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In the liturgy of the Catholic Church, a feria is a day of the week other than Sunday. [1] In more recent official liturgical texts in English, the term weekday is used instead of feria. [2] If the feast day of a saint falls on such a day, the liturgy celebrated may be that of the saint, not that of the feria (the weekday liturgy). Accordingly ...
What the original meaning of the term "double" may have been is not entirely certain. Some think that the greater festivals were thus styled because the antiphons were "doubled" at the major hours, i.e. they were repeated twice. Others, with more probability, point to the fact that before the ninth century in certain places, for example at Rome ...
Good Friday, Feria VI/Sexta in Parasceve, meaning Friday (sixth day of the week) of the Day of Preparation (from Greek Παρασκευή). Thus this second set of nine responsories can appear under such titles as Feria VI – In Parasceve.
Feria is Latin for "holiday". Feria may refer to: Feria, in Roman Rite liturgy, a day of the week, other than Sunday, on which no feast is celebrated; Feria (festival) festival in Spain and southern France, characterized by bullfights, bull running in the streets, bodegas; Feria, San Felipe, Zambales barangay in the Philippines; Typhoon Feria
The Catholic Church regards Good Friday and Holy Saturday as the Paschal fast, in accordance with Article 110 of Sacrosanctum Concilium. [58] In the Latin Church , a fast day is understood as having only one full meal and two collations (a smaller repast, the two of which together do not equal the one full meal) [ 59 ] [ 60 ] – although this ...
I grew up Catholic, and my wife was raised Jewish. As adults, we have both chosen a life free of organized religion . We are raising our children agnostic , with the option to choose a spiritual ...
Pope Francis left the Vatican on Wednesday afternoon for a short trip to the Roman seaside neighborhood of Ostia, where he met a French Catholic nun known for decades of work with the LGBTQ community.
Medieval manuscripts abound in abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand.The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in order to save time and parchment.