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| | Holy Week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A popular Holy Thursday tradition is the Bisita Iglesia (Church Visit), which involves visiting several Churches at which the faithful would pray the Stations of the Cross. | | | 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. | | | In this largely Roman Catholic nation, Holy Week, known as Semana Santa, is treated as one of the most important religious festivals of the entire year. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Week
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| | Holy Week in the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| | Holy Unction is one of the seven Sacraments of the Church, and it has its origin in the practice of the early Church as recorded in the Epistle of James (5:14-15). | | | Holy Week in the Eastern Orthodox Church institutes the sanctity of the whole calendar year of the Church. | | | The institution of the Holy Eucharist and its re-enactment through the centuries, both as a sacrifice and sacred ceremony (Mysterion), is the life giving remembrance which, along with the Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ, constitutes the basis of salvation for the Christian. |
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http://www.goarch.org/en/ourfaith/articles/article8432.asp
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| | Holy Week |
| | The purpose of Holy Week is to reenact, relive, and participate in the passion of Jesus Christ. | | | The eastern Church consists of the Eastern Orthodox churches, the Oriental Orthodox churches, and the eastern-rite churches affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. | | | Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church, when devout people traveled to Jerusalem at Passover to reenact the events of the week leading up to the Resurrection. |
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http://www.kencollins.com/holy-05.htm
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| | DoveSong.com -- The Music of Holy Week |
| | Holy Week is a reenactment, an expression and connection with the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. | | | The music composed for use by the Catholic church for Holy Week is some of the most poignant and beautiful of all. | | | In the protestant church, the spirit of Easter is celebrated in the glorious Cantata #4 of J.S. Bach: Christ Lag in Todesbanden. |
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http://www.dovesong.com/Positive_music/archives/renaissance/Holy_Week.asp
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| | HOLY WEEK AND PASCHA IN JERUSALEM |
| | The washing of the feet was in the court opposite the holy gates of the Church of the Resurrection. | | | We stood in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. | | | We had Matins in the Church of the Resurrection and had Liturgy on the Grave of Christ, and I was deemed worthy to be a partaker of the Holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of Christ. |
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http://www.ocf.org/OrthodoxPage/reading/holyfire.html
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| | The Days of Holy Week |
| | In Catholic tradition, the conclusion to the week is called the Easter Triduum (a triduum is a space of three days usually accompanying a church festival or holy days that are devoted to special prayer and observance). | | | The entire week between Palm Sunday and Holy Saturday is included in Holy Week, and some church traditions have daily services during the week. | | | It is this dimension that is well served by Holy Week observances, as they call us to move behind the joyful celebrations of Palm Sunday and Easter, and focus on the suffering, humiliation, and death that is part of Holy Week. |
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http://www.cresourcei.org/cyholyweek.html
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Week |
| | Holy Week is the week which precedes the great festival of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, and which consequently is used to commemorate the Passion of Christ, and the event which immediately led up to it. | | | The service of Holy Saturday has lost much of the significance and importance which it enjoyed in the early Christian centuries owing to the irresistible tendency manifested throughout the ages to advance the hour of its celebration. | | | It is probable that both the silence of the bells and the withdrawing of lights, which we remark in the Tenebrae service, are to be referred to the same source -- a desire of expressing outwardly the sense of the Church's bereavement during the time of Christ's Passion and Burial. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07435a.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday) |
| | The feast of Maundy (or Holy) Thursday solemnly commemorates the institution of the Eucharist and is the oldest of the observances peculiar to Holy Week. | | | Holy Thursday could not but be a day of liturgical reunion since, in the cycle of movable feasts, it brings around the anniversary of the institution of the Liturgy. | | | Canon 24 of the Council of Carthage dispenses the faithful from fast before communion on Holy Thursday, because, on that day, it was customary take a bath, and the bath and fast were considered incompatible. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10068a.htm
