{"id":44920,"date":"2025-03-07T11:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T09:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\/liturgical\/domenica-allinizio-di-quaresima-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:15:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:15:53","slug":"sunday-at-the-beginning-of-lent-2","status":"publish","type":"liturgical","link":"https:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\/en\/liturgical\/sunday-at-the-beginning-of-lent-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday at the beginning of Lent"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"\" class=\"block-text-photo \" aria-label=\"Sunday at the beginning of Lent\"  style=\"background: #01131F\"  name=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-12\">\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 col-xxl-6 order-md-2 left \">\n                            <div class=\"content-text\">\n                                                                <h2  style=\"color: #fff\" >\n                                    Sunday at the beginning of Lent                                <\/h2>\n                                <div class=\"content-mobile\">\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Imposizone-delle-Ceneri-con-lArcivescovo-Duomo-di-Milano-scaled.jpg\">                                <\/div>\n                                <div id=\"description-block_f3130050d0304948b971353c9efa7589\" class=\"description\"  style=\"color: #fff\" >\n                                    <style>#description-block_f3130050d0304948b971353c9efa7589 a,a:hover,a:visited,a:focus { color: #fff }<\/style><p><strong>7 a.m. &#8211; 6.30 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SATURDAY 8 MARCH<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>4.45 p.m.<\/strong> Musical Elevation introducing the celebration<br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>5.30 p.m<\/strong>. vigil Eucharist<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY 9 MARCH<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Eucharistic celebrations 7 a.m. &#8211; 8 a.m. &#8211; 9.30 a.m. &#8211; 11 a.m. &#8211; 12.30 p.m. &#8211; 5.30 p.m.<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>10.30 a.m.<\/strong> Morning Lauds<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong> 4.30 p.m.<\/strong> Vespers and Eucharistic benediction<br \/>\n&#8211;<strong> 5.30 p.m.<\/strong> Eucharist and Rite of Imposition of Ashes presided over by His Excellency the Archbishop<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is possible to follow the Musical Elevation and Vigil Eucharist (Saturday, March 8th), the celebration at 9:30 a.m. and the Eucharist at 5:30 p.m. presided by the Archbishop Monsignor Mario Delpini (Sunday, March 9th) in streaming <strong>on this Site (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\">www.duomomilano.it<\/a>) from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCvYKUs5EsrVCZgiDz6-2z8Q\">YouTube channel Duomo Milano TV<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Domenica-allinizio-di-Quaresima-I-di-Quaresima.pdf\"><strong>Download the Program<\/strong><\/a> of the <em>Musical Chapel<\/em> performances<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 col-xxl-6 order-md-1 right\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.duomomilano.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Imposizone-delle-Ceneri-con-lArcivescovo-Duomo-di-Milano-scaled.jpg\">                        <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<section id=\"\" class=\"block-text-photo \" aria-label=\"\"  style=\"background: #FFFFFF\"  name=\"\">\n        <div class=\"container-fluid\">\n        <div class=\"row\">\n            <div class=\"col-12\">\n                <div class=\"container\">\n                    <div class=\"row\">\n                        <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 content-text-full order-md-2 left \">\n                            <div class=\"content-text\">\n                                                                <h2 >\n                                                                    <\/h2>\n                                <div class=\"content-mobile\">\n                                                                    <\/div>\n                                <div id=\"description-block_68a6b40222b35143b9c1ba83da956908\" class=\"description\" >\n                                    <p><strong>The Ambrosian Rite<\/strong> has never known, as the beginning of the Lenten Season, the so-called &#8220;Ash Wednesday\u2019&#8221;(this year on 5 March), typical instead of the Roman Rite tradition, but<strong> has always made this liturgical Season begin with First Vespers from the <em>sixth Sunday before Easter<\/em><\/strong>, what the Ambrosian liturgical books still call the Sunday \u2018at the beginning of Lent\u2019 ((\u00ab<em>in capite quadragesim\u00e6<\/em>\u00bb).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An exhaustive answer as to the reason for this different computation between the two Rites is certainly very complex. It seems clear, however, that the Milanese liturgy tends to take up, on the one hand, the tradition according to which one should not fast on Saturdays and Sundays and, on the other, the more ancient and original computation of Lent. It was in fact considered as the period between <em>Sunday at the beginning of Lent<\/em> and <em>Vespers on Holy Thursday<\/em>, when the Triduum of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of the Lord begins. <strong>Ambrosian Lent is then configured as a period of forty days, of penance, but not of strict fasting, in preparation for the celebrations of the solemn <em>Easter Triduum.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, for a long time, precisely in Milan, the Rite of Imposition of Ashes was not celebrated in connection with Lent: for example, a provision from the time of Saint Charles Borromeo, in 1583, prescribed that, in the Ambrosian Rite, ashes be imposed on the faithful on the first of the three days of penance (Litanies triduane) celebrated before Pentecost. <strong>According to a more recent tradition, this penitential rite was linked to the beginning of Lent and precisely to the first Monday, with the possibility of anticipating it, for pastoral reasons, to Sunday<\/strong>, when the participation of the faithful is greater.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year, in the Duomo, <strong>the Rite of Imposition of Ashes is performed during the 5.30 p.m. celebration on Sunday 9 March<\/strong> presided over by Archbishop Monsignor Mario Delpini and <strong>at the end of all the celebrations on Monday 10 March<\/strong> (Monday of the First Week of Lent).<\/p>\n                                <\/div>\n                                                            <\/div>\n                        <\/div>\n                        <div class=\"col-12 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-6 col-xxl-6 order-md-3 right\">\n                                                    <\/div>\n                    <\/div>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":44903,"template":"","event_cat":[171],"class_list":["post-44920","liturgical","type-liturgical","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event_cat-celebrations"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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