Use of Sarum

medieval liturgy

Also known as: Sarum Use

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In church year: Advent
…medieval service books, notably the Use of Sarum (Salisbury), extensively followed in England, with its Sunday before Advent. The coming of Christ in his Nativity was overlaid with a second theme, also stemming from Gallican churches, namely, his Second Coming at the end of time. This interweaving of the themes…
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In church year: Pentecost or Trinity Season
…was taken up in the Use of Sarum and was accepted at Rome in 1334 by Pope John XXII. It became common to date the Sundays after this feast, instead of after Pentecost, as in the Roman liturgy, and this practice was followed by the Carthusians and the Dominicans and…
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In church year: Liturgical colours
In the Use of Sarum, white, red, and blue were the primary colours; but in Lent an unbleached cloth was customary, changing to deep red during the two weeks before Easter.
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