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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.
The name Estomihi is derived from the incipit or opening words of the Introit for the Sunday, Esto mihi in Deum protectorem, et in locum refugii, ut salvum me facias, ("Be Thou unto me a God, a Protector, and a place of refuge, to save me") Psalms 31:3 [2] The earliest Quinquagesima Sunday can occur is February 1 and the latest is March 7.
As such, liturgically, it does not have the same place of honor as the other seven purely Great Feasts of the Lord, which includes, among other things, the complete suppression of all Resurrectional elements from the Octoechos/Parakalitiki in all services related to a typical Sunday when one of the pure Great Feasts of the Lord happens to fall ...
Palm Sunday is considered the beginning of the Passion, the last days of Jesus' life before the Last Supper (Holy Thursday), his death (Good Friday), and his resurrection (Easter Sunday).
For because the eighth day, that is, the first day after the Sabbath, was to be that on which the Lord should rise again, and should quicken us, and give us circumcision of the spirit, the eighth day, that is the first day after the Sabbath, and the Lord's Day, went before in the figure; which figure ceased when by and by the truth came and ...
Jesus' actions in sharing the bread and wine have been linked with Isaiah 53:12 [42] which refers to a blood sacrifice that, as recounted in Exodus 24:8, [43] Moses offered in order to seal a covenant with God. Some scholars interpret the description of Jesus' action as asking his disciples to consider themselves part of a sacrifice, where ...
Palm Sunday is the Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. [3] Its name originates from the palm branches waved by the crowd to greet and honor Jesus Christ as he entered the city.
On the Sunday nearest September 28 (always two weeks after the Exaltation) the Armenian Apostolic Church and Armenian Catholic Church celebrate the Feast of the Holy Cross of Varak (Varaka Khach) commemorating the third century placement of an authentic relic of the cross in Armenian soil at Varagavank. This is a cross feast unique to the ...