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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Quinquagesima (306 words) |
 | Quinquagesima or Esto Mihi from the beginning of the Introit of the Mass; it is a Sunday of the second class, and the colour the Mass and Office is violet. |
| In many places this Sunday after and the next two days were used to prepare for Lent by a good confession; hence in England we find the names Shrove Sunday and Shrovetide. |
| Quinquagesima also means the time between Easter and Pentecost, or from the Saturday after Easter to the Sunday after Pentecost; it is then called |
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| Advent Sunday, is the nearest Sunday to the feast of St. Andrew, November 30th, whether before or after. |
| Quinquagesima Sunday, is so named from its being about the fiftieth day before Easter. |
| When the three weeks before Quadragesima ceased to be considered as weeks after the Epiphany, and were appointed to be observed as a time of preparation for Lent, it was perfectly conformable to the ordinary mode of computation to reckon backwards, and for the sake of even and round numbers to count by decades. |
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