Realising the drama of the Passion
In the liturgical calendar of the Catholic Church before the changes of the 1969 reform, the Church intensified the experience of Lent by calling the weeks from the 5th Sunday of Lent Passiontide. In a fascinating piece, the 19th-century Benedictine re-founder and liturgical scholar Prosper Louis Pascal Guéranger(1805-1875) explains how the Latin two-week intensified liturgical “sub-season”…