"Lent in the traditional calendar, which was ""Passion Sunday"". In the Church of Pakistan (a member of the Anglican Communion), the faithful on Palm Sunday carry palm branches into the church as they sing Psalm 24. In many Protestant churches, children are given palms, and then walk in procession around the inside of the church . In traditional usage of the Methodist Church, ""The Book of Worship for Church and Home"" (1965) provides the following Collect for Palm Sunday: In Spanish, it is sometimes called ""Pascua florida"", and it was from this day in 1512 that the state of Florida"
"Palm Sunday Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. In Catholic, Episcopal, and other denominations, and in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, worship services on Palm Sunday include a procession of the faithful carrying palms, representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Jesus as he rode into Jerusalem. The difficulty of procuring palms in unfavorable climates led to their substitution with branches of native trees, including box, olive, willow, and yew. The Sunday"
"Friday before Palm Sunday. By a Decree of 22 April 1727, Pope Benedict XIII extended it to the entire Latin Church, under the title ""Septem dolorum B.M.V."". In 1954, it still held the rank of major double (slightly lower than the rank of the September feast) in the General Roman Calendar. Pope John XXIII's 1960 Code of Rubrics reduced it to the level of a commemoration. In 1668 a second, separate feast was granted to the Servites, for the third Sunday in September. Its object of the seven dolours of Mary. By inserting the feast into the General Roman Calendar"
"called Passion Sunday, has the official name of the First Sunday in Passiontide, and Palm Sunday has the additional name of the Second Sunday in Passiontide. In Sunday and ferial Masses (but not on feasts celebrated in the first of these two weeks) the Gloria Patri is omitted at the Entrance Antiphon and at the Lavabo, as well as in the responds in the Divine Office. In the post-1969 form of the Roman Rite, ""Passion Sunday"" and ""Palm Sunday"" are both names for the Sunday before Easter, officially called ""Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion"". The former Passion Sunday became"
"day before Palm Sunday is Sabbatum in Traditione Symboli. This, the Blessing of the Font, the extra Masses pro Baptizatis in Ecclesiâ Hyemali on Easter Eve and every day of Easter Week, and the name of the first Sunday after Easter ""in albis depositis"", show even more of a lingering memory of the old Easter Baptisms than the similar survivals in the Roman Rite. Holy Week is Hebdomada Authentica. Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Eve, and Easter Day are named as in the Roman Rite. The five Sundays after Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, and Corpus Christi follow, as in"
"Holy Monday Holy Monday or Great and Holy Monday (Greek: ""Μεγάλη Δευτέρα"", ""Megale Deutera"") is the Monday of Holy Week, which is the week before Easter. It is the third day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity, after Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, and the second day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday. The Gospels tell us of some of the events that actually occurred on the day of the Biblical Holy Monday. Some of the most notable and recognizable of these were the cursing of the fig tree (, ), the questioning of Jesus' authority (),"
"the ferial Mass, the Preface for Lent gives way to the Preface of the Cross. In the 1955 Holy Week revisions, Passion Sunday was formally renamed from ""Dominica Passionis"" or ""Dominica de Passione"" (""Sunday of the Passion"") to ""Dominica I Passionis"", ""First Sunday of the Passion"" or ""First Sunday of Passiontide"". Palm Sunday, formerly ""Dominica in Palmis"" (""Sunday in Palms"") became ""Dominica II Passionis seu in Palmis"" (""II Sunday of the Passion or in Palms""). Since the revision of the General Roman Calendar in 1969, the name ""Passiontide"" is no longer used for the last two weeks of Lent, although"
"Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the Easter Triduum may overlap or displace part of Holy Week or Easter itself within that additional liturgical period. Holy"
"with Saint Mary Magdalene for Jesus; therefore the event is markedly similar to a mourning event among the people. Holy Week Holy Week (Latin: ""Hebdomas Sancta"" or ""Hebdomas Maior"", ""Greater Week""; Greek: Ἁγία καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑβδομάς, ""Hagia kai Megale Hebdomas"", ""Holy and Great Week"") in Christianity is the week just before Easter. It is also the last week of Lent, in the West, – Palm Sunday, Holy Wednesday (Spy Wednesday), Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday), Good Friday (Holy Friday), and Holy Saturday – are all included. However, Easter Sunday, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions observing the"
