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2. Quinquagesima - Wikipedia

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   Since the forty days of Lent do not include Sundays, the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days. The name Estomihi is derived from the incipit or opening words of the Introit for the Sunday, Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias , ("Be Thou unto me a God, a Protector ...

3. Sunday school - Wikipedia

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   Sunday school, Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943. Photographed by Ansel Adams. Baptist Sunday school group in Amherstburg, Ontario, [ca. 1910] The story behind Robert Raikes' sunday school. A Sunday school, sometimes known as a Sabbath school, is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes.

4. Ash Wednesday - Wikipedia

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   In Iceland, children "pin small bags of ashes on the back of some unsuspecting person", [124] dress up in costumes, and sing songs for candy. [125] In Hungary if someone in the village didn't receive ash, they "shared their blessing" by rubbing their foreheads together, and the Csángó people of Moldova even cover the pots with ashes to bring ...

5. Lenten calendar - Wikipedia

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   A Lenten calendar or Lent calendar is a special calendar used by Western Christians to count the days of Lent in anticipation of Easter.Lenten calendars traditionally start on Ash Wednesday and conclude on Easter Day.

6. Three Sundays of Commemoration - Wikipedia

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   This preparatory period for Lent generally lasts 3 weeks in most rites. These Sundays correspond to Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima in the Roman rite. These designations come from the counting system used in antiquity and designate the decade in which each of these Sundays falls. They precede the first Sunday of Lent (Quadragesima ...

7. Quadragesima Sunday - Wikipedia

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   In contemporary practice, Quadragesima Sunday (as the First Sunday of Lent) remains a key liturgical event. Many Catholics attend Mass, receive ashes if they missed Ash Wednesday, and commit to Lenten practices such as prayer , charity , or giving up personal indulgences.