Holy Week or Major Week is the period of time that goes from the last days of Lent and the Easter Triduum of the Passion, Death, Burial and Resurrection of the Lord.
Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, has its center in the Easter Vigil, with the lighting of the Paschal Candle , and ends on Resurrection Sunday.
Holy Week is born from the breakdown of the primitive and unique Christian Easter celebration that took place on the night of Saturday to Easter Sunday. In this celebration the initiation of the new Christians was carried out. A posteriori, the mystery of death and life that this festival encloses was celebrated, and the very hour of the Liturgy, at the moment in which night gave way to day, served as the setting.
After the liberation of the Christians, at the beginning of the 4th century, the Emperor Constantine and his mother Santa Elena built great basilicas or simple hermitages on the places where the most important moments in the life of Jesus had taken place. The pilgrims who arrived in the Holy Land wanted to visit the holy places of the Passion of the Christ . Celebrations were held in these places on the same day and time that they occurred. Thus, Holy Week was born in Jerusalem and the pilgrims spread this use throughout the Churches.
Holy Week is a liturgical reconstruction of the last days of Jesus. On Palm Sunday we remember his entry into Jerusalem. On Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday we commemorate, respectively, the anointing at Bethany, the announcement of Judas' betrayal, and the fact of the betrayal itself. On Holy Thursday the Eucharist is celebrated wanting to relive the atmosphere of the Last Supper and is watched in prayer accompanying Jesus in Gethsemane. Good Friday is dedicated to the mystery of the Cross and the glorious death of Christ. Holy Saturday is the day of silence before the burial of Jesus. Resurrection Sunday , finally, on the holy night that begins it, is the integral celebration of the Paschal Mystery, with particular emphasis on the Lord's triumph over death. This is Holy Week and the Holy Easter Triduum , the culminating point of the entire liturgical year.
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