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PASSIONTIDE

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The two weeks between Passion Sunday and Easter. The last week is Holy Week,
while the first is called by the Latins "Hebdomas Passionis", by the Greeks
"Week of the palms" (from the Sunday following). During this time the monks of
the East, who had chosen the desert for a severer mode of life, returned to
their monasteries (Cyril of Scythopolis in "Life of St. Euthymius", n. 11). The
rubrical prescriptions of the Roman Missal, Breviary, and "Caeremoniale
Episcoporum" for this time are: before Vespers of Saturday preceding Passion
Sunday the crosses, statues, and pictures of Our Lord and of the saints on the
altar and throughout the church, with the sole exception of the crosses and
pictures of the Way of the Cross, are to be covered with a violet veil, not
translucent, nor in any way ornamented. The crosses remain covered until after
the solemn denudation of the principal crucifix on Good Friday. The statues and
pictures retain their covering, no matter what feast may occur, until the Gloria
in Excelsis of Holy Saturday. According to an answer of the S. R. C. of 14 May,
1878, the practice may be tolerated of keeping the statue of St. Joseph, if
outside the sanctuary, uncovered during the month of March, which is dedicated
to his honour, even during Passiontide. In the Masses de tempore the Psalm
Judica is not said; the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Asperges, the Introit,
and the Lavabo; only two orations are recited and the Preface is of the Holy
Cross. In the Dominical and ferial offices of the Breviary the doxology is
omitted in the Invitatorium and in the responses, whether long or short. The
crosses are veiled because Christ during this time no longer walked openly among
the people, but hid himself. Hence in the papal chapel the veiling formerly took
place at the words of the Gospel: "Jesus autem abscondebat se." Another reason
is added by Durandus, namely that Christ's divinity was hidden when he arrived
at the time of His suffering and death. The images of the saints also are
covered because it would seem improper for the servants to appear when the
Master himself is hidden (Nilles, "Kal.", II, 188).

In some places the crosses were covered on Ash Wednesday; in others on the first
Sunday of Lent. In England it was customary on the first Monday of Lent to cover
up all the crucifixes, images of every kind, the reliquaries, and even the cup
with the Blessed Sacrament. The cloths used were of white linen or silk and
marked with a red cross (Rock, infra, IV, 258). The two beautiful hymns of the
season, "Vexilla Regis" and "Pange lingua gloriosi", are the work of Venantius
Fortunatus, Bishop of Poitiers. On the Friday of Passion Week the Church very
appropriately honours the Seven Dolours of Our Lady. On Saturday the Greeks
commemorate the resuscitation of Lazarus.

SOURCES

ROCK, The Church of Our Fathers (London, 1904); NILLES, Kal. man. (Innsbruck,
1897).

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APA citation. Mershman, F. (1911). Passiontide. In The Catholic Encyclopedia.
New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11535b.htm

MLA citation. Mershman, Francis. "Passiontide." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol.
11. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911.
<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11535b.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Herman F.
Holbrook. Per crucem et passionem tuam, libera nos, Domine.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. February 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D.,
Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

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