Publican and Pharisee Sunday before Septuagesima The Prodigal Son Septuagesima Apocreos Sexagesima Tyrinis, or Tyrophagus Quinquagesima First of the Fasts (or Orthodoxy) First Sunday in Lent Second of the Fasts Second Sunday in Lent Third of the Fasts (or Adoration of Third Sunday in Lent the Cross) Fourth of the Fasts Fourth Sunday in Lent Fifth of the Fasts Fifth Sunday in Lent Palms Sixth Sunday in Lent (Palm Sunday) Holy Pasch Easter Antipasch (or St Thomas) First Sunday after Easter Myrrh-bearers Second Sunday after Easter Paralytic Third Sunday after Easter Samaritan Woman Fourth Sunday after Easter Blind Man Fifth Sunday after Easter The Three hundred and eighteen[172] Sunday after Ascension-day Pentecost Whitsunday First after Pentecost (or All Saints) Trinity Sunday The following Sundays are numbered the Second, Third, Fourth after Pentecost, and so on, till we reach the Sunday of the Publican (the Sunday before Septuagesima) in the following year. But while the numbers are continuous, special names are given to certain Sundays. Thus we find the Sunday before and the Sunday after the Exaltation of the Cross (Sept. 14); the Sundays before and after the Nativity; the Sundays before and after the Lights (_i.e._ the Epiphany). Again, we sometimes find the Sundays after Pentecost referred to as the First, Second, Third, etc., of Matthew; because the liturgical Gospel on these Sundays, on to the Exaltation of the Cross, is taken from St Matthew. Similarly, after the Exaltation of the Cross and on to Apocreos the liturgical Gospel for the Sundays is taken from St Luke, and the Sundays are named First, Second, Third, etc., of Luke. It is the subject-matter of the Gospel for the day which gives its name to the Sundays called the Publican, the Prodigal, St Thomas, the Myrrh-bearers (_i.e._ the women bringing spices to the tomb), etc. On the Sunday of Orthodoxy (the first in Lent) some sixty anathemas against heresy of various kinds are recited, including several against the Iconoclasts who were condemned at the second Council of Nicaea (A.D. 787). Tyrinis (or Tyrophagus) and Apocreos are explained elsewhere[173]. The name ‘Antipasch,’ for the first Sunday after Easter (Low Sunday; _Dominica in Albis_), implies that it is ‘over against’ or ‘answering to’ the Pasch. On the Sunday of the Three hundred and eighteen holy Fathers of Nicaea a canon (or metrical hymn) in honour of the Council is sung.