Sixth Sunday of Lent
In the Roman Rite the name "Passion Sunday" has never been officially applied to the sixth Sunday of Lent in spite of the reading at the Mass of that day of an account in one of the Synoptic Gospels of the Passion of Christ. Until 1969, the account read was always that of the Gospel of Matthew: the whole of chapters 26 and 27 (Matthew 26:1-27:66) until 1954, but reduced in 1955 to Matthew 26:36-27:60 and for priests celebrating a second or a third Mass on that day to Matthew 27:45-52 alone. Since 1970, the revision of the Roman Missal has introduced a three-year cycle in which the accounts of Matthew (26:14–27:66 or 27:11-54), Mark (14:1–15:47 or 15:1-39) and Luke (22:14–23:56 or 23:1-49 are read in successive years.
Until 1954, the name of the sixth Sunday of Lent was "Palm Sunday". In 1955, the name became, for 15 years only, "Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday". In 1970, it became "Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord".
Though the sixth Sunday of Lent has never officially been given the exact name "Passion Sunday" and though the term "Palm Sunday" is given first place in its present official name, some prefer to call it "Passion Sunday".
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