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Show READ THIS. Tomorrow (Sunday) will be Quinguagesima Sunday. Sunday, 23d January, was Septuagesima Sunday; Sunday, 30th January, was Sexagesima Sunday, and on February 9 we have Ash Wednesday. Wednes-day. Xow, what does it all mean? Well, septuagesima septua-gesima is Latin for seventy, that is to say, Sunday, January 23, is about seventy days from Easter or Resurrection Sunday. Sexagesima about sixty days, and Quinguagesima Sunday about fifty days from Easter Sunday, which falls this year on March 27. It is also of supreme interest to remember that the Epistles, Gospels and the Tracts of the Missal or Mass-book, read by the sacrificing priest on these three Sundays, deal with three great facts in the life of the human race. Septuagesima tells the story of Creation how the first man, Adama, was made. Sexagesima tells the sad story of the Fall how by the one man sin entered into the world and death by sin. Quinguigesima points to Redemption through the Second Man the Supernatural Man, Jesus Christ the anti-type of the first man, the natural man, Adam. Here are three historical facts, Creation, Crea-tion, the Fall of Man, the Incarnation of God. Of these three facts the world's history is the extension. exten-sion. The whole human race is the extension of Creation. Universal sin is the extension of the Fall of Man. The Catholic Church is the extension exten-sion of the Incarnation. These three facts are living liv-ing facts in the world's history, extending from the remote past into the present, touching and affecting affect-ing the entire human race. |