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	Laetare Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Laetare Sunday (from the Latin verb laetari, meaning "to be joyful") is a name formerly often used, and less commonly used today, to denote the fourth Sunday of the season of Lent in the Christian liturgical calendar.
		The term "Laetare Sunday" is used predominantly, though not exclusively, by Roman Catholics.
		In the Roman Catholic Church and some High Church Protestant traditions, priests are given the option to wear rose-coloured vestments to Masses held on this day, in place of the purple vestments normally worn during Lent.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Laetare_Sunday (187 words)

	Laetare Sunday
		Strictly speaking, the Thursday before Laetare Sunday is the middle day of Lent, and it was at one time observed as such, but afterwards the special signs of joy permitted on this day, intended to encourage the faithful in their course through the season of penance, were transferred to the Sunday following.
		They consist of (like those of Gaudete Sunday in Advent) in the use of flowers on the altar, and of the organ at Mass and Vespers; rose-coloured vestments also allowed instead of purple, and the deacon and subdeacon wear dalmatics, instead of folded chasubles as on the other Sundays of Lent.
		The contrast between Laetare and the other Sundays is thus emphasized, and is emblematical of the joys of this life, restrained rejoicing mingled with a certain amount of sadness.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/l/laetare_sunday.html (320 words)

	Rose Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rose Sunday is a name for the fourth Sunday of Lent, also known as Mothering Sunday, Mid-Lent Sunday, and Laetare Sunday.
		On this Sunday priests are traditionally allowed to wear rose-coloured vestments instead of the purple ones that are usual during Lent.
		Within Protestantism, the celebration of this day as "Rose Sunday" (rather than "Mothering Sunday") is likely only in the High Church tradition.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rose_Sunday (100 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gaudete Sunday
		On it, as on Laetare Sunday, the organ and flowers, forbidden during the rest of the season, were, permitted to be used; rose-coloured vestments were allowed instead of purple (or fl, as formerly); the decon and subdeacon reassumed the dalmatic and tunicle at the chief Mass, and cardinals wore rose-colour instead of purple.
		Of the "stations" kept in Rome the four Sundays of Advent, that at the Vatican basilica is assigned to Gaudete, as being the most important and imposing of the four.
		Gaudete Sunday is further marked by a new Invitatory, the Church no longer inviting the faithful to adore merely "The Lord who is to come", but calling upon them to worship and hail with joy "The Lord who is now nigh and close at hand".
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06394b.htm (639 words)

	4th Sunday of Lent (Laetare Sunday)
		The fourth Sunday of Lent is rather unique; like the third Sunday of Advent ("Gaudete Sunday"), the fourth Sunday of Lent -- called "Laetare Sunday" (also "Rose Sunday") -- is a break in an otherwise penitential season.
		It takes its name from the opening words of the Mass, the Introit's "Laetare, Jerusalem." The Gospel reading will be John 6:1-15, on the multiplication of the loaves and the fishes -- symbols of the Eucharist to come in 18 days (on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week).
		Laetare Sunday is also known as "Mothering Sunday" because of the Epistle reading that speaks of how not the Jews, but those who come to Christ, regardless of their ancestry, are the inheritors of Abraham's promise --
	www.fisheaters.com /customslent7.html (839 words)

	Father J. Bryan Hehir to receive 2004 Laetare Medal - University of Notre Dame : News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Laetare (pronounced Lay-tah-ray) Medal is so named because its recipient is announced each year in celebration of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent on the Church calendar.
		"Laetare," the Latin word for "rejoice," is the first word in the entrance antiphon of the Mass that Sunday, which ritually anticipates the celebration of Easter.
		Established at Notre Dame in 1883, the Laetare Medal was conceived as an American counterpart of the Golden Rose, a papal honor which antedates the 11th century.
	newsinfo.nd.edu /content.cfm?topicId=4383 (647 words)

	Laetare Sunday
		It is 4 o'clock in the morning on this March Sunday.
		The Laetare is now on its top on this Sunday and soon it is time for the La Louvière inhabitants and their guests to share the meal which has been prepared by the wife, totally in complete support to her husband passion.
		The Laetare is on its top as one can see on this picture taken from the Town hall balcony (Sunday 5 March 1989, photograph Picqueur).
	www.laetare.be /uk/Dimanche_uk.php (818 words)

	Laetare Lesson, by Gerald O'Reilly, Notre Dame Magazine Online - University of Notre Dame
		The Laetare medal is awarded annually by Notre Dame to an outstanding Catholic.
		The selection is announced on Laetare Sunday, the first Sunday in May. Recipients have ranged from Clare Booth Luce to John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Irene Dunne and Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
		The bag has three sections, and the Laetare Medal is traditionally stored in the middle one, usually encased in a a dirty shirt.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/reflect/oreilly.html (1267 words)

	Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : Easy Simnel Cake (Recipe)
		Once this day was called Refreshment Sunday, or Sunday of the Golden Rose, because on this day the Holy Father blesses the Golden Rose, a beautiful ornament of gold and jewels containing a receptacle holding balsam and powdered musk.
		Laetare means "rejoice," and we may well rejoice in this break that comes during the long, bleak weeks when altars have been bare of flowers and vestments dark.
		On this Sunday rose vestments are worn, and flowers adorn the altar.
	www.catholicculture.org /lit/recipes/view.cfm?id=441 (398 words)

