episcopal Church, the September Ember Days are still (optionally) observed on the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after Holy Cross Day, [19] so that if September 14 is a Sunday, Monday, or Tuesday, the Ember Days fall on the following Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday (in the second week of September) whereas they fall a week later (in the ...

  3. Liturgical year - Wikipedia

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    First ordinary time, includes the days between Christmastide and Lent. [20] Lent is the period of purification and penance that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends on Holy Thursday. [21] The Mass of the Lord's Supper on the evening of Holy Thursday marks the beginning of the Easter Triduum, which includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter ...

  4. Laetare Sunday - Wikipedia

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    Laetare Sunday (Church Latin: ; Classical Latin: [lae̯ˈtaːre]; English: / l iː ˈ t ɛər i /) 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.

  5. Lent - Wikipedia

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    [59] [60] (In the Episcopal Church, the main U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion, the 1979 Book of Common Prayer identifies Holy Week--comprising Palm/Passion Sunday through Holy Saturday--as a separate season after Lent; [61] but the Days of Special Devotion, to be observed by special acts of discipline and self-denial, include the weekdays ...

  6. Lenten calendar - Wikipedia

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    Lenten calendars traditionally start on Ash Wednesday and conclude on Easter Day. As with an Advent calendar, a Lenten calendar often has windows or flaps containing "a scriptural verse for each day, a reflection question, and an action that is appropriate and achievable". [1]

  7. The Calendar of the Church Year - Wikipedia

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    The Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer identifies four categories of feasts: Principal Feasts, other Feasts of our Lord (including Sundays), other Major Feasts, and minor feasts. Two major fast days are also listed (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday). In addition to these categories, further distinctions are made between feasts, to determine ...

  8. Palm Sunday - Wikipedia

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    Blessing palms outside an Episcopal Church in the United States Palm Sunday and other named days and day ranges around Lent and Easter in Western Christianity, with the fasting days of Lent numbered. In the Episcopal and many other Anglican churches and in Lutheran churches, as well, the day is officially called The Sunday of the Passion: Palm ...

  9. Book of Common Prayer (1979) - Wikipedia

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    Title page of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. The 1979 Book of Common Prayer [note 1] is the official primary liturgical book of the U.S.-based Episcopal Church.An edition in the same tradition as other versions of the Book of Common Prayer used by the churches within the Anglican Communion and Anglicanism generally, it contains both the forms of the Eucharistic liturgy and the Daily Office ...