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While in the modern Roman liturgy we today celebrated the 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time, and will celebrate the 5th and the 6th Sundays in Ordinary time respectively in the next two weeks, and while green vestments are worn on these Sundays, within the usus antiquior we would have noted today violet vestments, no Gloria and no Alleluia. This is because, in accordance with the calendar of the usus antiquior, we have entered the pre-Lenten period, respectively referred to each successive Sunday by "Septuagesima" (seventieth), Sexagesima (sixtieth), and Quinquagesima (fiftieth) -- these numbers being symbolic, tied to the reference of "Quadragesima" (fortieth) which comes in reference to the forty days of Lent of course.
