Never can tell what an Angling might be doing.Sorry for relying on Wikipedia
There probably are Lutherans who follow the Gesimas but I think we fall in line with Concordia/ Augsburg publishing houses post-Vatican II revisions.
This post sums things up nicely.
It can be either.We have always gone to green right after Epiphany. So I think that must be a Lutheran practice at least mostly.
Ya know I always get so tired of the color green. I remember one priest we had who had six sets of green vestments, one made him look like Kermit the frog, But it helped ease the monotony.
I also think blue for Advent is a Lutheran thing as well. All I have seen is purple at that time of year.
Ordinary Time in our calendar is whatever is outside Advent, Christmas, Lent & Easter. It comprises two bits: (i) day after Epiphany until Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, inclusive, (ii) Monday after Pentecost until Saturday before first Sunday of Advent, inclusive. The liturgical colour for Ordinary Time is green. There is a fair bit of complications over which day’s reading to use in the days after Epiphany and which Sundays follow Pentecost.
Isn’t it so much easier to be Latin Rite Catholics - we just obediently follow whatever Rome tells us and so, nobody can mistake what we do
?Orthodox have Ordinary Time? I always thought you follow the same naming as Latins do pre-1970: Sundays after Epiphany/Pentecost.We have always gone to green right after Epiphany. So I think that must be a Lutheran practice at least mostly.
Ya know I always get so tired of the color green. I remember one priest we had who had six sets of green vestments, one made him look like Kermit the frog
I also think blue for Advent is a Lutheran thing as well. All I have seen is purple at that time of year.
I have no doubt some folk might use the term. I’ve never heard it spoken, in an ecclesiastical context.
Thanks for a good comprehensive rundown on Orthodox fasting. Do you still fast two days a week through the year? Western Christians used to do that many many centuries ago. I am hoping to fast two days a week & go vegeterian (no fish) for Mondays & Fridays each week in Lent this year (I only managed to go off meat one day a week in Lent last year). When much younger, I used to do a full fast from Good Friday service until Easter vigil. I agree it feels really good to eat after coming back from midnight mass.
I understand the Blue, but what’s the significance of the other colours: they are quite different from us Westerners. What colour for the other days?
Pancake Day was never an ecclesiastical term, even in decadent Olde England.Appreciate your astute responses!Ordinary Time in our calendar is whatever is outside Advent, Christmas, Lent & Easter. It comprises two bits: (i) day after Epiphany until Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, inclusive, (ii) Monday after Pentecost until Saturday before first Sunday of Advent, inclusive. The liturgical colour for Ordinary Time is green. There is a fair bit of complications over which day’s reading to use in the days after Epiphany and which Sundays follow Pentecost.
Ordinary Time was introduced in the Latin Rite with the 1970 reforms. Previously, the two periods were called Sundays after Epiphany and Sundays after Pentecost. Anglicans generally (this word inserted for GKC’s benefit) still follow the old naming. I am not so sure about Lutherans but I believe with the 1970 Catholic liturgical reforms filtering through to Protestant churches, some Lutheran churches (& Anglo-Catholics, of course) adopted Ordinary Time and the green vestments. Welcome to 20+ weeks of monotony after Pentecost. Of course, we get plenty of feastdays to spice things up.
Isn’t it so much easier to be Latin Rite Catholics - we just obediently follow whatever Rome tells us and so, nobody can mistake what we do
My pancakes were surrounded by the usual fare: two types of sausages & bacon.
I hope your pancake was stuffed full of meat, eggs, etc in full tradition. There is no Pancake Day among Christians in my country, even though we are English speakers. Not even a mention. So, I had my favourite ox tail stew yesterday.
There is a celebration of Transfiguration as part of the pre-Lent tradition and following the 1970 reforms, it is no longer there - gone together with pre-Lent. I am not so sure of its significance in Pre-Lent but I believe the Eastern Christians still celebrate it (in addition to the actual Feast of the Transfiguration on Aug 6). The reading for the Second Sunday of Lent in the Roman Missal is the story of the Transfiguration. References to Transfiguration during the pre-Lent could refer to the reading of Transfiguration. I have been quite mystified by the reference - anyone could throw any light on this?
Anglicans and Lutherans have Ash Wednesday. Pretty sure Methodists as well, but I am not sure.
Most but not all Methodists. Some Reformed as well, but I don’t think many.
So I now gather. Where I grew up, though, Southern Baptist was “high church.”
Wow, this is interesting. Do you have set readings and prayers, etc? Is the communion closer to our Real Presence? You celebrate Ash Wednesday - what about the rest of the liturgical calendar?
