Sundays after Pentecost in the Paduensis Sacramentary
  • gregpgregp
    Posts: 632
    As I was reading "The Advent Project" by James McKinnon, I came across this:(p. 107).

    "The Paduensis was adapted from its Lateran original for presbyteral use at St. Peter's basilica sometime between 650 and 680, perhaps around 663. It omits certain papal items, such as prayers for baptisms and ordinations, and adds others, most notably prayers for the ordinary Sundays; five for Sundays after Epiphany, five for Sundays after Easter, and twenty-three for Sundays after Pentecost, the last group arranged in the Roman manner with four after Pentecost, five after the feast of Saints Peter and Paul (June 29). five after St. Lawrence (August 10), and nine after the dedication of St. Michael the Archangel (September 29)."

    Two questions: are there any relics of this in the modern (1962) rite? And when did this change to the 23+ Sundays after Pentecost? (Trent, maybe?)
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  • PLTT
    Posts: 150
    As to the second part of the question: I would say that different arrangements coexisted in different places, before the current arrangement won out, and then dominated others through the diffusion of the Roman liturgical books into which it had been adopted. The Supplementum to the Gregorian Sacramentary (formerly attributed to Alcuin but now usually to St. Benedict of Aniane) has the 23 Sundays after Pentecost and 6 post-epiphany (which it terms "theophany").

    But even though the naming of the Sundays after multiple feasts fell out quickly, that did not mean that all adopted the scheme of denominating Sundays by Pentecost - another fixed day might be chosen (the octave day, later the feast of the Trinity, being one of the most popular, but also saint's days).
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  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,782
    The Sundays after... are more about how they were counted.

    The NO counts ordinary time, the EF counts Sundays after Pentecost, the Sarum counted Sundays after Trinity, etc

    The Liturgical Year, Gueranger has some pages about this, This is the first quote, will dig out some of the other later.

    In the Roman liturgy the Sundays of this series go under the name of 'Sundays after Pentecost.' As we shall show in the next chapter, that title is the most suitable that could have been given, and is found in the oldest sacramentaries and anti· phonaries, but it was not universally adopted even by those Churches which followed the Roman rite; in progress of time, however, that title became the general one. To mention some of the previous early names: in the Comes of Alcuin, which takes us back to the eighth century, we find the first section of these Sundays called 'Sundays after Pentecost' ; the second is named 'weeks after the feast of the Apostles' (post natale Apostolorum); the third goes under the title of weeks after St. Laurence' (post Sancti Laurentii) j the fourth has the appellation of 'weeks of the seventh month' (September); and, lastly, the fifth is termed' weeks after St. Michael' (post Sancti Angeli), and lasts till Advent. As late
    as the sixteenth century many missals of the western Churches gave us these several sections of the Time after Pentecost, but some of the titles varied accord­ ing to the special saints honoured in the respective dioceses, whose feasts were taken as the date-marks of this period of the year. The Roman missal, published by order of St. Pius V, has gradually been adopted in all our Latin churches, and has restored the ancient denomination to the ecclesiastical season we have just entered upon; so that the only name under which it is now known amongst us is 'the Time after Penteoost' (post Pentecosten).
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