Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The two weeks between Passion Sunday and Easter.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In the Rom. Cath. calendar, the last two weeks of Lent, comprising Passion Week and Holy Week.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The last fortnight of Lent.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The period in the Christian calendar from Passion Sunday to Holy Saturday.

Etymologies

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passion (“The Passion (suffering) of Christ.”) +‎ -tide

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Examples

  • As with all processions, the subdeacon leads with the processional Cross, which, like all of the Crosses in Passiontide, is covered with a violet veil.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 1 - The Palm Sunday Blessing and Procession of Palms 2009

  • The veiling of Crosses in Passiontide is optional in the new rite, but if it done, the Missal no longer contains an exception for the Processional Cross of Palm Sunday.

    Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 9 - The Reform of 1955 and the Post-Conciliar Holy Week 2009

  • New Liturgical Movement: More from Malta in Passiontide skip to main | skip to sidebar

    More from Malta in Passiontide 2009

  • Today is Palm Sunday, also called the Second Sunday in Passiontide in the traditional Roman Rite, which commemorates Our Lord's triumphant entry into Jerusalem riding on a donkey and being hailed by the people with shouts of triumph.

    04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004 John 2004

  • It is sometimes asked why crosses and crucifixes are veiled during Lent and Passiontide, that is, at the season when the Cross and Passion are supposed to be predominant in the Church's teaching.

    Archive 2009-01-01 bls 2009

  • It is sometimes asked why crosses and crucifixes are veiled during Lent and Passiontide, that is, at the season when the Cross and Passion are supposed to be predominant in the Church's teaching.

    The Lenten Array bls 2009

  • It is sometimes asked why crosses and crucifixes are veiled during Lent and Passiontide, that is, at the season when the Cross and Passion are supposed to be predominant in the Church's teaching.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • It is sometimes asked why crosses and crucifixes are veiled during Lent and Passiontide, that is, at the season when the Cross and Passion are supposed to be predominant in the Church's teaching.

    The Lenten Array Fr Timothy Matkin 2006

  • In the traditional Roman rite, yesterday was the first Sunday in Passiontide.

    04/01/2003 - 05/01/2003 John 2003

  • We, therefore, refer the reader to the following chapter, in which we treat of the mysteries peculiar to Passiontide.

    Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week 2009

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