Holy Week (English Wikipedia)

Kosloski, Philip (28 March 2018). "What is "Spy Wednesday"?". Aleteia. Retrieved 17 April 2019. From Wednesday onward, Judas secretly watched for a chance to turn Jesus over to the chief priests, and so many Christians labeled this day as "Spy Wednesday." In the same vein various cultures reflected the somber mood of this day by calling it "Black Wednesday" or "Wednesday of Shadows," which also corresponds to the liturgical rite of Tenebrae that is celebrated on this day.

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A Catechism as used by – The Church of the Province of Southern Africa. The Anglican Communion. Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are Fast Days, when the amount of food eaten is reduced.

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Vlavianos, Sotirios (2011). "Great Week". In McGuckin, John Anthony (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. p. 281. ISBN 978-1-4051-8539-4. Great Week (or Holy Week) is the most important part of the liturgical year for the Eastern Churches. It belongs to the moveable liturgical cycle and follows the Holy and Great Lenten period, beginning with Palm Sunday and ending on Great Saturday evening before the Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection (Pascha).
Ripley, George; Dana, Charles Anderson (1883). The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary for General Knowledge. D. Appleton and Company. p. 101. The Protestant Episcopal, Lutheran, and Reformed churches, as well as many Methodists, observe the day by fasting and special services.

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Kirk, Lisa (25 March 2018). "Ideas for Displaying Palm Sunday Palms Around Your Home". Blessed Is She. Retrieved 4 April 2020.

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Cooper, J.HB. (23 October 2013). Dictionary of Christianity. Routledge. p. 124. ISBN 9781134265466. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Holy Week. The last week in LENT. It begins on PALM SUNDAY; the fourth day is called SPY WEDNESDAY; the fifth is MAUNDY THURSDAY or HOLY THURSDAY; the sixth is GOOD FRIDAY; and the last 'Holy Saturday', or the 'Great Sabbath'.
Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham (1896). The Historic Notebook: With an Appendix of Battles. J. B. Lippincott. p. 669. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The last seven days of this period constitute Holy Week. The first day of Holy Week is Palm Sunday, the fourth day is Spy Wednesday, the fifth Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday, the sixth Good Friday or Holy Friday, and the last Holy Saturday or the Great Sabbath in Eastern Rite traditions.
Ramshaw, Gail (2004). The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter. Augsburg Books. p. 7. ISBN 9780806651156. Retrieved 13 April 2014. Many Christians are already familiar with the ancient, and now recently restored, liturgies of the Three Days: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the great Easter Vigil service of light, readings, baptism, and communion. The worship resources published by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Episcopal Church, the United Methodist Church, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. and the Catholic Church include nearly identical versions of these liturgies.
Bower, Peter C. (1 January 2003). The Companion to the Book of Common Worship. Geneva Press. p. 111. ISBN 9780664502324. Retrieved 13 April 2014. Presbyterians, Methodists, and Roman Catholics call this day Passion/Palm Sunday; the United Church of Christ calls it Palm/Passion Sunday; Lutherans and Episcopalians call it The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday.
The Anglican Service Book. Good Shepherd Press. 1991. p. 171. ISBN 9780962995507. Sufficient bread and wine may be consecrated on this day for the Mass of the Presanctified on Good Friday. The Sacrament is then taken to an altar of repose where the faithful are asked to "watch and pray". The altar, symbol of Christ is stripped of its vesture and the building is left bare for the solemnity of Good Friday.
Mueller, Ella Numrich (17 October 2008). Life in Germany During World War II: From Padew in Galizien, Poland to America. AuthorHouse. p. 25. ISBN 9781463466923. Retrieved 13 April 2014. Good Friday was a largely celebrated day for Lutherans. The church bells did not ring, because Jesus was dead, and the altar at the church was draped in black.
Duck, Ruth C. (2013). Worship for the Whole People of God: Vital Worship for the 21st Century. Westminster John Knox Press. p. 131. ISBN 9780664234270. Retrieved 13 April 2014. The liturgical color is black-or no color if the paraments (altar cloths) have been stripped.
Pfatteicher, Philip H. (23 September 2013). Living the Liturgical Year. Oxford University Press. p. 212. ISBN 9780199997138. Retrieved 13 April 2014. The Three-Hour (Tre-ore) service, an extra-liturgical (that is, outside the liturgical tradition) service, held to mark the hours of Christ's passion from noon until three in the afternoon, was instituted by the Jesuits on the occasion of the 1687 Peru earthquake. The service was introduced into the Church of England in the 1860s and was for a time widely observed in Anglican and Lutheran and some Catholic churches. A prominent feature was preaching on the "Seven Last Words" of Jesus from the cross, a conflation of the accounts in the four Gospels.
J. Dudley Weaver Jr. (2002). Presbyterian Worship: A Guide for Clergy. Geneva Press. p. 102. ISBN 9780664502188. Retrieved 13 April 2014. The Easter Vigil consists of four parts: the Service of Light, the service of Readings (the Word), the celebration of Baptism, and the celebration of the Lord's Supper.
Jr, Dan W. Clanton; Clark, Terry R. (24 November 2020). The Oxford Handbook of the Bible and American Popular Culture. Oxford University Press. p. 497. ISBN 978-0-19-046142-3.
Holloway, Julia Bolton (1992). The Pilgrim and the Book: A Study of Dante, Langland, and Chaucer. Julia Bolton Holloway. ISBN 978-0-8204-2090-5., p. 32.

