Sexagesima Sunday* Julia and I went to Wootton Church, Mr Maddoc it was a delightful sermon,
In the afternoon Mr.G.C. and Miss. J. Brading drank tea with us, after tea we walked into St Thomas’s Church, Newport, arrived home about 9 o’clock.
* No longer officially marked by the Catholic Church, Sexagesima Sunday still shows up in some liturgical calendars. It is the second Sunday before the start of Lent, which makes it the eighth Sunday before Easter. Traditionally, it was the second of three Sundays (Septuagesima is the first and Quinquagesima is the third) of preparation for Lent. Sexagesima literally means “sixtieth,” though it only falls 56 days before Easter.