Holy Week

Holy Week (also called Holy Week, Holy Week, called Big Week or suffer week) in it's Christian name for the week from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday . These are the last seven days ofLent or Lent .

Content

 * 1 Memorial
 * 2 Layout
 * 2.1 Palm Sunday
 * 2.2 Maundy Thursday
 * 2.3 Good Friday
 * 2.4 Holy Saturday or Easter Saturday
 * 3 Local customs
 * 4 External link

Memorial
In these days until the Solemnity of Easter all events are commemorated at the core of the Christian faith, especially the suffering, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ .

Holy Week and Easter is therefore generally considered the most important liturgical solemnity; though Christmas, at least in the West, celebrated exuberantly by the people. Holy Week is the focus Triduum Sacrumconsisting of the three-day Holy Thursday , Good Friday and Holy Saturday .

Where the Tridentine rite is used, this time passion takes another week longer, because they all week starts earlier reading of the Passion, namely passion Sunday, the Sunday before Palm Sunday .

Classification [ edit ]
Brief description of events per day according to the current interpretation of the biblical data.

Palm Sunday [ edit ]
Nisan, 10 - The entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. On Palm Sunday is by many people with Palm Sunday Twigs waved. The children who give than to old and / or sick people.

Maundy Thursday [ edit ]
Nisan 14 - The Last Supper and prayer in Gethsemane . The betrayal of Judas, resulting in the capture of Jesus Christ.

Good Friday [ edit ]
Nisan 15 - During the night he dragged from court to court. Between eight and nine o'clock in the morning Jesus was crucified between two thieves. Three hours later, the dark on the whole land until three o'clock in the afternoon (Matt. 27:45). Jesus dies. The earth shakes, the veil of the temple torn from top to bottom and some of the dead are raised. He is buried before sunset.

Holy Saturday or Easter Saturday [ edit ]
Nisan 16 - The body of Jesus Christ in the grave, His soul is in paradise.

Local use [ edit ]

 * Spain, in Andalusia, for example, in El Puerto de Santa María , the Holy Week is ( Semana Santa ) associated with many traditions.