Talk:Quinquagesima

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It is inaccurate to suggest that "the Anglican churches" dropped this terminology "six years later". Individual provinces within the Anglican Communion have revised their calendars on various timescales, but in any case The Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England has not had its calendar revised and the three Sundays before Lent retain their old names there. An alternative calendar is available and widely used in the Church of England, as part of Common Worship. This does drop the traditional names. But neither does it adopt the usage of numbering all of them as Nth after Epiphany. The CW calendar usage can be found at http://cofe.anglican.org/worship/liturgy/commonworship/texts/calendar/seasons.html.

[edit] Correction -Mar-2006

The text said that Quinq. was 50 days before Good Friday - this is just plain wrong there are 47. Saltmarsh 14:11, 4 March 2006 (UTC)