Sexagesima
SEXAGESIMA
The second Sunday before Lent; so called because about the 60th day before Easter.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
Sexagesima
(Lat. sexagesima, sixtieth) is the eighth Sunday before Easter and the second before Lent. The Ordo Romanus, Alcuin, and others count the Sexagesima from this day to Wednesday after Easter. The name was already known to the Fourth Council of Orleans in 541. For the Greeks and Slavs it is Dominica Carnisprivii, because on it they began, at least to some extent, to abstain from meat. The Synaxarium calls it Dominica secundi et muneribus non corrupti adventus Domini. To the Latins it is also known as “Exsurge” from the beginning of the Introit. The statio was at Saint Paul’s outside the walls of Rome, and hence the oratio calls upon the doctor of the Gentiles. The Epistle is from Paul, II Cor., xi and xii describing his suffering and labours for the Church. The Gospel (Luke 8) relates the falling of the seed on nood and on bad ground, while the Lessons of the first Nocturn continue the history of man’s iniquity, and speak of Noah and of the Deluge. (See SEPTUAGESIMA.)
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BUTLER. The Movable Feasts of the Catholic Chureh (New York, s. d.), tr. IV, ii.
FRANCIS MERSHMAN Transcribed by Wm Stuart French, Jr. Dedicated to Rev. Kenneth Geyer, O.S.B.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume XIIICopyright © 1912 by Robert Appleton CompanyOnline Edition Copyright © 2003 by K. KnightNihil Obstat, February 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, D.D., CensorImprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York
Fuente: Catholic Encyclopedia
Sexagesima
the Sunday which, in round numbers, is sixty days before Easter.