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Shrovetide
 

Shrovetide: Shrove meaning to confess

Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Shrovetide starts on Septuagesima (70 days) Sunday, includes Sexagesima (60 days) Sunday, Quinquagesima (50 days) Sunday, as well as Shrove Monday, and culminates on Shrove Tuesday.

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Passiontide
 

Passiontide: is a name for the last two weeks of Lent, beginning on the Fifth Sunday of Lent, long celebrated as Passion Sunday, and ending on Holy Saturday.

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Christmastide
 

Christmastide: Starting on Christmas day until Candlemas day.

Christmas means Christ's mass

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Advent
 

Advent is the season observed in the church as a time of preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus at Christmas.
Advent begins on The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ
and ends at the Christmas Vigil Mass. Also known as the 40-day Nativity Fast.

The term is a version of the Latin word adventus meaning "coming". 

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Lent
 

Lent: Starts at midnight of Ash Wednesday and officially ends at the start of the mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday.

Lent is a period of preparation for Easter. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, six and a half weeks before Easter, and provides for a 40-day fast (Sundays are excluded), in imitation of Jesus Christ’s fasting in the wilderness before he began his public ministry. 

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Pentecost
 

Pentecost: The Christian feast day of Pentecost is seven weeks after Easter Sunday: that is to say, the fiftieth day after Easter inclusive of Easter Sunday. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.  Pentecost is also known as the birth of the Church.

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Septuagesima
 

Pre-Lenten Season, is the period of preparation before

the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. 

Septuagesima Sunday is 70 days before Easter

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Sexagesima
 

Pre-Lenten Season, is the period of preparation before

the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.

Sexagesima Sunday is 60 days before Easter

 

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Quinquagesima
 

Pre-Lenten Season, is the period of preparation before

the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent.

Quinquagesima Sunday is 50 days before Easter

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Altar of Repose
 

Altar of Repose is the altar in which the holy eucharist is placed in "reserved", until the mass of Presanctified which is on Good Friday.

The holy eucharist tabernacle is open and empty.

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Ashes on the Forehead
 

Ashes on the forehead reminds one of death, 

symbolizing one's mortality.

Remember you are dust and to dust you shall return. 

Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel. 

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Palm Sunday
 

Palm Sunday, of the Passion of the Lord,

is the sixth Sunday of Lent and marks the beginning of Holy Week. This day joins the foretelling of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, as the crowd welcomed Him with pal branches, and the proclamation of His passion in the Gospel of the reading.

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Veiling of the Statues
 

By covering the religious images during the height of Lent, all attention is centered on the Passion and death of Christ.

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