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This Sunday you may be surprised to see purple vestments and purple antependia at the altar, lectern, and pulpit – here almost three weeks before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent. As part of the ongoing implementation of the new Missal approved by the Holy See for the Ordinariates, we begin a practice new to this parish but ancient and universal in Catholic worship from the 6th century until 1969 and a custom retained in the classic Anglican Books of Common Prayer – that is, the observance of a pre-Lenten period of preparation for the season of Lent which is itself a time of preparation for the joyous exultation of Easter.