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The Anglican Church of Canada's 'Book of Common Prayer' (1962) retains the date of 7 August, but as a commemoration, not a feast day. [7] Many Eastern Churches celebrate the feast on 1 January. [1] The United Methodist Church observes the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus on 1 January, with the liturgical colour of the day being white/gold. [8]
6 August: The Transfiguration of the Lord – feast; 7 August: Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs – optional memorial; 7 August: Saint Cajetan, Priest – optional memorial; 8 August: Saint Dominic, Priest – memorial; 9 August: Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, Virgin and Martyr – optional memorial
Fifty days, says Censorinus, were added to the calendar and a day taken from each month of thirty days to provide for the two winter months: Januarius (January) and Februarius (February), both of which had 28 days (The Natal Day, XX). This was a lunar year of 354 days but, because of the Roman superstition about even numbers, an additional day ...
The Old Catholic Church celebrates the Transfiguration typically on 6 August, according to the Roman rite calendar; however, every local Old Catholic Church throughout the world has the option to celebrate this major feast on a different day. The Old Catholic theological view of the Transfiguration shares much in common with the Eastern ...
Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
Classical Latin is the form of the Latin language used by the ancient Romans in Classical Latin literature. In the latest and narrowest philological model its use spanned the Golden Age of Latin literature—broadly the 1st century BC and the early 1st century AD—possibly extending to the Silver Age—broadly the 1st and 2nd centuries.
The practice of translating Anglican liturgy into Latin translations continued with the 1662 prayer book, [5] [6] as well as the 1979 Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States. [7] Calls for vernacular liturgy were a hallmark of the condemned Jansenist movement of the 17th century.
On 10 August of the same year, Pope Pius officially included the Feast of the Most Precious Blood of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the General Roman Calendar, for celebration on the first Sunday in July, that is the first Sunday after 30 June, which is the anniversary of the liberation of the city of Rome from the insurgents. [3] [4]