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See also:PASSION See also:WEEK , the fifth See also:week in See also:Lent, beginning with See also:Passion See also:Sunday (See also:dominica passions or de passione domini), so called from very See also:early times because with it begins the more See also:special See also:commemoration of See also:Christ's passion . Passion week is often incorrectly identified with See also:Holy week (q.v.) . In the See also:north of See also:England Passion Sunday was formerly known as Carle or Carling Sunday, a name corrupted from " care," in allusion to the sorrowful See also:season which the See also:day heralds . |
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