* Quinquagesima Sunday – 49 days ( seventh Sunday ) before Easter ( Pre – Vatican II Calendar )

Quinquagesima is the name used in the Western Church for the Sunday before Ash Wednesday.

It was also called Quinquagesima Sunday, Quinquagesimae, Estomihi, or Shrove Sunday.

Since the forty days of the Lenten fast does not include Sundays, the first day of Lent, Ash Wednesday, succeeds Quinquagesima Sunday by only three days.

The earliest Quinquagesima Sunday can occur is February 1 and the latest is March 7.

The earlier form of the Roman Rite, with its references to Quinquagesima Sunday, and to the Sexagesima and Septuagesima Sundays, continues to be observed in some communities.

* Lections and resources for Quinquagesima Sunday

* Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sunday are the last three Sundays before Lent.

21: Cambridge / Walpole St Peter / For Quinquagesima Sunday ( Estomihi ) / For Annunciation / Palm Sunday / Oculi, John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Nathalie Stutzmann, Soli Deo Gloria 2000

The other two Sundays in this period of the liturgical year are called Sexagesima and Quinquagesima, the latter sometimes also called Shrove Sunday.

The name " Sexagesima " is derived from the Latin sexagesimus, meaning " sixtieth ," and appears to be a back-formation of Quinquagesima, the term formerly used to denote the last Sunday before Lent ( the latter name alluding to the fact that there are fifty days between that Sunday and Easter, if one counts both days themselves in the total ).

However, like Quinquagesima, Sexagesima and Septuagesima, the numeral is more likely an approximation of how many days there are until Easter Sunday, in this case 42.

* In the Tridentine Roman Breviary the readings from the Genesis, that contain the formal narrative of Abraham begin on Quinquagesima Sunday with the call of Abraham, continue next day with the account of the separation of Abraham from his nephew Lot, and end with the sacrifice of Melchisedech on Shrove Tuesday, a total of three days.

Quinquagesima (" fiftieth "), is the fiftieth day before Easter, reckoning inclusively ; but Sexagesima is not the sixtieth day and Septuagesima is not the seventieth but is the sixty-fourth day prior.

While Quinquagesima ( 50th day ) is mathematically correct ( allowing for the inclusive counting ), Sexagesima and Septuagesima are only approximations ( the exact number of days is 57 and 64 respectively ).

The name Quinquagesima originates from Latin quinquagesimus ( fiftieth ), referring to the fifty days before Easter Day using inclusive counting which counts both Sundays ( normal counting would count only one of these ).

Septuagesima comes from the Latin word for " seventieth " with Sexagesima and Quinquagesima equalling " sixtieth " and " fiftieth " respectively.

For each year of this period, it lists the number of weeks between Christmas day and Quinquagesima.

Elgar was a practising Roman Catholic and on 12 February 1899, eight days before the completion of the Variations, he attended Quinquagesima Mass at St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church in Malvern.

The new liturgical books created after the Second Vatican Council omit Septuagesima, Sexagesima and Quinquagesima Sundays.

The earlier form of the Roman Rite, with its references to Quinquagesima, Sexagesima and Septuagesima, continues to be observed in some communities.

Yet every Sunday we sinners go to that emergency room to receive first aid, and we leave unmindful that the man who ministered to us is a human being who suffers, too.

The Providence Sunday Journal article ( Jan. 29 ) asking whether American taxpayers are being victimized by a gigantic giveaway to pay for the care of war veterans who have non-service-connected disabilities sounds as though The Providence Journal is desperate for news.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

Since April 15, 1962, is on Sunday your return for the calendar year 1961 will be timely filed if it is filed on or before Monday, April 16, 1962.

A college service of worship is held each Sunday morning at eleven o'clock in the Chapel.

Attendance is required at the College Service of Worship or at the Sunday Evening Program or at any regularly organized service of public worship.

( This is shown in the afternoon and on Sunday morning.

She's the one who decides which wedding is to get the lead space in the Sunday paper and all that ''.

) Well, anyhow, Dogtown Common is so much off the beaten track nowadays that only Sunday picnickers still stray up there, from time to time.

Rhode Island is going to examine its Sunday sales law with possible revisions in mind.

The only day they `` have a chance to compete with large supermarkets is on Sunday '', the council's resolution said.

Sunday he had added, `` We can love Eisenhower the man, even if we considered him a mediocre president but there is nothing left of the Republican Party without his leadership ''.

Willie's wonderful walloping Sunday -- four home runs -- served merely to emphasize how happy he is to be playing for Alvin Dark.

A farewell supper Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Sethness Jr. planned Sunday for Italian Consul General and Mrs. Giacomo Profili has been canceled because Mr. Sethness is in Illinois Masonic hospital for surgery.

The Councilman, who is the Administration floor leader, also criticized Bernard L. Werner, public works director, for `` halting snow operations '' on Tuesday night after the Sunday storm.

More than 300 teenagers last Sunday proved there is and as many more are expected to prove it again for Jim Kern and his wife Lynn from 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday at First Presbyterian Church.

The general tone of articles appearing in such important newspapers as the Manchester Guardian and the Sunday Observer implies a kindly recognition that the Catholic Church is now at least of equal stature in England with the Protestant churches.

Also on the bill at the Fifty-fifth Street is a nice ten-minute color film called `` Sunday In Greenwich Village '', a tour of the haunts and joints.

In the ordinary form of the Roman Rite, if 2 November falls on a Sunday, the Mass is of All Souls, but the Liturgy of the Hours is that of the Sunday.

In an effort to thwart informers and, indeed, the Volunteers ' own leadership, Pearse issued orders in early April for three days of " parades and manoeuvres " by the Volunteers for Easter Sunday ( which he had the authority to do, as Director of Organization ).

In 2004, long after the Times Herald had ceased printing, The Dallas Morning News admitted it had indeed underreported circulation decreases, and had overstated Sunday circulation by 11. 9 % and daily circulation by 5. 1 %.

On his way to the track in nearly perfect weather on Sunday morning, race promoter Ulmann realized that, indeed, he had bitten the hand that might have fed him.

Following Dorries ' claim, in a Mail on Sunday article, that Cameron could be replaced within a year, George Osborne said on The Andrew Marr Show on 6 May: " Nadine Dorries, for the last seven years, I don't think has agreed with anything either myself, David Cameron, or indeed most Conservatives in the leadership of the party have done ".