Septuagesima for the Rest of Us: Pre-Lent with the 2019 Book of Common Prayer
There is an odd rubric at the back of the 2019 Book of Common Prayer: “The last three Sundays before Lent may be observed as Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima.”[1] When I first encountered this direction, it confused me. Having grown up in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and then transitioning to the Anglican Church…