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| | Holy Week |
| | Holy Week symbolism naturally center on the Instruments of the Passion and on the persons and things mentioned in the gospel accounts of the Crucifixion. | | | Holy Week, a sub-season of Lent, begins on Palm Sunday (sixth Sunday in Lent) and embraces the last seven days before Easter. | | | The gospel story of Jesus' trial and sufferings, which is usually read in churches on Palm Sunday, is called the Passion, according to St. Matthew, St. Mark or St. Luke. |
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http://www.hopeaustin.org/holy_week.htm
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| | Springtime and Signs: Lent and Holy Week |
| | For these candidates, known as catechumens, the seven weeks of Lent and Holy Week were figuratively and literally the time during which they passed from darkness to light and from death to life. | | | Irrespective of the particular forms that observances of Lent and Holy Week took, their goals and purposes were the same. | | | In addition to âHoly Week,â it was known as the âWeek of the Holy Passionâ â” from the Latin word âpassusâ which means âto sufferâ â” and âThe Week of Forgiveness.â |
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http://www.boundless.org/2002_2003/features/a0000738.html
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| | Holy Week |
| | Holy Week, together with Easter, is the most sacred part of the Christian calendar -- the celebration of the death and resurrection Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. | | | It and the other Holy Week festivals are wonderful and unique services by which God's people gather together and celebrate the great paschal mystery -- Jesus Christ's passage from death to life for our salvation. | | | In the earliest days of the Christian church, the event we commemorate in the Triduum were celebrated in one day and night's continuous worship service called the Pascha (from the Greek transliteration of the Hebrew word for "Passover"). |
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http://www.stpaulskingsville.org/holyweek.htm
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| | Ideas for Holy Week |
| | Holy Week is the most solemn time in the Church's calendar. | | | AT ANY TIME during Holy Week, consider using the Litany on the Stations of the Cross that I wrote for Holy Cross Day. | | | Secondly, I encourage the use of the Stations of the Cross during Lent and Holy Week. |
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http://www.members.aol.com/LiturgybyTLW1/Seasonal/Lent/HolyWeek.html
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| | Holy Week |
| | Holy Saturday is also a day of solemn vigil, meditation and prayer. | | | The last week of Jesus' life was filled with many events as we follow him from his glorious entry into Jerusalem on Sunday until his death on Friday. | | | In the Christian calendar Palm Sunday is the beginning of Holy Week. |
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http://www.thenazareneway.com/holy_week/index_holy_week.html
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| | The Liturgical meaning of Holy Week |
| | The Holy Fathers of the Church usually describe this moment as a duel between Christ and Death, Christ and Satan. | | | The double feast of Lazarus' resurrection and the Entrance of the Lord to Jerusalem (Palm Sunday) is described in liturgical texts as the "beginning of the Cross" and is to be understood therefore, within the context of the Holy Week. | | | The history of Israel is now coming to its end, such is the meaning of this event, for the purpose of that history was to announce and to prepare the Kingdom of God, the advent of the Messiah. |
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http://home.it.net.au/~jgrapsas/pages/Holy_Week.htm
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| | Holy Week - Orthodox |
| | On Holy Wednesday afternoon the Orthodox Church administers the Mystery of the Holy Unction for the bodily and spiritual health of the participants. | | | Holy and Great Saturday is a reverent vigil at the tomb of the Son of God, slain for our sins. | | | AS WE APPROACH the solemn days of Holy Week, we bring to mind how our Lord Jesus Christ was betrayed and seized, tortured and crucified, died and was buried, and arose from the dead. |
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http://holytrinity.ok.goarch.org/holy_week.html
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| | Semana Santa Holy Week |
| | The carpets in the churches are made for the holy vigils (velaciones) and are made by the brotherhoods (hermandades). | | | Antigua is famous for its Catholic celebration of Holy Week, which commemorates the Passion, Crucifixion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. | | | Velaciones are held in the churches that have religious activities during the holiday. |
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http://www.questconnect.org/guat_semana_santa.htm
