page_title: Passion Sunday
section_title: Anglican usage
hierarchical_section_title: Passion Sunday / Fifth Sunday of Lent / Anglican usage
caption_attribution_description: St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral: the altar as seen from among the pews of the choir. The altar cross is veiled for Passiontide.
context_page_description: In the liturgical year of some Christian denominations, Passion Sunday is the fifth Sunday of Lent, marking the beginning of the two-week period called Passiontide. In 1969, the Roman Catholic Church removed Passiontide from the liturgical year of the Novus Ordo form of the Mass, but the day remains observed on the fifth Sunday in the Extraordinary Form mass, the formerly Anglican catholics of the Personal Ordinariates, the Anglican Communion, and by Lutherans.
  In Scotland the day is known as Care Sunday or Carling Sunday, a term that seems originally to have been applied to Palm Sunday.
context_section_description: In those Anglican churches which follow the Sarum Use, crimson vestments and hangings are pressed into service on the fifth Sunday of Lent – replacing the Lenten array (unbleached muslin cloth) – and vestments are crimson until (and including) Holy Saturday. Reflecting the recent shift away from the observance of Passiontide as a distinct season, the Church of England's Common Worship liturgical resources suggest red for Holy Week only (with the exception of the Maundy Thursday Eucharist).
caption: The altar cross veiled in crimson for Passiontide at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Memphis, Tennessee
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