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

Judica Sunday

1. (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 XV^th, XVI^th and XVII^th 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”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), 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.

Related terms

• Invocavit Sunday, Reminiscere Sunday, Oculi Sunday, Laetare Sunday