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Folklore: Days of Lent
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Subject: Folklore: Days of Lent From: DMcG Date: 23 Mar 03 - 03:17 AM If just read that the last Monday before Lent was known as 'Collop Monday' in Cumberland, according to Lucy Broadwood, as a Google search shows its also called this in (parts of) Australia. So we have at least Carling Sunday Collop Monday Shrove Tuesday Ash Wednesday at one end and Spy Wednesday Maundy Thursday Good Friday at the other. What other days are named, (or have alternative names to these?) |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Fiolar Date: 23 Mar 03 - 06:02 AM When I was growing up in Ireland "Spy Wednesday" was known as such by reason of the legend that it was called so due to the fact that on that day Christ was spied upon by Judas on behalf of the Sanhedrin. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Padre Date: 23 Mar 03 - 09:29 AM The Fourth Sunday in Lent is known as: Mothering Sunday or Rose Sunday or Refreshment Sunday The Fifth Sunday in Lent is also called Passion Sunday |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: DMcG Date: 23 Mar 03 - 10:01 AM Rose and Refreshment Sunday are new to me. Do you know why it has those names, Padre? |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Padre Date: 23 Mar 03 - 10:09 AM Rose Sunday is so called because the priest wears rose-colored vestments (chasuble and stole) on this day. Refreshement Sunday refers to the Gospel lesson for the day: Jesus' feeding of the multitudes with five loaves and two small fishes [St. John 6:1-14]. Mothering Sunday may come from the Epistle lesson which describes Jerusalem 'which is above, which is the mother of us all....' [Galatians 4:21-31] It may also be called that from the custom of allowing apprentices to visit their mothers on this day. |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Nigel Parsons Date: 23 Mar 03 - 10:27 AM Slightly outside the period quoted (Lent) but the First Sunday after Easter is known as "Low Sunday", but I much prefer the alternate name: Quasimodo: from the introit for the day "quasi modo geniti infantes ("as new born babes...etc") It rings a bell somehow! Nigel |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Gloredhel Date: 24 Mar 03 - 12:58 AM Fourth Sunday in Lent is known in the Roman Catholic Church as "Laetare Sunday" after it's theme (Rejoice! We're more than half way to Easter) and the first word of the Introit (first chant of the Mass, not that many people use the chants anymore). |
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Subject: RE: Folklore: Days of Lent From: Dave Bryant Date: 24 Mar 03 - 10:38 AM One view of the origin of Mothering Sunday is that it came from a Roman/Greek holiday where there were celebrations in honour of the mother of gods, known in Greece as Rhea and in Rome as Cybele. A ceremony dedicated to the worship of Cybele was incorporated into the Roman celebration called Hilaria which took place in March. It is believed that this was adapted for a Christian ceremony dedicated to the Mother Church in which people visited the place of their baptism or the cathedral - Mother Church - of their area. Mothering Sunday was also known as Mid-Lent or Mid and takes place on the fourth Sunday of Lent. More recently, it was a day when children, mainly daughters, who had gone to work as domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother and family. |
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