Holy Week
Begins with Palm Sunday (a.k.a. Passion):
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Holy Thursday: important day of Holy Week:
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Good Friday:
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Holy Saturday:
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Easter Sunday
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- Jesus entered Jerusalem to celebrate Passover. People greeted him with palms
Now:
- Mass
- Receive Palms
- Read the Passion (the story of the suffering and death of Jesus)
Holy Thursday: important day of Holy Week:
Then:
- Jesus celebrates Passover with his Apostles
- **First Mass
- Apostles became the first priests
- Washing of the Feet
- Judas betrayed Jesus
- Agony in the garden
- Jesus is arrested
Now:
- Mass
- Washing of the feet
- Good Friday is the only day there is no mass anywhere in the world. But there is a service, and we receive communion—**extra hosts are consecrated Holy Thursday night for the next day**
- Side Altar with a tabernacle, candles, and flowers in addition to the normal altar—procession to side altar of Jesus going into the gardenàextra hosts are put in the tabernacle
- Main altar stripped
- People can come late at night and pray by the side altar
Good Friday:
Then:
- Jesus condemned to death
- Scourging at the pillar
- Crowning with thorns
- Carrying of the cross
- Stripped of his clothes
- Jesus was nailed to the cross
- Jesus died on the cross
- Jesus was taken down from the cross and put in Mary’s arms
- Jesus was placed in the tomb
Now:
- No Mass
- Service: 3 Parts:
- Liturgy of the word (Reading of the Passion & Ten Prayers of the Church)
- Veneration of the Cross
- Communion Rite
- The church is left quiet as a tomb
Holy Saturday:
Then:
- Jesus is in the tomb
Now:
- Easter Vigil
- *Holiest night of the year
- Lighting of the new fire
- Lighting of the Pascal candle
- Easter proclamation (exsultet)
- 4-7 readings
- Homily
- RCIA
- Renewal of baptismal vows
- Blessing of water
- Lots of alleluias
- Rest of the mass is regular
Easter Sunday
Then:
- Jesus rose from the dead
Now:
- Mass
- Renew baptismal vows
- Lots of alleluias
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