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		LAETARE SUNDAY The Fourth Sunday of Lent is called Laetare (Rejoice) Sunday, from the first words of the liturgy [Introit] above.
		This is why the Sundays during Lent are excluded from the forty days of penance; why no saints' feast days on the Church's calendar are celebrated on Sunday; and, likewise, why no funeral Masses may be conducted on the Lord's Day.
		This Sunday is also known as "Dominica in albis depositis," in reference to the fact that those who had been baptized on Easter Eve laid aside their white baptismal robes for the fiirst time on this day.
	www.ewtn.com /library/FAMILY/LENT.TXT (6011 words)

	CALCULATING EASTER
		If the year begins on a Sunday, then the dominical letter is A. If the year begins on a Saturday, then the dominical letter is B, and so on.
		Therefore, for purposes of calculating Easter, the spring equinox is always considered to be on March 21, and the epact is used for determining the moon phases.
		Because Easter is always on a Sunday, the dominical letter is also part of the equation.
	www.carnaval.com /easter/calculating_easter.htm (1047 words)

	Laetare Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is a sentence or two most often from the scriptures that were sung at the beginning of Mass.
		The antiphon for the Fourth Sunday of Lent is from the 66th chapter of the Book of Isaiah.
		Come together, you who love her" In Latin, one of the words used for "rejoice" is laetare.
	www2.arkansas.net /~stmary/Laetare_Sunday.html (166 words)

	The Boston College Chronicle
		Laetare Sunday, the mid-Lenten celebration that has been a hallmark of alumni spiritual activities at Boston College for the past 53 years, will have a new format this year.
		Established in 1951, Boston College's Laetare Sunday event is the longest-running religious observance at any Catholic college in the nation.
		Leahy, the Laetare Sunday Mass will be concelebrated by members of the University's Jesuit community and alumni priests from the anniversary classes.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v12/mr4/laetare.html (457 words)

	Gaudete Sunday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gaudete Sunday is the third Sunday of Advent in the Christian calendar.
		On Gaudete Sunday the rose coloured Advent candle is lit at Mass, and the priest might wear rose coloured vestments.
		During the otherwise penitential season of Advent the readings on the third Sunday emphasise the joyous anticipation of the Lord's coming.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gaudete_Sunday (135 words)

	Cusick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Laetare Jerusalem: et conventum facite, omnes qui diligitis eam: gaudete cum laetitia, qui in tristitia fuistis: ut exsultetis, et satiemini ab uberibus consolationis vestrae.
		This Fourth Sunday of Lent, in particular, is named for this joy as "Laetare Sunday." The priest and deacons wear rose vestments, flowers may be used to decorate the altar and organ accompanies the hymns of the liturgy.
		Today is Laetare Sunday: the joy at one stage of our Lenten journey accomplished and a foretaste of the joy of Easter, which springs from the Cross of Christ.
	www.parishalive.ca /lent4/cusick.html (405 words)

	Laetare : Delight Yourself (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the religious liturgy, the Laetare is the name given to the fourth Lent Sunday.
		This particular celebration starts by the exhortation "Laetare Jerusalem" and constitutes, in faithful people's eyes, the half way of a penitence time which was in bygone days very rigorous and carried out to the letter.
		The Laetare seemed to the La Louvière inhabitants an opportune occasion for a feast which was going beyond the religious boundaries.
	www.laetare.be /uk/Laetare_uk.php (546 words)

	Because the present always looks so terrible, the first part of Advent gazes into the future with its promise that ...
		On the first Sunday of Advent he promised that, ”The nations shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks” (Is 2: 1-5).
		On the second Sunday he promised that that, “The wolf will be a guest of the lamb, and the calf and young lion will browse with each other” (Is 11:1-10).
		Hasten the day of his coming.” Last Sunday he is declaring unhesitatingly that there’s one coming after him who baptizes not with water but with the Holy spirit, and who is so great that he’s not worthy to carry his sandals”(Mt 3: 3, 11).
	my.execpc.com /05/9B/alexis/3Advent2004.htm (2154 words)

	The Fourth Sunday of Lent
		A meditation on Lent from The Liturgical Year by Abbot Dom Guéranger, O.S.B. This Sunday, called, from the first word of the Introit, Lætare Sunday, is one of the most solemn of the year.
		The blessing of the golden rose is one of the ceremonies peculiar to the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is called on this account Rose Sunday.
		Breaking through her rule of never admitting a saint's feast during Lent, she keeps this mid-Lent Sunday in honour of the celebrated abbot of the monastery of Mount Sinai, St. John Climacus, who lived in the sixth century.
	www.tldm.org /Lent/Lent4.htm (3242 words)

