In the pre-1970 form, this feast is celebrated on 13 January, unless 13 January is a Sunday, in which case the feast of the Holy Family is celebrated instead.

In the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the Time after Epiphany has anywhere from one to six Sundays.

This pre-Lent season is present in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite and in some Protestant calendars.

As in Advent, the deacon and subdeacon of the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite do not wear their habitual dalmatic and tunicle ( signs of joy ) in Masses of the season during Lent ; instead they wear " folded chasubles ", in accordance with the ancient custom.

In the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the two weeks before Easter form the season of Passiontide, a subsection of the Lenten season that begins with Matins of Ash Wednesday and ends immediately before the Mass of the Easter Vigil.

If Easter Sunday or Easter Monday falls on 25 April, the Greater Litanies, which in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite are on that day, are transferred to the following Tuesday.

The Sundays resume their numbering at the point that will make the Sunday before Advent the thirty-fourth, omitting any weeks for which there is no room ( present-day form of the Roman Rite ) or are numbered as " Sundays after Pentecost " ( pre-1970 Roman Rite, Eastern Orthodoxy and some Protestants ) or as " Sundays after Trinity " ( some Protestants ).

For instance, in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Rite, the Gospel of the Last Sunday is and in the later form of that rite all the last three Sundays have similar themes.

In the Roman calendar of saints, Hilary's feast day is on 13 January, 14 January in the pre-1970 form of the calendar.

It also figures in the Introit of the pre-1970 form of Mass in the Roman Rite.

The Roman Catholic Church uses red vestments, symbolic of the blood of Jesus Christ, but in the pre-1970 form of the Roman Missal the priest wears black, changing to violet for the communion part of the service.

The first part of the service is Matins, which in its pre-1970 form is composed of three nocturns, each consisting of three psalms, a short versicle and response, a silent Pater Noster, and three readings, each followed by a responsory.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of the Roman Calendar: in the extraordinary form of the Roman Rite the General Roman Calendar of 1962 is used.

In the Roman Rite ( pre-1970 form ), and in similar Anglican and Lutheran uses, a pre-Lenten season lasts from Septuagesima Sunday until Shrove Tuesday and has thus also been known as Shrovetide.

Both powerplants were coupled to a General Motors-sourced Turbo Hydramatic 400 transmission, except on pre-1970 right-hand-drive models, which used the same 4-speed automatic gearbox as the Silver Cloud ( also sourced from GM ).

In the Traditional ( pre-1970 ) Latin Liturgy ( see Tridentine Mass ), this Mass is said on the Second Sunday after Easter, i. e., the Sunday after the Octave of Easter ( Quasimodo or " Low " Sunday ).

In the pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar the octave of Pentecost is included in Eastertide, which thus ends at None of the following Ember Saturday.

In the pre-1970 Roman Catholic calendar, with its 56-day Eastertide, red is used during the octave of Pentecost.

In the pre-1970 calendar, still used by some, the date was December 22, the day of her birth to heaven, and so the day normally chosen for a saint's feast day.

In 1998, the results of these studies were questioned and the classification reverted to the pre-1970 consensus of a single species containing two subspecies until the taxonomy could be resolved using modern techniques such as molecular sequencing.

Although people born pre-1970 will have been vaccinated for smallpox under the WHO program, the effectiveness of vaccination is limited since the vaccine provides high level of immunity for only 3 to 5 years.

Furthermore Chinese population were largely unable to learn English due to the lack of proper educational facilities in pre-1970 Hong Kong.

For information on the calendars included in pre-1970 editions ( a small part of the full texts ), see General Roman Calendar of 1962, General Roman Calendar of Pope Pius XII, General Roman Calendar as in 1954 and Tridentine Calendar.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of the General Roman Calendar.

Further evidence of pre-1970 recordings surfaced with the release of the song " I Heard You Got Religion ", supposedly recorded in 1969, and released originally as a downloadable track from Ralph America in 1999.

However, this new unit, whether called Vigilanza or Gendarmeria, and though carrying out very similar functions to the pre-1970 Gendermeria, is officially classified as a civilian force ( along with the Vatican Fire Brigade ) rather than as a military force, which is the status on the contrary of the Italian Arma dei Carabinieri that regularly patrols Saint Peter's Square.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of that calendar.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 calendars.

Some continue to use the pre-1970.

However, some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 versions of the General Roman Calendar.

In pre-1970 editions, the Roman Missal envisages this being done ceremonially, to the accompaniment of Psalm 21 / 22, a practice which continues in many Anglican churches.

Some traditionalist Catholics continue to observe pre-1970 calendars.

Traditionalist Catholic organizations such as the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest and the Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney have been permitted to retain the subdiaconate, as well as other pre-1970 forms of the Roman Rite liturgy.

The Anglican Breviary contains Vespers in English according to the pre-1970 Roman Rite.

The rite performed by them is thus seen as having the same by no means negligible value of any other form of prayer offered for the sick or dying.

So, Cranmer composed in English an additional rite of congregational preparation and Communion ( based on the form of the Sarum rite for Communion of the Sick ), to be undertaken immediately following the Communion, in both kinds, of the priest.

For pastoral reasons this manner of receiving communion has been legitimately established as the most common form in the Latin rite.

The Beneventan rite has not survived in its complete form, although most of the principal feasts and several feasts of local significance are extant.

There is an abbreviated form of Holy Unction to be performed for a person in imminent danger of death, which does not replace the full rite in other cases.

Many siddurim containing some form of the Sephardic rite together with the usages of the Ari were published, both by actual Sephardic communities and for the use of Hasidim and other Ashkenazim interested in Kabbalah.

Having grown up in an age in which Latin polyphony was largely confined to liturgical items for the Sarum rite, he assimilated and mastered the Continental motet form of his day, employing a highly personal synthesis of English and continental models.

Of this rite, what is now the " ordinary " or, to use a word employed in the Letter of Pope Benedict XVI accompanying the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, the " normal " form is that which developed from the Second Vatican Council to the present day, while the form in force in 1962 is authorized as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite without restriction in private celebrations and under certain conditions in public celebrations.

As in the current form of the rite, the season mainly concerns Christ's preaching and ministry, with many of his parables read as the Gospel readings.

Red is used for Palm Sunday in this rite ( but only for the blessing of the palms in its 1955-1969 form ).

In the traditional form of the Palm Sunday liturgy, before the reforms of 1955, violet was used in the Roman rite both for the blessing of palms and procession and for the subsequent Mass.

Ascension Thursday, which celebrates the return of Jesus to heaven following his resurrection, is the fortieth day of Easter, but, in places where it is not observed as a Holy Day of Obligation, the post-1969 form of the Roman rite transfers it to the following Sunday.

In the post-1969 form of the Roman rite, Ordinary Time resumes on Pentecost Monday, omitting the Sunday which would have fallen on Pentecost.

The various Eucharistic liturgies used by national churches of the Anglican Communion have continuously evolved from the 1549 and 1552 editions of the Book of Common Prayer which both owed their form and contents chiefly to the work of Thomas Cranmer, who had rejected the medieval theology of the Mass in about 1547 Although the 1549 rite retained the traditional sequence of the mass, its underlying theology was Protestant.

Present form of the Roman rite of the Mass

Tridentine form of the Roman rite of the Mass

These communities, though they identify as Romaniotes, now use the Sephardic rite: the distinctive Romaniote rite does not survive except in the form of certain hymns used by communities such as Corfu.

Sacred prostitution, temple prostitution, or religious prostitution is a sexual ritual consisting of prostitution or other sexual intercourse performed in the context of religious worship, often as a form of fertility rite.