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| Pre-Lent | |
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.jpg) The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard: print for Septuagesima | |
| Celebrations | |
| Observances | Catechesis |
| Begins | on Septuagesima |
| Ends | on Shrove Tuesday |
| Date | Variable (follows the paschal computus) |
| 2023 date | 5 February–21 February |
| 2024 date | 28 January–13 February |
| 2025 date | 16 February–4 March |
| Frequency | Annual (lunar calendar) |
| Related to | Lent, Easter |
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Pre-Lent begins the Christian time of preparation for Easter, in the three weeks before Lent.[1] This period launches a campaign of catechesis, reflected in the liturgical readings.[2] Its best-known feature is its concluding three-day festival, Carnival or Shrovetide.[3]
- ^ Taft, Robert F. (1991). "Year, Liturgical". In Každan, Aleksandr Petrovič (ed.). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York: Oxford university press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
- ^ Chavesse, Antoine (1950). "Temps de préparation à la Pâque d'après quelques livres liturgiques romains". Recherches de Science Religieuse (in French). 37 (1): 125–145. ISSN 0034-1258.
- ^ Cartlidge, Neil (2004). "The battle of Shrovetide: Carnival against Lent as a leitmotif in late medieval culture". Viator. 35: 517–542. doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.300208. ISSN 0083-5897.