In the Roman Rite the name "Passion Sunday" has never been officially applied to the sixth Sunday of Lent in spite of the reading at the Mass of that day of an account in one of the Synoptic Gospels of the Passion of Christ. Until 1969, the account read was always that of the Gospel of Matthew: the whole of chapters 26 and 27 () until 1954, but reduced in 1955 to and for priests celebrating a second or a third Mass on that day to alone. Since 1970, the revision of the Roman Missal has introduced a three-year cycle in which the accounts of Matthew ( or ), Mark ( or ) and Luke ( or are read in successive years.