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Ruehlmann, Greg (21 March 2008). "In The Dark". Busted Halo. Retrieved 18 April 2019. It has not been popular in decades, and it would be misleading to call it a "best-kept secret" of the Catholic Church—it's celebrated by some mainline Anglican and Lutheran communities as well.

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"Library : Sermons on the Three Hours' Agony". www.catholicculture.org.

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"General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, 19". Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
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"Letter of the Congregation for Divine Worship, 14 March 2003". Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2008.

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Thomas M Landy, "Holy Week And Easter", Catholics & Cultures updated 17 February 2017
Thomas M Landy, "In Seville Marches And Saetas Accompany Holy Week Processions", Catholics & Cultures updated 27 June 2018

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"Śmigus-Dyngus: Poland's National Water Fight Day". Culture.pl.

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Reily, Suzel Ana (June 2006). "Remembering the Baroque Era: Historical Consciousness, Local Identity and the Holy Week Celebrations in a Former Mining Town in Brazil". Ethnomusicology Forum. 15 (1): 39–62. doi:10.1080/17411910600634247. JSTOR 20184539. S2CID 161691187.

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The Easter Sepulchre Ceremony in Durham Abbey Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine; Old Church Lore by William Andrews

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The Easter Sepulchre Ceremony in Durham Abbey Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine; Old Church Lore by William Andrews

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"Easter: How does Italy celebrate this festivity?". 8 April 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2024.

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Fein, Judith (8 April 2012). "Week Celebrations of the Yaqui Indians". Fox News. Retrieved 9 December 2013.

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Bartolome, Jessica (1 April 2015). "Doing the Visita Iglesia in Metro Manila". GMA News. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
"Easter Salubong: Rooted in culture, family ties". GMA News Online. 7 April 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

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"Part IV". www.holytrinitymission.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.

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Gramenz, Stefan (27 March 2021). "Holy Week II: Maundy Thursday". The Lutheran Missal.

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Tubeza, Philip C. (April 2013). "Faithful rejoice at 'salubong'". newsinfo.inquirer.net. Retrieved 29 March 2016.

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"Trapani and Its Mysteries". Italian Tourism Official Website. 23 March 2015.