	Proper of the Season (laetare.htm)
		n this Sunday's liturgy rejoicing is the theme as we reach the midway point of Lent.
		Laetare Sunday offers us a rest in the midst of the Lenten observance.
		When the people, therefore, had seen the sign that Jesus worked, they said, "This is, indeed, the Prophet, who is to come into the world." So when Jesus perceived that they would come to take Him by force and make Him king, He fled to the mountain, Himself alone.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2003Apr/laetare.htm (1060 words)

	Gaudete Sunday - All Saints Catholic Newman Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The third Sunday in Advent was nicknamed "Gaudete Sunday" long ago.
		Yes, there is. Halfway through Lent we celebrate what is traditionally called "Laetare Sunday." As in Advent, we take a mid-term break from the somberness of the season for joyous anticipation.
		Laetare Sunday also takes its name from the entrance antiphon of the day, whose first word is a Latin synonym also meaning "rejoice" or "be joyful." This is the other time you may see liturgical use of the color rose.
	www.newman-asu.org /ministries/lit_corner/lit_gaudetesunday.htm (261 words)

	Liturgy: Rose-Colored Vestments on Gaudete Sunday - Catholic Online
		Red is used on Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion and on Good Friday, on Pentecost Sunday, on celebrations of the Lord's Passion, on the feasts of the Apostles and Evangelists, and on celebrations of Martyr Saints.
		Rose may be used, where it is the practice, on Gaudete Sunday (Third Sunday of Advent) and on Laetare Sunday (Fourth Sunday of Lent).
		Both terms may be broadly translated as "rejoice" or "delight" and refer to the importance of the theme of Christian joy, even in the midst of a penitential season, which is reflected in the formulas and readings of both these Masses.
	www.catholic.org /featured/headline.php?ID=1586 (1399 words)

	Catholic Online Forum Discussion Area: 4th Sunday of Lent
		The station Mass for Laetare Sunday is the Basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome, where the relics of Cross and Passion are kept.
		It was the custom on Laetare for the Pope to bless roses made of gold that were then sent to Catholic kings and queens.
		So, rose came to be used on Laetare Sunday in the Basilica of the Holy Cross when the Pope came for the station Mass.
	oldforum.catholic.org /discussion/messages/28/15263.html?994890829 (1393 words)

	O'Connor To Speak On Laetare Sunday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Emeritus Thomas O'Connor (History), the premier historian of Boston and its Irish population, will be the featured speaker at the Alumni Association's annual Laetare Sunday Communion Breakfast, which this year falls on St. Patrick's Day, March 17.
		Laetare Sunday marks the mid-point of Lent and this 46th annual communion breakfast is the Alumni Association's oldest tradition.
		Tickets for the Laetare Sunday event are $17.50; $12 for children and alumni from the classes of 1986 through 1995.
	www.bc.edu /bc_org/rvp/pubaf/chronicle/v4/F15/LAETARE/LAETARE.html (312 words)

	St. Valentine: February 14
		It cam on the Fourth Sunday of Lent, on Laetare (“rejoice”) Sunday.
		Laetare Sunday came to be called Mothering Sunday.
		People were so taken with the observance of such a day that in 1914 Congress proclaimed the second Sunday in May as Mother’s Day.
	www.emmitsburg.net /sasolmc/did_you_know/2004/mothers_day.htm (227 words)

	LM
		The fourth Sunday of Lent in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.
		The term is derived from the opening words of the Latin Mass, "Rejoice (Laetare) Jerusalem" (Is 66:10).
		Laetare Sunday therefore may be called "Rose Sunday." This custom is not required in the Episcopal Church, but it is observed by some parishes with a traditional Anglo-catholic piety.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /19625_14635_ENG_HTM.htm (149 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Laetare Sunday -- Mar. 15, 1937 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Three Sundays before it begins, all churches are draped with mourning purple in memory of Christ's Passion.
		A change occurs on Laetare ("Rejoice") or Rose Sunday, when the Church bids her faithful for a day to look beyond the sorrows of Lent to the rejoicings of the coming Easter and when rose vestments and draperies are substituted for purple.
		To Pope Pius XI in Vatican City, Laetare Sunday last week was especially a day for rejoicing.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,757379,00.html (143 words)

	Laetare Medal to Monsignor George Higgins
		Ordained a priest of the Chicago archdiocese in 1940, he was appointed to the staff of the social action department of the organization that would become the United States Catholic Conference.
		The Laetare Medal, established in 1883, is the oldest and most prestigious honor given to American Catholics.
		It is so named because its recipient is announced each year in celebration of Laetare Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent.
	www.nd.edu /~ndmag/sm2001/laetare.html (247 words)

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		Editor's Note: In Father Louis Campbell's sermon for Laetare Sunday, he equates the beauty of the rose as the symbol of grace so magnified in the ethereal beauty of the Blessed Virgin Mary - the Mystical Rose who is the antithesis of all that is ugly: sin.
		Today is Laetare Sunday, the Sunday just after the mid-point of Lent, when Holy Church would have us take a break from our penances and be encouraged by the fact that Easter is approaching, that most wonderful of all days, when we celebrate the Lord's Resurrection from the tomb.
		Traditionally on Laetare Sunday the Pope blessed a Golden Rose at the basilica of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem in Rome.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/04Mar/40321qui.htm (1054 words)

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