Dominica In Albis, Quasimodo Sunday and Divine Mercy Sunday

Dominica in Albis Reblog

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Today, the sunday immediately following Easter, goes under three different days.

The first is as the dominica in albis

The name comes from the ancient habit by which the newly baptised wore a white tunic for Easter and the following seven days, the sunday following Easter being the day when the white tunic was put away. Therefore, the day was called dominica in albis depositis or “sunday in which the white clothes are put away”.

This day is (or perhaps rather: was) also called “Quasimodo Sunday”, because on this day the anthiphon of the Tridentine Mass used the words taken from Peter, Quasi modo geniti infantes, Halleluja, rationabile, sine dolo lac concupiscite, something on the lines of “yearn the pure spiritual milk as if you were newborn children”. In the book “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, the protagonist is a deformed foundling who is, well, found on the easter following…

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