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The Refreshment Sundays or Rose Sundays are Sundays within the two major fasts observed in Western Christianity, Lent and Advent. On these days, the fast was allowed to be relaxed, hence the name "Refreshment Sunday". Correspondingly, the liturgical colours of the season are replaced with rose, hence the name "Rose Sunday". The Refreshment ...
This Sunday is currently also known as Mothering Sunday, [4] Refreshment Sunday, mid-Lent Sunday (in French mi-carême) and Rose Sunday (either because the golden rose sent by Popes to Catholic sovereigns used to be blessed at this time, or because the use of rose-colored rather than violet vestments was permitted on this day). [5]
Mothering Sunday coincides with Laetare Sunday, also called Mid-Lent Sunday or Refreshment Sunday, a day of respite from fasting halfway through the penitential season of Lent. Its association with mothering originates in the texts read during the Mass in the Middle Ages , appearing in the lectionary in sources as old as the Murbach lectionary ...
It was originally made for the fourth Sunday in Lent, [1] also known as Laetare Sunday, the Refreshment Sunday of Lent (when the 40-day fast would be relaxed), Mothering Sunday, the Sunday of the Five Loaves, [2] or Simnel Sunday; named after the cake. [3] In the United Kingdom, it is now commonly associated with Mothering Sunday and Easter ...
Here may also be classed the abbreviated forms for the name of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost; also for the names of the Blessed Virgin, the saints, etc.; likewise abbreviations used in the administration of the Sacraments, mortuary epitaphs, etc. (to which class belong the numerous Catacomb inscriptions); finally some miscellaneous ...
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The following inaccurate and scanty information was at Rose Sunday, which now redirects here. There's no information below not in this article. (Wetman 08:51, 26 March 2006 (UTC)): "Rose Sunday is a name for the fourth Sunday of Lent, also known as Mothering Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday, and Laetare Sunday.
Rogation Sunday, a.k.a. Prayer Sunday, is the sixth Sunday of Eastertide, or the fifth Sunday after Easter. It is the last Sunday before Ascension: the three days between Rogate Sunday and Ascension are known as rogation days. Readings James 1:22–27, doers of the word, not only listeners John 16:23–30, Farewell Discourse, prayers will be ...