Holy Week

Holy Week is the Christian week from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday.

Related Topics:
Christian - Palm Sunday - Holy Saturday

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Each of the days of Holy Week has its own traditions of services in the West. Believers are encouraged to follow in their prayers with readings from the Gospel the account of each of the actions from the time of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and death of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter Sunday. While each day has special mass celebrations in the Western churches, the week's most elaborate services are on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter. In the Reformation, emphasis was taken away from the Passion and placed upon the resurrection of Jesus, but contemporary Protestant Churches, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, holds the three days between Good Friday and Easter to be the holiest days of the calendar.

Related Topics:
Gospel - Jesus - Jerusalem - Palm Sunday - Crucifixion - Good Friday - Resurrection - Easter - Mass - Holy Thursday - Holy Saturday - Reformation - Passion - Protestant - Roman Catholic Church

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