Septuagesima: Beginning of the Liturgical Year?
“A new season has dawned, dark and foreboding.”
“The terrors of death surged round me, the cords of the nether world enmeshed me. In my distress I called upon the Lord; from His holy temple He heard my voice.”
These are the dramatic and foreboding words from the Introit which open the season of Septuagesima.
But what is thi…