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| | They Call It Holy Week (Lutheran Ministries - Partners Magazine) |
| | This week is holy because the focus is on Jesus. | | | My students study the prayer, "Hallowed [Holy] be Thy Name," with this explanation, "God's name is certainly holy in itself, but we pray in this petition that it may be kept holy among us also." Holy Week is holy all by itself. | | | While we don’t make this week holy, I am convinced we can pass over these sacred days with little or no contact with holiness. |
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http://www.lutheranok.com/partners/2004/0404.htm
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| | THE HISTORY OF PASSIONTIDE AND HOLY WEEK AFTER having proposed the forty-days' fast of Jesus in the desert to the meditation of the faithful during the first four weeks of Lent, the holy Church gives the two weeks which still remain before Easter to the commemoration of the Passion. | | | Another of the ancient practices of Holy Week were the long hours spent, during the night, in the churches. | | | The second week, on the contrary, furnishes us with abundant historical details; for there is Do portion of the liturgical year which has interested the Christian world so much as this, or which has given rise to such fervent manifestations of piety. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/LITURGY/HISTHW.TXT
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| | Passiontide & Holy Week |
| | Holy Week, it was decreed, was to be spent in contemplation and meditation and the faithful were be free from worldly concerns as much as possible. | | | According to the account of a fifth-century Spanish pilgrim to the Holy Land, Passion Sunday Mass was celebrated in Jerusalem at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. | | | Through His Grace we must try to become holy, "perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is perfect." This is why the Church calls all her people, especially at this time of year, to the Sacrament of Penance, to perform their Easter Duty. |
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http://www.wf-f.org/Passiontide.html
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| | HTC: Holy Week and Pascha |
| | Holy Saturday evening gives witness of the faithful gathering in church to participate in the feast of feasts, Pascha, the Resurrection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. | | | The week before Pascha in the Orthodox Church, called Great and Holy Week, is set apart in the ecclesiastical year, so that we might stop and change our pace, meditate upon and relive the last week in our Lord's life which opened the doors of paradise. | | | The faithful are called to be joined to the mystical body of Christ and thus receive the saving benefits of His life and live as citizens of His kingdom. |
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http://www.holy-trinity.org/feasts/holyweek.html
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| | Holy Week and Pascha |
| | It has been prepared in the hope of enhancing the Holy Week experience for all of God's faithful. | | | The following is an explanation of the services of Great and Holy Week as celebrated in the Greek Orthodox Church. | | | The English translation of the Hymns have been taken from the book entitled: "The Service for Holy Week and Easter" which is available through Narthex Press (P.O. Box 280758, Northridge, CA 91328-0758). |
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http://www.saintbarbara.org/faith/holyweek/index.cfm
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| | Holy Week |
| | Holy Week, Passion of Christ, Commemoration of the, Passion of Jesus Christ, Passion of Jesus Christ in the Four Gospels from the Catholic Encyclopedia. | | | Ideas and Liturgies for Holy Week, Rev. Thomas L. Weitzel, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. | | | Holy Week, at Ken Collins Web Site: Holy Days and Holidays. |
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http://www.textweek.com/holyweek.htm
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| | Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday |
| | John places it firmly in Holy Week, with Mary, the sister of Martha and of Lazarus, as the woman. | | | Mark includes the story in Holy Week, two days before the Feast of the Passover, but Mark says it took place at the home of Simon, the leper, and he does not name the woman. | | | The last week of Jesus' life was crammed with events, as we follow him from his glorious entry into Jerusalem on Sunday until his death on Friday. |
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http://www.sundayschoollessons.com/palmsun.htm
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| | Semana Santa (Easter) |
| | The history of the present day traditions of Holy Week in Sevilla has its origins as early as 1248 when King Fernando III reclaimed Sevilla from the Moors. | | | Sevilla is known as the "cradle" of these processions and is by far the most spectacular example of Holy Week in Spain. | | | Hermandades had been formed during the reconquest to rescue injured soldiers from the battlefields and to bury the dead. |
