Judica Sunday

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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 XVth, XVIth and XVIIth 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.