Passion Sunday
Passion Sunday | |
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Methodists | |
Liturgical color | Violet |
Observances | Veiling of crucifixes and images |
Date | Fifth Sunday in Lent; Second Sunday before Easter, or the Sunday following this (Roman Rite) |
2023 date | March 26 |
2024 date | March 17 |
2025 date | April 6 |
2026 date | March 22 |
Related to | Passiontide, Palm Sunday |
Passion Sunday is the fifth Sunday in
In Scotland, the day is known as Care Sunday.[1]
Fifth Sunday in Lent
Until 1959, the fifth Sunday in Lent was officially known in the Roman Catholic Church as Passion Sunday..
In 1960, Pope John XXIII's Code of Rubrics changed the name for that Sunday to "First Sunday of the Passion"[3] bringing the name into harmony with the name that Pope Pius XII gave, five years earlier, to the sixth Sunday in Lent, "Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday".
Pope Paul VI's revision in 1969 removed a distinction that existed (although with overlap) between Lent and Passiontide, which began with the fifth Sunday in Lent. The distinction, explicit in the 1960 Code of Rubrics,[4] predates it.[5] He removed from the fifth Sunday in Lent the reference to the Passion.
Although Passiontide as a distinct liturgical season was thus abolished, the Roman Rite liturgy continues to bring the Passion of Christ to mind, from Monday of the fifth week in Lent onward, through the choice of hymns, the use on the weekdays of the fifth week of Lent of
The entrance antiphon of the Mass on the fifth Sunday in Lent begins with the word "Iudica" (older spelling, "Judica"). This provides another name for that Sunday: "Iudica Sunday" or "Judica Sunday",[6] similar to the name "Laetare Sunday" for the fourth Sunday. Because of the custom of veiling crucifixes and statues in the church before Mass on the fifth Sunday in Lent, this Sunday was called Black Sunday in Germany, where the veils, which elsewhere were generally violet, were of black colour.[7]
Those who continue to observe earlier forms of the Roman Rite or of liturgies modelled on it refer to the fifth Sunday in Lent by one or other of its previous names.
Lutheran readings
The historical readings for the fifth Sunday in Lent in the
The three-year lectionary appoints the following readings for the fifth Sunday in Lent:[9]
- Psalm
- A: 116:1–9
- B: 51:10–15
- C: 28:1–9
- 1st Lesson
- 2nd Lesson
- Gospel
Sixth Sunday in Lent
In the
Until 1954, the name of the sixth Sunday in Lent was "Palm Sunday".[13] In 1955, the name became, for 15 years, the "Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday".[14] In 1970, it became "Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord".[15]
Food
In the north of England and parts of Scotland, it is a tradition to eat
References
- ^ "Care Sunday". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
- ^ Dominica de Passione – Missale Romanum, 1920 typical edition Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, p. 156
- ^ Dominica I Passionis – Missale Romanum 1962 Archived 2020-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, p. 118
- ^ The Code of Rubrics speaks of Lent (tempus quadragesimale) as comprising Passiontide (tempus Passionis), but at the same time distinguishes Lent in a narrower sense (tempus Quadragesimae) from Passiontide.
- ^ The distinction is found repeatedly in, for instance, the pre-1960 Ritus servandus in celebratione Missae, which speaks of Passiontide as following Lent (without suggesting that Lenten observances should end at that point), but which also speaks of Lent as extending at least to Wednesday of Holy Week, as in: "In Quadragesima autem a Feria IV Cinerum usque ad Feriam IV Majoris Hebdomadae ..." (Ritus servandus in celebratione Missae, XI, 2).
- ^ Mershman, Francis. "Passion Sunday." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. 6 April 2019 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- ^ Yonge, Charlotte M., ed. (1879). The Monthly Packet of Evening Readings for Members of the English Church. J. and C. Mozley. p. 514.
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary. St. Louis: MorningStar Music Publishers, 1996. 202
- ^ Hymnary. 200–201
- ^ Missale Romanum, 1920 typical edition Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 179–185
- ^ Missale Romanum 1962 Archived 2020-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, pp. 137–140
- ^ Readings for the Sundays of Lent
- ^ Dominica in Palmis – Missale Romanum, 1920 typical edition Archived 2020-03-01 at the Wayback Machine, p. 171
- ^ Dominica II Passionis seu in palmis – Missale Romanum 1962 Archived 2020-02-15 at the Wayback Machine, p. 130
- ^ Dominica in Palmis de Passione Domini – current edition of the Roman Missal
- ISBN 9780199677337.
- ^ Heritage Vegetables, Sue Stickland. London: Gaia Books. p 149 (1998)