Shrovetide is the last few days before the start of Lent. The name is derived from verb “to shrive” referring to being shriven of your sins at confession. The Catholic Encyclopedia entry quotes the Ecclesiastical Institutes from about 1000 A.D. “In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his [...]
This week is the start of Septuagesima, which marks nine weeks until Easter. This brief season is used to prepare ourselves for Lent. In the past I have used this time to ease into my Lenten penance. But there is more to it than that. In fact that is not even [...]
I was really going to post this on time, but due to illness and other factors it got put on the back burner. I was going to past a quote from the Liturgical Year, but I don’t have it handy so I’ll paraphrase. Abbot Gueranger said that due to general ignorance and lapsed practice amongst [...]
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