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Thursday. Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. [1] In countries which adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the fifth day of the week.
Thursday: Old English Þūnresdæg (pronounced [ˈθuːnrezdæj]), meaning ' Þunor 's day'. Þunor means thunder or its personification, the Norse god known in Modern English as Thor . Similarly Dutch donderdag , German Donnerstag ('thunder's day'), Finnish torstai , and Scandinavian torsdag ('Thor's day').
April 2 (Western) April 9 (Eastern) Frequency. annual. Related to. Holy Week and Easter. Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, among other names, [ note 1 ] is the day during Holy Week that commemorates the Washing of the Feet (Maundy) and Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles, as described in the canonical gospels.
Churches who gather for a Maundy Thursday service might pray, conduct a foot washing service, read scripture, commemorate and participate in Communion, and have a time of singing.
Holy Thursday, Maundy Thursday meaning. The Last Supper, recognized on Holy Thursday, refers to the last meal Jesus ate with his disciples prior to his trial and crucifixion, around the time of ...
Sarah Josepha Hale wrote a letter to President Abraham Lincoln on September 28, 1863, requesting the last Thursday in November to be a day of Thanksgiving announced to the whole country. In ...
Holy Week. The entry of Jesus and his disciples into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, is the last week of Lent, between Palm Sunday and the dusk of Maundy Thursday. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Palm Sunday along with the Saturday of Lazarus marks the two-day transition between the 40 days of Great Lent and Holy Week.
The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ[1] (also called the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Ascension Day, Ascension Thursday, or sometimes Holy Thursday[2][3]) commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. It is one of the ecumenical (shared by multiple denominations) feasts of Christian churches ...