Lent and Easter

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Does anyone remember how Lent was much more strict than now? Besides fasting all night before receiving Communion, I believe that adults had Ember Days to contend with not only during Lent but at various times of the year in which they had to fast.

Also, especially during Lent we had so called mission priests from various orders giving homilies throughout the week on sin, hell, etc. and no one objected. I also believe these same priests heard Confessions on these same days.

Palm Sunday was the fifth Sunday of Lent and Passion Sunday was the last Sunday of Lent. On Passion Sunday the Passion was read in both Latin and English.

I don’t remember much of the Holy Saturday service, but I do remember that Lent ended on noon on Holy Saturday. I don’t know if this was only a local thing or everywhere. However we weren’t allowed to delve into our Easter baskets yet.

Good Friday my parents had us be silent from 12 to 3 and absolutely no TV or Radio either on that day. It was harder for us not to listen to the radio when we were teenagers.

Does anyone remember any other things during Holy Week? Oh yes, I remember too the priests wore Black Vestments that day although there was no Mass.
 
Grandmère declared that decades ago meat was not to be eaten for the entire period of Lent.
Birthdays were not celebrated at all during Lent.

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I remember most of the same things that you do. My parents didn’t make us be quiet, though. I was in parochial grade school back then and we were in church for all the time from noon until 3pm. On Holy Saturday, since the congregation was heavily Polish, the priest blessed the baskets of food which we brought to the church for that purpose.
 
You mixed up the Fifth and Sixth Sundays of Lent - the Fifth Sunday used to be Passion Sunday, and the Sixth Sunday used to be Palm Sunday. This is the way it still is in the Extraordinary Form Mass, unless our priest just celebrated the wrong Mass this past Sunday!!!
 
The Ordinariate still retains the Ember Days throughout the year, but fasting is optional. The fifth Sunday of Lent is still called Passion Sunday too.

I remember in the UK when all shops were closed on Good Friday, sadly that’s not the case anymore. Although in the past few years a Passion play has been broadcast on one of the main TV channels so that has been a step in the right direction.

The parish I attended in my student days (Anglican) would encourage a black fast on Good Friday and there was no incidental music at all during Lent, except for a very muted organ to sustain congregational singing.
 
I remember my grandmother talking about Holy Thursday and how families would travel to a variety of local churches in the evening for Adoration. I’m not even sure if they went to Mass, or just visited the different churches. Does anyone know about this tradition? I’m not sure if it was a local thing or something more common?
 
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I remember my grandmother talking about Holy Thursday and how families would travel to a variety of local churches in the evening for Adoration. I’m not even sure if they went to Mass, or just visited the different churches. Does anyone know about this tradition? I’m not sure if it was a local thing or something more common?
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It was indeed a pious tradition (and I believe it still continues in Rome) to visit three churches in one night to adore the sacrament. I’m not sure of the significance of visiting three churches but there must have been a reason for it.
 
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