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  2. Liturgical colours - Wikipedia

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    Lenten Array altar frontal by George Pace at St Augustine's, Edgbaston Red altar array on Palm Sunday in St Mary's Church, Nottingham Most Anglican churches use the colours appointed in the Roman Rite, usually in its post-1969 form, with the exception of Sarum Blue replacing violet for Advent, but some use the earlier form, with, for instance ...

  3. Lenten shrouds - Wikipedia

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    The significance of the Lenten shrouds has been explained in a variety of ways. [7] The French liturgist Prosper Guéranger explained that "the ceremony of veiling the Crucifix, during Passiontide, expresses the humiliation, to which our Saviour subjected himself, of hiding himself when the Jews threatened to stone him, as is related in the Gospel of Passion Sunday".

  4. Ambrosian Rite - Wikipedia

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    The Church of Milan's own liturgy is named Ambrosian after its patron saint Ambrose. [3] The Ambrosian Rite evolved and developed from the 4th century onwards. [ 3 ] There is no direct evidence that the rite was the composition of St. Ambrose, but his name has been associated with it since the 8th century.

  5. Traditional Ambrosian Rite - Wikipedia

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    The liturgical year of the Ambrosian Rite begins the First Sunday of Advent, which however takes place 2 weeks earlier than in the Roman Rite, so that there are six Sundays in Advent, and the key-day of the beginning of Advent is not St. Andrew's Day (30 November) but St. Martin's Day (11 November), which begins the Sanctorale.

  6. Lent - Wikipedia

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    The violet color is often associated with penance and detachment. Similar Christian penitential practice is seen in other Christian countries, sometimes associated with fasting. [35] The English word Lent is a shortened form of the Old English word lencten, meaning "spring season", as its Dutch language cognate lente (Old Dutch lentin) [36 ...

  7. Parament - Wikipedia

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    In most Christian churches using paraments (including Roman Catholic and a wide variety of Protestant denominations), the liturgical paraments change in color depending on the season of the church year. Advent - purple (or in some traditions, blue) Christmas - white; Lent - purple; Easter - white; Pentecost, Good Friday and the feasts of ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Lenten veil - Wikipedia

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    The Lenten cloth of the Catholic town church of St. Martin in Rheinfelden, Switzerland (3.24 x 2.53 m) remained hidden in the church altar for over 400 years and was only discovered by chance in 1977 as part of a civil defense exercise. It is the only old Lenten cloth currently known to exist in Switzerland.