Understanding Holy Week Celebrations
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Holy Week is the annual commemoration of the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth.
therefore, it is a period of intense liturgical activity, that is to say, it is the most intense week of the year
Liturgical.
Holy Week is preceded by Lent, which ends in Passion Week where the celebration takes place.
Eucharist on Holy Thursday, commemorates the Crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on
the Easter Vigil during the night of Holy Saturday to Easter Sunday.
During Holy Week, numerous displays of popular religiosity take place throughout the
world, highlighting the processions and the representations of the passion.
EXPLANATION OF THE CELEBRATION
Holy Week is the most intense liturgical moment of the entire year. However, for many
Catholics have turned it into just an occasion for rest and fun. They forget the essentials: this
We should dedicate the week to prayer and reflection on the mysteries of the Passion and Death of Jesus.
to take advantage of all the blessings that this brings us.
To live Holy Week, we must give God the first place and participate in all the richness of the
celebrations typical of this liturgical season.
Living Holy Week is to accompany Jesus with our prayer, sacrifices, and repentance.
our sins. Attend the Sacrament of Penance in these days to die to sin and rise again
with Christ on Easter.
The important thing about this time is not to remember with sadness what Christ suffered, but to understand why.
He died and resurrected. It is to celebrate and relive his surrender to death out of love for us and the power of his
Resurrection, which is a foretaste of ours.
Holy Week was Christ's last week on earth. His Resurrection reminds us that the
men were created to live eternally with God.
PALM SUNDAY: after a long time of prayer, they arrived
We celebrate the triumphant entry to apprehend it.
from Jesus to Jerusalem in which GOOD FRIDAY:
the whole village praises him as That day we remember the Passion
king with songs and claps. By of Our Lord: His prison,
this, we we take the interrogations of Herod
our palms to the Church and Pilate; the flagellation, the
so that they bless them that day crown of thorns and the
and we participated in the mass. crucifixion. We commemorate it
with a solemn Stations of the Cross and
Holy Thursday: with the ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross.
This day we remember the Last Supper
Dinner of Jesus with his HOLY SATURDAY OR SATURDAY OF GLORY:
apostles in which he washed the It recalls the day that passed between death and the
feet giving us an example of Resurrection of Jesus. It is a day of mourning and
helpfulness. In the Last sadness because we do not have Jesus among us
At dinner, Jesus stayed with us. The images are covered and the tabernacles
we in the bread and in the wine, left us his they are open. At night, a
body and his blood. It is Holy Thursday when Easter vigil to celebrate the Resurrection of
established the Eucharist and the Priesthood. To Jesus. Vigil means 'the afternoon and night'
after finishing the Last Supper, Jesus went to pray at the previous to a party.". In this celebration, it
Olive Orchard. He spent the whole night there and usually bless the water and light the
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candles as a sign of the Resurrection of Christ, the that Jesus conquered death and gave us life.
great feast of the Catholics. This means that Christ gives us the
opportunity to save ourselves, to enter Heaven and
EASTER SUNDAY OR to live always happily in the company of God.
EASTER SUNDAY: Easter is the passage from death to life.
It is the most important and happiest day
for all of us, the Catholics, already
JEWISH PASSOVER
The Jewish people celebrated the Passover in memory of the liberation from the slavery of Egypt.
At the Passover celebration, the Jews would gather to eat roasted lamb and bitter herb salads.
to recite blessings and sing psalms. They toasted for the liberation from slavery. Jesus is the new
Paschal lamb that brings us the new liberation, from sin and death.
SUGGESTIONS FOR LIVING HOLY WEEK
To attend in family or to the rituals and ceremonies specific to Holy Week because the experience
The Christian nature of these mysteries must be communal.
A small representation about Holy Week can be organized.
Set a specific purpose to follow for each of the days of Holy Week.
JESUS' ACTIONS DURING HOLY WEEK:
Palm Sunday: Holy Thursday:
Triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Washing of the feet, the Last Supper,
Holy Monday: Eucaristía, oración de Jesús en el huerto de
Anointing of Jesus at Lazarus' house, Gethsemane. Arrest of Jesus.
Jesus drives out the merchants with whips Good Friday:
from the Temple of Jerusalem. Jesus' prison. The interrogations of
Holy Tuesday: Herod and Pilate. The flogging. The
Jesus anticipates the betrayal to his disciples crown of thorns, crucifixion of Jesus.
of Judas and the denials of Saint Peter. Via Crucis. Burial of Jesus.
Holy Wednesday: Holy Saturday:
Judas Iscariot conspires with the Sanhedrin Easter Vigil.
to betray Jesus for 30 pieces of silver Easter Sunday:
Silver. Easter.
ACTIVITY:
Read and analyze the biblical texts on the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Christ:
Mt 21, 1–10; 26, 17–35; 27, 11–26
Mark 15:23-37
Luke 24:1-12
After having read the texts 5. When Pilate asked the crowd to
biblical responds the following that they requested the release of Barabbas and the
Questions: death of Jesus. What did the people respond?
1. How was the Entry of Jesus to 6. Where was Jesus crucified?
Jerusalem? 7. What does the inscription INRI mean that
2. What words began to shout the Did they put the soldiers on the cross?
crowd that was ahead of Jesus? 8. What words did Jesus say before
3. What words did Jesus say in the last to die?
Dinner? 9. What were those women called?
4. Who did Jesus have compassion on?, What did he who looked from afar at the death of Jesus?
He asked Jesus? And what did Jesus respond?
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10. What novelty did they encounter the
women at the tomb of Jesus?
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Jesus?, What words did those two say?
men to women?