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http://www.auburn.edu/~jfdrake/teachers/gould/easter.html
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| | Holy Week Home Page |
| | Holy Week is an important time and place in the spiritual journeys of Christians. | | | May we find the strength and joy that is necessary to live the mysteries of Holy Week every day of our lives. | | | As we practice the works of mercy and justice and peace (both corporal and spiritual), we grow in our understanding of the spiritual dimensions of this apostolate. |
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http://www.justpeace.org/hlywk.htm
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| | Holy Week Photo Album |
| | Orthodox Pilgrims in Bethany for the Holy Week pilgrimage. | | | Known to the Orthodox as the Church of the Resurrection. | | | The fire is passed to the worshipers waiting outside the church. |
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http://www.willamette.edu/cla/wviews/mideast/holyweek.htm
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| | Holy Week |
| | It is certainly true of this week when we enter into the very heart of the tremendous conflicts which center around our Lord's passion and death and his resurrection on the third day. | | | There doesn't seem to be much time for that during Holy Week, especially for those of us who are involved in the liturgy. | | | It is the practice here for all the people to come forth one by one, the faithful as well as the catechumens, to bow down before the table, kiss the holy wood, and then move on. |
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http://www.anglocatholicsocialism.org/holyweek.html
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| | Holy Week |
| | In Christian life it is a week of devout observance, commemorating the Passion and Jesus' death on the cross. | | | Holy Week focus: Film highlights spirituality of Valley communities' lives. | | | In the Roman Catholic Church these rise to a climax with the vigil of the Resurrection on the evening of Holy Saturday. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0824033.html
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| | Holy Week: children and their families share |
| | Holy Week, with its many rites and symbols, is a good time to acquaint children with the great mysteries of Jesus' death and resurrection. | | | The gospels about Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead and giving sight to the man born blind, which announce Holy Week, can remind them that Jesus has power to bring life from death and light from darkness. | | | It's helpful to tell them the story of the passion and resurrection together, so they will see his suffering, but then see him rising in triumph from the dead |
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http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/child/lent/holywk
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| | Father Pat's Place : : : Holy Week |
| | The Sacred Chrism is used to anoint the Baptized, those who are Confirmed, Priests and Deacons at their Ordination, and Churches and Altars at the time of their Consecration. | | | At the end of the Mass of the Lord's Supper the Holy Eucharist is solemnly transferred to the Eucharist chapel where Eucharistic adoration continues until midnight. | | | The Eucharist consecrated on Holy Thursday night is the Eucharist received as the Faithful gather for |
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http://frpat.com/holyweek.htm
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| | The Holy Season Of Lent |
| | Father, by the power of the Holy Spirit you anointed your only Son Messiah and Lord of creation; you have given us a share in his consecration to priestly service in your Church. | | | Help us to be faithful witnesses in the world to the salvation Christ won for all mankind. | | | We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/faith/lent/A1.htm
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| | Holy Week at Holy Cross |
| | And now at the vigil, it is dark, very early in the morning on the first day of the week, as you dare to approach the tomb. | | | Most of the Holy Week action happens during the “Paschal Triduum,&; or the three days before Easter: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday. | | | At Holy Cross we have at least one (important) service on each of these days. |
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http://www.holycrossredmond.org/think/dear_ms_p_18.htm
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| | Holy Week tips and ideas from Faith at Home |
| | Barbara Laufersweiler is an at-home mom, an Episcopalian, and the creator of Faith at Home, http://www.faith-at-home.com/, a Web site offering help to parents as they explore and enjoy faith with their children. | | | There is an activity for each day of Holy Week, or you can choose just one or two of these simple yet powerful ideas. | | | Easter Day is the most important day of the church year, and the 50 days that follow are a wonderful opportunity to explore and celebrate Easter more fully than we can possibly squeeze into a single day. |
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http://www.faith-at-home.com/tips/holy-week.html
