Judica Sunday
English
Etymology
From Latin Judica (“Judge!”), from the first word of the introit of the day's mass, traditionally a Latin translation of Psalm 43.
Proper noun
- (Roman Catholicism) Synonym of Passion Sunday: the fifth Sunday in Lent.
- 1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)
- Thus in 1647, I in all humility accepted this removal, and preached my trial sermon on Judica Sunday, in the presence of the parishioners and commissaries.
- 1906, Ludwig Pastor, The History of the Popes: From the Close of the Middle Ages, page 96:
- The diet at Nuremberg was to be held on Invocavit Sunday, 2nd March, and that at the Emperor’s Court on Judica Sunday, 3Oth March.
- 1950, Luther League Review, Lutheran Church in America
- The fifth Sunday is “Judicia.” (Judge. Psalm 43:I.) Judicia Sunday is sometimes also called Black Sunday in contrast with the Sunday before it, and the nearness of the dark sorrows of Passion Week and Good Friday.
- 1862, Mrs. Malcolm (translator), Gustav Freytag (author), Martin Bötzinger (primary source), Pictures of German Life In the XVth, XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, volume 2, page 115, Chapman and Hall (London)