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The last two weeks of Lent, beginning with Passion Sunday and terminating with Easter Saturday, form the season which is known as Passiontide. It is really a continuation and the conclusion of Lent. During this time, and especially throughout Holy Week, the Church is picturing to us the scenes of our Saviour’s Passion and death, and inculcating the lessons which these sorrowful events are intended to teach, while praying that we may have a share in the fruits of the Redemption and the joys of the Resurrection.

NT. It behooves us to glory in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom is our salvation, life, and resurrection, by Whom we are saved and delivered.


 * V. Spare, O Lord, spare Thy people.


 * R. Whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy

Precious Blood.

GOD, Whom to love above all is righteousness, multiply in us the gifts of Thy ineffable grace; and since Thou hast given us, in the death of Thy Son, to hope for those things which we believe, grant us in the Resurrection of the same to attain the end to which we aspire. Who liveth and reigneth forever and ever. Amen.

After the forty days of Lent comes the Paschal season, extending from Easter to Trinity Sunday. It commemorates the Resurrection, or Christ’s victory over death, the forty days after the Resurrection, His entrance into glory, and finally, on the fiftieth day, the coming of the Holy Ghost and the birthday of the Church.