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Septuagesima Sunday

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Noun1.Septuagesima Sunday - the 3rd Sunday before Lent (or the 9th before Easter)
Christian holy day - a religious holiday for Christians


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On Septuagesima Sunday 1965, almost every altar in a Catholic church in the United States was turned around.
8 would have been the liturgically appropriate service-book for the period from Septuagesima Sunday to the Saturday before the first Sunday of Lent.
According to Lewine, this sequence reflects a thematic unfolding of the Lenten liturgy from Septuagesima Sunday (the seventh Sunday after Epiphany) through Holy Saturday.
 
 
 
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