No longer officially marked by the Catholic
Church, Quinquagesima Sunday is the final Sunday before the start of Lent (the Sunday before Ash Wednesday), which makes it the seventh
Sunday before Easter. Traditionally, it was the third of
three Sundays (following Septuagesima and Sexagesima) of preparation for Lent.
Quinquagesima literally means "fiftieth." It
is 49 days before Easter, or 50 if you count Easter itself. (Similarly, Pentecost Sunday is said to be 50 days
after Easter, but the number is calculated by including Easter in the count.)
When the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar
was revised in 1969, the three pre-Lenten Sundays were removed; they are now
denominated simply as Sundays in Ordinary Time. Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and
Quinquagesima are all still observed in the celebration of the traditional Latin Mass.
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