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| | SEMANA SANTA IN CYBERSPAIN |
| | Years ago, it used to be done in front of the houses of those who lived in sin, to drive them to repent and remit of their sinful lifestyle. | | | Medina of the Rioseco (Valladolid): Here the Nazarene Christ of the Holy Cross is venerated, one which pasos is called the "Cornudo" (the horned one), because it was presided by a soldier blowing a horn through the streets. | | | Now we are on the realm of the sense, and unless you have experienced it, we could be filling the net with words that would not clearly, fully or completely express the whole meaning of this word. |
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http://www.cyberspain.com/life/ssanta.htm
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| | Holy Week - Apostle's Playhouse |
| | During this rotation we are learning about Holy Week which is the week before Easter Sunday (when Jesus rose from the dead). | | | Matthew wrote about what happened to Jesus during Holy Week and we can read what he wrote in the Bible. | | | Jesus chose to be an obedient disciple of God. |
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http://www.kirkofkildaire.org/quest/FQlessons/HolyWeekApostlesPlayhouse.htm
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| | Holy Saturday - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | In the descending hierarchy of Holy Saturday foods, ham hocks were at the bottom. | | | The evidence was especially clear on that particular Saturday, when we sold hundreds of hams to deserving Christians, and four ham hocks to an Indian squaw and her pickup load of drunks. | | | On Holy Saturday she carried four ham hocks. |
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http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2000/116/44.0.html
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| | Holy Week |
| | There is no need for the Holy Ghost to come down, to make the Body of the Son, and touch the Father's Heart, for to-day all the world is Calvary. | | | Now on Holy Saturday the Catholic Church is in just such a mood as that. | | | There, in Italy, the morning struck the key of the day; the world was alive there, and as good as God made it, and everything was in His hand. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~duitvlug/benson/papopar/papopar7.html
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| | Holy Week |
| | In her liturgical celebrations during Holy Week the Church commemorates and represents these mysteries in a distinguished way and invites us to unite ourselves more closely to Christ and to relive the last days of his life on earth. | | | This is the message of Holy Thursday night. | | | After the events in the upper room Our Lord went to pray in the garden that God's will be done. |
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http://www.st-therese-church.com/holy_week.htm
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| | THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN HOLY WEEK |
| | This is an audiovisual presentation by GAEPIS of the Orthodox Christian Holy Week. | | | The audio portion of this presentation includes traditional Byzantine hymns from the Holy Week Hymns CD. | | | We hope you will enjoy the traditional Byzantine hymns in audio, while reading the informative text and viewing some of the most beautiful Byzantine icons. |
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http://www.gaepis.org/audio/p/hweek
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| | It Takes A Church...: Skipping Holy Week… |
| | I am still indifferent to Holy Week and Christmas as a religious observance. | | | The Holy Observer - God's #1 Source for Christian News | | | Yet I heard a sermon that focused on the journey of the week - the focus lead to us being people who will shout 'crusify him.' While true and necessary, this sermon pushed the whole congregation away from the celebration of Palm Sunday. |
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http://bolsinger.blogs.com/weblog/2005/03/skipping_holy_w.html
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| | Catholic Culture : Liturgical Year : April 06, 2004 : Tuesday of Holy Week |
| | In Rome, the Station for today is in the church of St. Prisca, which is said to have been the house of Aquila and his wife Prisca, to whom St. Paul sends his salutations in his Epistle to the Romans. | | | Father, may we receive your forgiveness and mercy as we celebrate the passion and death of the Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. | | | » Prayer for Palm Sunday and Holy Week |
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http://www.catholicculture.org/lit/calendar/day.cfm?date=2004-04-06
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| | Easter -Holy Week |
| | One of the most important is Holy Week "Semana Santa". | | | In this picture you see the view of a religious procession. | | | On this page I have included some exercises and activities for you to get to know better our tradional Holy Week. |
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http://www.isabelperez.com/easter.htm
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