"known as Holy Week, is very special in the Christian tradition. The Sunday before Easter is Palm Sunday, with the Wednesday before Easter being known as Spy Wednesday. The last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday (sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday). Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday are sometimes referred to as the Easter Triduum (Latin for ""Three Days""). Many churches begin celebrating Easter late in the evening of Holy Saturday at a"
"Lazarus Saturday Lazarus Saturday in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy is the day before Palm Sunday to which it is liturgically linked. It celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany, the narrative of which is found in the Gospel of John (). Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday together hold a unique position in the church year, as days of joy and triumph interposed between the penitence of Great Lent and the mourning of Holy Week. During the preceding week the propers in the Lenten Triodion track the sickness and then the death of Lazarus, and Christ's journey from"
"new life – are blessed and distributed to the faithful. Children are often awakened that morning with ritualistic swats of a willow branch. When Christianity came to Lithuania, the plants which sprouted earliest were honored during spring feasts. The name ""Palm Sunday"" is a misnomer; the ""verba"" or ""dwarfed spuce"" is used instead. According to tradition, on the Saturday before Palm Sunday the Lithuanians take special care in choosing and cutting well-formed branches, which the women-folk decorate with flowers. The flowers are meticulously tied onto the branches, making the ""Verba"". In Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria, Palm Sunday (""Shaa'nineh"""
"culminating in the Easter Morning or Easter Sunrise service begun by the Moravians in 1732. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, which may also be known as Passion Sunday in some denominations. Traditionally, Palm Sunday commemorates the Triumphal entry into Jerusalem described in all four canonical gospels. As described in the accounts, Jesus's entry into Jerusalem was noted by the crowds present who shouted praises and waved palm branches. In the Roman Rite, before 1955 it was known simply as Palm Sunday, and the preceding Sunday as Passion Sunday. From 1955 to 1971 it was called Second Sunday in Passiontide"
"before Palm Sunday, Lazarus Saturday, believers often prepare palm fronds by knotting them into crosses in preparation for the procession on Sunday. The hangings and vestments in the church are changed to a festive color – most commonly green. The Troparion of the Feast (a short hymn) indicates that the resurrection of Lazarus is a prefiguration of Jesus's own Resurrection: In the Russian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Ukrainian Catholic Church, Ruthenian Catholic Church, Polish, Bavarian and Austrian Roman Catholics, and various other Eastern European peoples, the custom developed of using pussy willow instead of palm fronds because the latter"
"Shrove Monday Shrove Monday, sometimes known as Collopy Monday, Rose Monday, Merry Monday or Hall Monday, is a Christian observance falling on the Monday before Ash Wednesday every year. A part of the English traditional Shrovetide celebrations of the week before Lent, the Monday precedes Shrove Tuesday. As the Monday before Ash Wednesday, it is part of diverse Carnival celebrations which take place in many parts of the Christian world, from Greece, to Germany, to the Mardi Gras and Carnival of the Americas. The word ""shrove"" is the past tense of the English verb ""shrive"", which means to obtain absolution"
"or Palm Sunday. Among Lutherans and Anglicans, the day is known as the Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday. In many liturgical denominations, to commemorate the Messiah's entry into Jerusalem to accomplish his paschal mystery, it is customary to have a blessing of palm leaves (or other branches, for example olive branches). The blessing ceremony includes the reading of a Gospel account of how Jesus rode into Jerusalem humbly on a donkey, reminiscent of a Davidic victory procession, and how people placed palms on the ground in front of him. Immediately following this great time of celebration over the entrance"
