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Eve of Septuagesima, Suspension of the Alleluia
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    • For Saturday, January 31, 2026

    Excerpts from Dom Gueranger's The Liturgical Year, Volume 4, pp. 106 ff.

    On this day, the eve of Septuagesima, the Church uses a powerful means for infusing her own spirit into the minds of her children. She takes the song of heaven away from us: she forbids our further uttering that Alleluia which is so dear to us.

    It is not a mere word, nor a profane, unmeaning melody; it is the song that recalls the land we are banished from, it is the sweet sigh of the soul longing to be at home.
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