Pre-Lent

Pre-Lent
Celebrations
ObservancesCatechesis
Beginson Septuagesima
Endson Shrove Tuesday
DateVariable (follows the paschal computus)
2023 date5 February–21 February
2024 date28 January–13 February
2025 date16 February–4 March
FrequencyAnnual (lunar calendar)
Related toLent, Easter

Pre-Lent begins the Christian time of preparation for Easter, in the three weeks before Lent.[1] This period launches a campaign of catechesis, reflected in the liturgical readings.[2] Its best-known feature is its concluding three-day festival, Carnival or Shrovetide.[3]

  1. ^ Taft, Robert F. (1991). "Year, Liturgical". In Každan, Aleksandr Petrovič (ed.). The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York: Oxford university press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195046526.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.
  2. ^ Chavesse, Antoine (1950). "Temps de préparation à la Pâque d'après quelques livres liturgiques romains". Recherches de Science Religieuse (in French). 37 (1): 125–145. ISSN 0034-1258.
  3. ^ Cartlidge, Neil (2004). "The battle of Shrovetide: Carnival against Lent as a leitmotif in late medieval culture". Viator. 35: 517–542. doi:10.1484/J.VIATOR.2.300208. ISSN 0083-5897.

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