The Season of Septuagesima Is Upon Us Once Again
Dr. Thomas A. D
Today
is Septuagesima Sunday and the Commemoration of Saint Peter Nolasco and
the commemoration of the second feast of Saint Agnes, who appeared to
her parents on this date one week after her martydom.
Septuagesima
Sunday is ushered in as priests wearing purple vestments, thus
signifying the beginning of the seventeen day period to help us to
prepare for our annual Lenten journey of prayer, fasting, penance,
sacrifice, mortification, and almsgiving. Easter is the preeminent
feast, and the period that begins today is meant to focus our attention
on what Our Blessed Lord and Saviour suffered to redeem us by the
shedding of every single drop of His Most Precious Blood on the wood of
the Holy Cross on Good Friday.
