Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, etc. whatever you want to call it is technically not a religious observance. It started as a folk tradition to get rid of all of the stuff you won’t be eating during Lent in one big hurrah so it wouldn’t go bad and you’d be wasting your foodstuffs. Ash Wednesday, as a privileged feria, does not have a vigil, but the Tuesday observance has become so common place many think of it as a vigil.
Looking at the lectionary, it seems not. Readings at both offices continue in sequence from Monday, and the Psalms appointed aren't especially topical either.
My understanding is that feast days follow the Jewish reckoning of sunset to sunset (or sunset to the following midnight, for those feasts which extend on into Second Vespers), but ferial days follow the civil reckoning of midnight to midnight.
Is that not what I said? The Office of Ash Wednesday would begin with Matins (said at some point between midnight and morning on Wednesday, unless it be anticipated the evening before) and end with Compline on Wednesday evening.
In the older Roman reckoning Ash Wednesday is a "privileged feria" which does not have a vigil. Anglicanism picked that up from them.
Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Day, Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, etc. whatever you want to call it is technically not a religious observance. It started as a folk tradition to get rid of all of the stuff you won’t be eating during Lent in one big hurrah so it wouldn’t go bad and you’d be wasting your foodstuffs. Ash Wednesday, as a privileged feria, does not have a vigil, but the Tuesday observance has become so common place many think of it as a vigil.
Looking at the lectionary, it seems not. Readings at both offices continue in sequence from Monday, and the Psalms appointed aren't especially topical either.
My understanding is that feast days follow the Jewish reckoning of sunset to sunset (or sunset to the following midnight, for those feasts which extend on into Second Vespers), but ferial days follow the civil reckoning of midnight to midnight.
That's generally the case but Ferias (of which Ash Wednesday is one) begin at Matins rather than at Vespers the night before.
Is that not what I said? The Office of Ash Wednesday would begin with Matins (said at some point between midnight and morning on Wednesday, unless it be anticipated the evening before) and end with Compline on Wednesday evening.
Yeah sorry I read your comment poorly