eth, and _Septuagesima_, _i.e._, the seventieth." The reason
for thus numbering these Sundays has been beautifully set forth
in "Thoughts on the Services" as follows: "The Church now
(Septuagesima Sunday) enters the penumbra of her Lenten Eclipse,
and all her services are shadowed with the sombre hue of her
approaching Season of humiliation. . . .We have turned our back
upon dear old Christmas and the group of holy days that hand in
hand seemed fairly to dance around it; and setting our faces towards
the more sober, but still more glorious, light of Easter we begin
to number the days of preparation, which if duly observed will fit
us to keep the Paschal as the Apostle commands, 'not with the old
leaven. . .but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.'"
(See PRE-LENTEN SEASON.)

Server.--One who attends the Priest at a celebration of the Holy
Communion. The server may be either a layman or one of the Clergy.

Sexagesima.--The second Sunday before Lent is so called, because it
is about sixty days before Easter; _Sexagesima_ meaning sixtieth.
(See SEPTUAGESIMA.)

Sexts.--One of the seven CANONICAL HOURS (which see).

Shell.--(See BAPTISMAL SHELL.)

Shrove Tuesday.--The old name given to the Tuesday before Ash
Wednesday, because on that day every one was accustomed to go to
the Priest before {241} beginning the observance of Lent, to be
shrived, shriven, shrove, _i.e._, to confess and be absolved. Certain
social customs have been popularly connected with this day, making
it a day of merriment and sports and dining on pancakes or
fritters. The practice of eating pancakes on this day still
survives in many places, and hence it is also called Pancake
Tuesday or Pancake Day.

Sick.--(See VISITATION OF THE SICK.)

Sign of the Cross.--(See CROSS, THE.)

Simon (St.) and Saint Jude's Day.--A festival of the Church observed
on October 28th. The union of these two Apostles on this day of
commemoration is intended to teach, as we learn from the Collect,
a lesson of Christian love and that oneness or unity of the Church
for which our Lord prayed. St. Simon was called to be an Apostle
and he is mentioned in Holy Scripture as the "Canaanite" and
"Zelotes," both words meaning a _zealot_. He is supposed to have
labored in Egypt and parts of Africa adjacent. One tradition has
it that he suffered martyrdom by being sawn asunder in Persia, at
the same time with St. Jude who ministered in that country and who
was martyred