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Liturgy:Pre-Lent

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Liturgical year
Advent
Christmastide
Epiphanytide
Pre-Lent
 — Epiphany 5
 — Epiphany 6
 — Epiphany 7
 — Epiphany 8
 — Epiphany 9
Lent
Holy Week
Eastertide
Around Pentecost
Ordinary Time
Pre-Advent

Pre-Lent is not really a season of the liturgical year, but the in-between time from the Presentation of Christ in the Temple to Ash Wednesday. Some church calendars consider this period to be a part of Epiphanytide, while others consider it to be Ordinary Time. The liturgical colour is green: the ordinary colour. Sometimes referred to as Shrovetide, this season prepares for Lent.

Traditionally, the countdown to Lent has been held in Latin: Septuagesima, Sexagesima, Quinquagesima for the three Sundays before Lent.