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Quick Questions Why do we celebrate Jesus' birth on December 25?
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Quick Questions Why is rose used during Advent in the Advent wreath and vestments?
Quick Questions How did the Church determine that September 8 is the birthday of our Blessed Mother?
Quick Questions Should Catholics who support abortion receive ashes?
Quick Questions What should I do about my sister's refusal to celebrate birthdays and holidays?
Quick Questions Apart from Easter's significance, is there a reason the Church initiates new catechumens then?

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"In the week immediately before Lent everyone shall go to his confessor and confess his deeds and the confessor shall so shrive him as he then may hear by his deeds what he is to do [in the way of penance]."

~ Anglo-Saxon "Ecclesiastical Institutes" translated from Theodulphus by Abbot Aelfric about A.D. 1000; explaining the English term "shrovetide" (from "to shrive", or hear confessions) wherein the religious idea is uppermost; but before long, human nature allowed itself some exceptional licence.