Volume 1

A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood.

Date:: [between 1890 and 1899?]

Credit: A dictionary of Christian antiquities : being a continuation of the 'Dictionary of the Bible' / edited by William Smith and Samuel Cheetham ; illustrated by engravings on wood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

1075/1096 (page 1055)

$The Dominical calendars throughout the year j varied in diilerent churches, and deserve a few j words. The Roman Calendar, as in use to the-present time, is substantially the same as the early Eng- lish (and as that now used among ourselves). The chief difference is that in it the Sundays throughout the summer are reckoned '•‘■post Pentecostcn''’ instead of post Trinitatem as in the Sarum (and modern English) use; and that there are fewer of them. Thus in the Roman missal there are twenty-four Sundays post Pente- costen, in the English twenty-five post Trini- tatem. In the York missal the Sundays were reckoned post octavas Pentecostes. Allatius (de Domini is et hehdomadihus Grae- ■ corum dissei'tatid) gives a Calendar “ ad usum Breviarii Romani e bibliothecae Vaticanae Codice antiquissimo which (omitting all that does not relate to Sundays) runs thus :— Dominica prima de Adventu Domini. Dominica secunda ante Nutale Domini. Dominica tertia ante Natale Domini. Dominica prima post Natale Domini. Dominica prima, etc. post Epiphaniam. (The Sundays after the Epiphany are reckoned up to Lent, but the names for the last three, Septuagesima, etc. are recognised.) Dominica in Quadragesima. Dominica prima mensis primi. Dominica iii®, iv*, v“, vi» in Quadragesima. Dominica Sancta in Pascha. Dominica Octava Paschae. Dominica i^, ii“, iii* post Octavam Paschae. Dominica post Ascensa Domini. Dominica Pentecosten. Dominica Octava Pentecosten. Dominica ii% etc. Pentecosten. Dominica post Natale Apostolorum [i. e. SS. Pet. et Pauli. Jun. 29]. Dominica i», ii®, etc. post Octavam Apostolorum. Dominica i®, ii®, etc. post S. Laurentii [Aug. 10]. Dominica i®, ii®, etc. post S. Cypriani [Sept. 26]. The last of these Sundays ’ ’hat next after the festival of St. Andrew, anu .hen follow the three Sundays of Advent. The Mozarabic Calendar contains six Sundays in Advent. The Sundays after the Epiphany are numbered continuously till the beginning of Lent, omitting the names Septingesima, etc., the Sunday corresponding to Quinquagesima being known as Dominica ante diem Cinerum v. antecarnes toUendas, after Pentecost are reckoned as the first, second, etc., seventh Sunday after Pentecost. After the seventh no Sunday mass and therefore no Sunday name is given till Advent, except one for “ In Dominica ante jeju- ni um Calendarum Novembrium.” The Ambrosian Dominical Calendar, which in its main features is of high antiquity, is as follows:— Dominica i®, ii®, iii®, iv®, v®, vi® in Adventu. (These six Sundays are exclusive of and in addition to the Vigil of .'le Nativity, when it falls on a Sunday.) Dominica post Nativitatem Domini Dominica i®, ii®, etc. post Epiphaniam. Dominica in Septuagesima, in Sexagesima, in Quin- quagesima. Dominica i® in Quadragesima (the beginning of Ijcnt). Dominica ii® in Quadragesima (sometimes called the Smiday of the .Samaritan Woman). Dominica iii® in Quadragesima (or the Sunday of Abraham). Dominica iv® in Quadragesima (or the Sunday of the Blind Man). Dominica v® in Quadragesima (or the Sunday of Lazarus). Dominica Olivarum. Dominica Resurrectionis, v. Dies Sanctus Paschae. Dominica in Albis depositis. Dominica ii®, iii®, iv®, v» post Pascha. Dominica post Ascensionem. Dominica Pentecostes. Dominica i® post Pentecosten. Dominica in qua celebratur Festum Sanctissimae Trinitatis. Dominica ii® post Pentecosten, v. Dom. infra Octa- vam Corporis Christi. Dominica iii®, etc. post Pentecosten. Up to the Decollation of St. Joh. Bapt. [Aug. 29]. Dominica i®, ii®, iii®, iv®, v® post Decollationem. Dominica i®, ii® Octobris. Dominica iii®. In Dcdicatione Ecclesiae majoris. Dominica i®, ii®, iii® post Dedicationem. The Greek Dominical Calendar differs in many respects. In all Western calendars the ecclesias- tical year begins with Advent. The Greek Church has no such season,*^ and the year begins with the Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publi- can} which corresponds to the Sunday next before Septuagesima. The order of the Sundays is as follows :— Sunday of the Pharisee and the Publican [also called 7rpoa-<f)we^crt/iOs].“* Sunday of the Prodigal Son, answering to Septua- gesima Sunday. Sunday oi Apnereos [so called because it is the last day on which meat is eaten]. Sunday of Tyrophagus [the last day on which cheese is eaten]. First Sunday of the Fast, or Orthodoxy Sunday, Sidra^is TrpwTTjs KupiaKrjg T(1>p dyiwv vTjaretwv, 7]T0i Trj^ bp6o8o^ia<; (Typ. Sdbae, cap. xvii.). The celebration under this name is in commemoration of the overthrow of the Iconoclasts.® Second. Third, Fourth, Fifth Sundays of the Fast. Palm Sunday (xupia/clj tCov jSatoji/). Pascha (or Bright Sunday, \ap.npd KvpLaKy). Antipascha (or the Sunday of St. Thomas), some- times New Sunday, Kaivr) rj vea Kvpi/tKri (Theod, Balsamon in Expos, de S. Bas. etc. ad Aniphil. de Spir. Sanct.). Sunday of the Ointment Bearers (jSiv p.vpo<pdpoiv'). Sunday of the Paralytic. Sunday of the Samaritan Woman, or Mid Pentecost [peo-OTrei'Te/coo-TTj]. Sunday of the Blind Man.° Sunday of fde Three hundred and eighteen [i. e. the Fathers of Nicaeaj. Sunday in the Octave of the Ascension. Pentecost. All Saints Sunday (Trinity Sunday or First Sunday of Matthew). k There is a fast preparatory to the Nativity, called the Fast of the Nativity, which lasts for the forty days before Christmas. 1 This and similar names of Sund^iys are derived from the subjects of the Gospels for the day. m For the reasons given for this name, see Allatius de Dominicis et Hehdomadihus Graecorum, s. viii. n There is a long and peculiar office for the day in the Triodium, but it is without our limits of time. o The Sundays after Antipascha are variously reckoned as the 2nd, 3rd, etc., or as the 3rd, 4th, etc. Sunday after Pascha.$