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"PHOTOS: Cleaning Moravian gravestones, a Good Friday tradition". Winston-Salem Journal. 10 April 2020. Retrieved 11 April 2020.^{[permanent dead link]}

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Reily, Suzel Ana (June 2006). "Remembering the Baroque Era: Historical Consciousness, Local Identity and the Holy Week Celebrations in a Former Mining Town in Brazil". Ethnomusicology Forum. 15 (1): 39–62. doi:10.1080/17411910600634247. JSTOR 20184539. S2CID 161691187.
McGuire, Thomas (1989). "Ritual, Theater, and the Persistence of the Ethnic Group: Interpreting Yaqui Semana Santa". Journal of the Southwest. 31 (2): 159–178. JSTOR 40169672.

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"Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy". Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

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The Easter Morning Sunrise Service, This Month in Moravian History, Number 18, 2007-04, Moravian Archives, Bethlehem NC.

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Thurston, Herbert. "Holy Week." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 7. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910. 2 April 2023 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Thurston, Herbert (1913). "Holy Week". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. Retrieved 24 March 2018. Finally, Maundy Thursday has from an early period been distinguished by the service of the Maundy, or Washing of the Feet, in memory of the preparation of Christ for the Last Supper, as also by the stripping and washing of the altars

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Vila, Alixandra Caole (2 April 2015). "IN PHOTOS: A look at churches where Pinoys spend Visita Iglesia". The Philippine Star. philstar.com. Retrieved 13 April 2015.

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"Cielo e terra" (PDF) (in Italian). p. 134. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

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"Yaqui and Mayo Indian Easter ceremonies".

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"Holy Thursday: Number of Masses" (PDF).

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"Saint Faustina". Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2019.

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"1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2009.

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Reily, Suzel Ana (June 2006). "Remembering the Baroque Era: Historical Consciousness, Local Identity and the Holy Week Celebrations in a Former Mining Town in Brazil". Ethnomusicology Forum. 15 (1): 39–62. doi:10.1080/17411910600634247. JSTOR 20184539. S2CID 161691187.

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"La Sumana Santa di Barcellona Pozzo di Gotto: le origini delle splendide Vare che celebrano la Pasqua siciliana" (in Italian). 3 April 2021. Retrieved 5 January 2024.

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Weitzel, Thomas L. (1978). "A Handbook for the Discipline of Lent" (PDF). Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.

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"Filipino superstitions and practices during Holy Week". SunStar. 28 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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"Here there are the plenary indulgence available during the Holy Week". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 26 March 2024.

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Lopez, Eloisa; Torres, Joe (21 March 2016). "Traditions keep Holy Week alive in the Philippines". Union of Catholic Asian News. Manila. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2022.

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"Delve deeper into Holy Week with Jesus films". The United Methodist Church. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2020.
"Easter sunrise services: A celebration of resurrection". The United Methodist Church.

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"1920 typical edition of the Roman Missal" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 23 April 2009.
"General Norms for the Liturgical Year and the Calendar, 19". Archived from the original on 11 April 2009. Retrieved 18 April 2009.
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Weitzel, Thomas L. (1978). "A Handbook for the Discipline of Lent" (PDF). Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 March 2018. Retrieved 17 March 2018.
"Letter of the Congregation for Divine Worship, 14 March 2003". Archived from the original on 19 April 2014. Retrieved 21 March 2008.
The Easter Sepulchre Ceremony in Durham Abbey Archived 17 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine; Old Church Lore by William Andrews
"Sanctuary of the Divine Mercy". Archived from the original on 15 May 2021. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
"Saint Faustina". Archived from the original on 28 April 2019. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
Ribeiro, Patricia. "Easter in Brazil". Archived from the original on 12 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
Lopez, Eloisa; Torres, Joe (21 March 2016). "Traditions keep Holy Week alive in the Philippines". Union of Catholic Asian News. Manila. Archived from the original on 3 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
"Filipino superstitions and practices during Holy Week". SunStar. 28 March 2018. Archived from the original on 19 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
"Part IV". www.holytrinitymission.org. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011.

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Holweck, Frederick (1913). "Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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