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QUADRAGESIMA

Quadragesima: translation

Quadragesima
•Denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ

Catholic Encyclopedia.Kevin Knight.2006.

Quadragesima
Quadragesima
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(Lat., the fortieth).
Quadragesima denotes a season of preparation by fasting and prayer, to imitate the example of Christ (Matt., iv). Several such were observed by the early Christians, viz. before Christmas, Easter, and the feast of St. John the Baptist; the Greeks had four, the Maronites six, and the Armenians eight (Du Cange, "Gloss."). The major, before Easter, is commonly known. It is mentioned in the fifth canon of the Council of Nicæa, in the sixty-ninth of the Apostolic Canons, and in the Pilgrimage of Ætheria (Duchesne, 499).In the Anglo-Saxon Church Mass was said on the weekdays of Quadragesima late in the afternoon and food was taken only near sunset (Rock, IV, 76). According to the Roman Rite, theferiæof this time, beginning with Ash Wednesday, are major (see FERIA). The season has a proper preface. In ferial masses a special oration is added after the ordinary postcommunion, with the invitation: "Humiliate capita vestra Deo". Octaves are forbidden, and if, by special concession, they are allowed they must be interrupted on Sundays. The first Sunday of Lent, known asInvocabitfrom the first word of the Introit, is for the Greeks a commemoration of the veneration of images (19 Feb., 842). For Gaul it was thejour de buresorfête deu brandonsand for GermanyFunkentagorHallfeuer, because on that day the young people ran about the streets with burning torches (Nilles, II, 102). The second Sunday,Reminiscere, was marked by the Greeks asvacat(Nilles, II, 122). The third Sunday,Oculi, was for the GreeksAdoratio Cruciswith a ceremony similar to that of the Latins on Good Friday. For the Bohemians it was theNed. Kychávnáin memory of the sneezing plague at the end of the sixth century and ofLitania septiformisof Gregory the Great. The remaining SundaysLætare, Passion and Palm Sunday (q.v.). (See also LENT; SEPTUAGESIMA.)
ROCK, Church of Our Fathers (London, 1904); DUCHESNE, Christian Worship (London. 1904), KELLNER, Heortologie (Freiburg, 1906, tr. London and St. Louis, 1908); BENGER, Pastoraltheologie, III (Ratisbon, 1863), 201; BINTERIM, Denkwürdigkeiten, V, 1, 169), NILLES, Kalendarium manuale (Innsbruck, 1897).
FRANCIS MERSHMAN
Transcribed by Wm Stuart French, Jr.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company.Nihil Obstat.1910.


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  2. quadragesima—The first Sunday in Lent...Crosswordopener
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  6. quadragesima—n великий пост воскресенье первой недели великого поста торжество православия...Англо-русский словарь Лингвистика-98
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