2021年4月2日 星期五

Friday, Good Friday, Easter, shrive. Shrove Tuesday, TGIF







梵蒂岡聖伯多祿廣場,教宗方濟各紀念耶穌受難日。 Nadia Shira Cohen for The New York Times


• 巴黎圣母院大火之後第二次舉行禮拜儀式,紀念耶穌受難日。巴黎總主教米歇爾·奧珀蒂等羅馬天主教官員在只有少數人到場的情況下舉行了儀式。在梵蒂岡,週日的複活節彌撒將於當地上午11時在聖彼得大教堂舉行。教宗方濟各預計將在沒有信徒在場的情況下主持儀式。


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Today is ‪#‎PancakeDay‬! Traditionally known as Shrove Tuesday, it celebrates the last day before the Christian fasting season of Lent. These illustrations are depictions of traditional Dutch pancake womenhttp://ow.ly/XWxTa



Easter

Line breaks: Eas¦ter
Pronunciation: /ˈiːstə /

NOUN

  • 1The most important and oldest festival of the Christian Church, celebrating the resurrection of Christ and held (in the Western Church) between 21 March and 25 April, on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the northern spring equinox.春分之後的滿月

  • 1.1The weekend from Good Friday to Easter Monday.
    • Eastgate promotions manager Mike Horton said: ‘This will be one of the most active Easters ever in terms of family entertainment at Eastgate.’
    • We are normally fully booked for Easter and the weekends in March are also very busy.
    • The leader of the remnant of the Conservatives is to climb each peak on successive days over Easter.

Origin

Old English ēastre; of Germanic origin and related to German Ostern and east; perhaps from Ēastre, the name of a goddess associated with spring.

Easter :復活節;逾越節;復活瞻禮;耶穌復活。拉丁文稱作 pascha 

Easter cycle :復活期:自復活節起,至聖神降臨節-五旬節,共五十天。

Easter duty :復活節義務;滿四規:按各地教會規定,每年復活節前後,教友應辦告解及領聖體,以滿全教會四規中的第三規,故稱。

Easter eggs :復活蛋;復活彩色蛋:復活節畫彩蛋活動,象徵耶穌自墓中復活。

Easter season :復活期。

Easter triduum :逾越節三日慶典;復活節三日慶典。拉丁文為 triduum sacrum 

Easter Vigil :復活節前夕;復活節守夜;聖周星期六;望復活。

Easter Week :復活周。




Good Friday :耶穌受難日;聖周星期五;聖周禮拜五;聖瞻禮六。
耶穌受難日(Good Friday )



Good Friday

Line breaks: Good Fri¦day

NOUN

  • The Friday before Easter Sunday, on which the Crucifixion of Christ is commemorated in the Christian Church. It is traditionally a day of fasting and penance.
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    • Children can take part in an Easter Trail on Good Friday and Easter Sunday at East Riddlesden Hall.
    • If Good Friday and Easter Monday occur outside the standard break they are taken as a freestanding long weekend.
    • Her passing was truly an Easter death - poised between Good Friday and Easter Day.

Origin

from good, in the sense 'holy, observed as a holy day'.
TGIF

Friday

Line breaks: Fri¦day
Pronunciation: /ˈfrʌɪdeɪ , -di/

NOUN

  • The day of the week before Saturday and following Thursday:he was arrested on Fridaythe previous Fridaythe cleaning woman came on Fridays[AS MODIFIER]: Friday evening

ADVERB

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  • 1On Friday:we’ll try again Friday
    1.1
  • (Fridays) On Fridays; each Friday:he goes there Fridays
    Origin
Old English Frīgedæg 'day of Frigga', named after the Germanic goddess Frigga, wife of the supreme god Odin and goddess of married love; translation of late Latin Veneris dies 'day of Venus', Frigga being equated with the Roman goddess of love, Venus. Compare with Dutch vrijdag and German Freitag.


Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day. The character is the source of the ...
Shrove Tuesday


Pronunciation: /ˌʃrəʊv ˈtjuːsdeɪ /

Definition of Shrove Tuesday in English:

 懺悔(ざんげ)火曜日:灰の水曜日(Ash Wednesday)の前日.

NOUN

The day before Ash Wednesday. Though named for its former religious significance, it is chiefly marked by feasting and celebration, which traditionally preceded the observance of the Lenten fast. Compare with Mardi Gras.
Definition of shrive in English:

VERB (past shrove /ʃrəʊv/; past participle shriven /ˈʃrɪv(ə)n/)

[WITH OBJECT] archaic
1(Of a priest) hear the confession of, assign penance to, and absolve:none of her chaplains knew English or French enough to shrive the king
1.1 (shrive oneself) Present oneself to a priest for confessionpenance, and absolution.

Origin

Old English scrīfan 'impose as a penance', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schrijven and German schreiben 'write', from Latin scribere 'write'.

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