"Holy Saturday Holy Saturday (), the Saturday of Holy Week, also known as Holy and Great Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Black Saturday, Joyous Saturday, or Easter Eve, and called ""Joyous Saturday"" or ""the Saturday of Light"" among Coptic Christians, is the day after Good Friday. It is the day before Easter and the last day of Holy Week in which Christians prepare for Easter. It commemorates the day that Jesus' body lay in the tomb and the Harrowing of Hell. In Eastern Orthodoxy this day, known as Holy and Great Saturday, is also called The Great Sabbath since it is"
"the Passion or Palm Sunday"". In the 1969 revision, Passiontide ceased to be a separate liturgical season and became the Fifth Week of Lent, followed by Holy Week. Until the introduction of the new Harmony of the Gospel ""Readings for Holy Week"" in 1969, English-speaking members of the Moravian Church used the name ""Passion Week"" for Holy Week, a week much more closely associated with the Passion of Christ. Passion Week Passion Week is a name for the week beginning on Passion Sunday, as the Fifth Sunday of Lent was once called in the Roman Rite. However, even before Pope"
"Holy Wednesday In Christianity, Holy Wednesday, also called Spy Wednesday, or Good Wednesday (in Western Christianity), and Holy and Great Wednesday (in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches), is the Wednesday of Holy Week, the week before Easter. It is followed by Maundy Thursday (Holy Thursday). In the New Testament account of Holy Week, after Palm Sunday, the Sanhedrin gathered and plotted to kill Jesus before the feast of Pesach. On the Wednesday before his death, Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the Leper. As he sat at the supper table with his disciples, a woman named"
"by St. Andrew of Crete, St. Cosmas of Maium and St. John Damascene, which are still sung to this day. The Raising of Lazarus is also commemorated on this same Saturday according to the Church Calendar of the Armenian Apostolic Church. Lazarus Saturday Lazarus Saturday in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy is the day before Palm Sunday to which it is liturgically linked. It celebrates the raising of Lazarus of Bethany, the narrative of which is found in the Gospel of John (). Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday together hold a unique position in the church year, as"
"Christians celebrate Jesus' entry into Jerusalem as Palm Sunday, a week before Easter Sunday. According to the Gospels, Jesus was staying at Bethany and Bethphage before entering Jerusalem. states that he was in Bethany six days before the passover. In the synoptic gospels, Jesus sends two disciples ahead to ""the village over against"" them in order to retrieve a donkey (or, in Matthew, two animals: a donkey and a colt) that had been tied up but never ridden, and if questioned, to say that the donkey was needed by the Lord (or Master) but would be returned. Jesus then rode"
"always coincide with the astronomical full moon. The moveable feasts are given below: Septuagesima Sunday (9th Sunday before Easter)<br> Sexagesima Sunday (8th Sunday before Easter)<br> Quinquagesima Sunday (7th Sunday before Easter)<br> Ash Wednesday (Wednesday after Quinquagesima Sunday)<br> Passion Sunday (Sunday 2 weeks before Easter)<br> Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin Mary (Friday after 2nd Sunday before Easter)<br> Palm Sunday (Sunday before Easter)<br> Holy Thursday (Thursday before Easter)<br> Good Friday (Friday before Easter)<br> Holy Saturday (Saturday before Easter)<br> Easter Sunday, the Solemnity of Solemnities, the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ<br> Low Sunday (Sunday after Easter)<br> The Solemnity of"
"Passion"". In Pope John XXIII's revision, not only the Sunday that had previously had the exclusive name of Passion Sunday but also the following Sunday referred in their names to the Passion. The latter became the ""Second Sunday of the Passion or Palm Sunday"" (Dominica II Passionis seu in Palmis). The week beginning on that Sunday continued to have a distinctive name, ""Holy Week"" (""Hebdomada sancta"") (previously, ""Great Week"", ""Hebdomada major"", but referred to in English as Holy Week), and the first days in it were called ""Monday (etc.) of Holy Week"", not ""Monday (etc.) after the Second Sunday of"
"Friday of Sorrows The Friday of Sorrows is a solemn pious remembrance of the sorrowful Blessed Virgin Mary on the Friday before Palm Sunday held in the fifth week of Lent (formerly called ""Passion Week""). In it is called ""Saint Mary in Passiontide"" and sometimes it is traditionally known as ""Our Lady in Passiontide"". In certain Catholic countries, especially in Mexico, Guatemala, Italy, Peru, Brazil, Spain, Malta, Nicaragua and the Philippines, it is seen as the beginning of the Holy Week celebrations and termed as ""Viernes de Dolores"" (Friday of Sorrows). It takes place exactly one week before Good Friday,"
