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Holy Saturday (Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum), also known as Great and Holy Saturday (also Holy and Great Saturday), Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil), Saturday of the Glory, Sábado de Gloria, and Black Saturday or Easter Eve, [1] and called "Joyous Saturday", "the Saturday of Light", and "Mega Sabbatun" among Coptic Christians, is the final day of Holy ...
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851). Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
President Jimmy Carter’s hearse arrived in Atlanta Saturday afternoon after his six-day funeral schedule began that morning.. Carter, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and peanut farm operator who ...
According to halakha (Jewish religious law), Shabbat is observed from a few minutes before the sun sets on Friday evening until the appearance of three stars in the sky on Saturday night, or an hour after sundown. [2] Shabbat is ushered in by lighting candles and reciting blessings over wine and bread.
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The first blessing recited following the Shema during Maariv Hashkiveinu: השכיבנו The second blessing recited following the Shema during Maariv Baruch Adonai L'Olam: ברוך ליהוה לעולם The third blessing recited following the Shema during Maariv. This blessing is only said by some communities, mostly outside of Israel.
Before the reading of the Megillah on Purim, both at night and again in the morning, the reader of the Megillah recites the following three blessings and at the end of each blessing the congregation then responds by answering "Amen" after each of the blessings. [51] At the morning reading of the Megillah the congregation should have in mind ...
Any Catholic priest may invest a baptised Catholic with the Brown Scapular. The most recent Rite for the Blessing of and Enrollment in the Scapular, approved in 1996 by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, is available in booklet form. [11] The short form of the investiture is as follows: [12] [13] [14]