"Laetare Sunday Laetare Sunday () is the fourth Sunday in the season of Lent, in the Western Christian liturgical calendar. Traditionally, this Sunday has been a day of celebration, within the austere period of Lent. This Sunday gets its name from the first few words (""incipit"") of the traditional Latin entrance (Introit) for the Mass of the day. ""Laetare Jerusalem"" (""Rejoice, O Jerusalem"") is Latin from Isaiah 66:10. The term ""Laetare Sunday"" is used by most Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, particularly those with Latin liturgical traditions. The word comes from the Latin ""laetare"", the singular imperative of ""laetari"": ""to"
"into the walls and doors of the temple (1 Kings 6:29). Again at the end of the Bible, people from every nation raise palm branches to honor Jesus (Revelation 7:9). Palm Sunday commemorates the entrance of Jesus into Jerusalem (Matthew 21:1–9), when palm branches were placed in his path, before his arrest on Holy Thursday and his crucifixion on Good Friday. It thus marks the beginning of Holy Week, the final week of Lent. In the Roman Catholic Church, as well as among many Anglican and Lutheran congregations, palm fronds (or in colder climates some kind of substitutes) are blessed"
"entry into Jerusalem may not have been regularly pictured as a triumphal procession in this sense before the 13th century. In ancient Egyptian religion, the palm was carried in funeral processions and represented eternal life. The palm branch later was used as a symbol of Christian martyrs and their spiritual victory or triumph over death. In , the white-clad multitude stand before the throne and Lamb holding palm branches. Palm Sunday, or the ""Entry of the Lord into Jerusalem"" as it may be called in Orthodox Churches, is one of the Twelve Great Feasts of the liturgical year. The day"
"Shrovetide Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Shrovetide starts on Septuagesima Sunday, includes Sexagesima Sunday, Quinquagesima Sunday (commonly called Shrove Sunday), as well as Shrove Monday, and culminates on Shrove Tuesday. One hallmark of Shrovetide is the merrymaking associated with Carnival. On the final day of the season, Shrove Tuesday, many traditional Christians, such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, ""make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what amendments of life or areas of spiritual"
"weeks of the Pre-Lenten Season break are: Shrovetide Shrovetide, also known as the Pre-Lenten Season, is the Christian period of preparation before the beginning of the liturgical season of Lent. Shrovetide starts on Septuagesima Sunday, includes Sexagesima Sunday, Quinquagesima Sunday (commonly called Shrove Sunday), as well as Shrove Monday, and culminates on Shrove Tuesday. One hallmark of Shrovetide is the merrymaking associated with Carnival. On the final day of the season, Shrove Tuesday, many traditional Christians, such as Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Roman Catholics, ""make a special point of self-examination, of considering what wrongs they need to repent, and what"
"Saturday begins. The resurrection of Lazarus is understood as a foreshadowing of the Resurrection of Jesus, and many of the Resurrection hymns normally chanted on Sunday (and which will be replaced the next day with hymns for Palm Sunday) are chanted at Matins on the morning of Lazarus Saturday. Palm Sunday differs from the previous Sundays in that it is one of the Great Feasts of the Orthodox Church. None of the normal Lenten material is chanted on Palm Sunday, and fish, wine and oil are permitted in the trapeza. The blessing of palms (or pussywillow) takes place at Matins"
"of a local patron saint, or for important feast days such as Saint George, which may be combined with the paschal celebration. If it becomes necessary to celebrate a funeral during Bright Week, even this service is radically different, and follows for the most part the format for Paschal Matins, with only a few funeral hymns being chanted. The Sunday which follows Pascha (the Second Sunday ""of"" Pascha) is called ""Thomas Sunday"", because it recounts the appearance of Jesus to the Apostle Thomas eight days after his resurrection (). Thomas Sunday is also called ""Antipascha"" (literally, ""in the place of"
"gate on Palm Sunday, in fulfillment of the Jewish prophecy concerning the Messiah. Some equate it with the Beautiful Gate mentioned in Acts 3. In Arabic, it is known as Bab al-Dhahabi, also written Bab al-Zahabi, meaning ""Golden Gate""; another Arabic name is the Gate of Eternal Life. Additionally, for Muslims each of the two doors of the double gate has its own name: Bab al-Rahma, ""Gate of Mercy"", for the southern one, and Bab al-Taubah, the ""Gate of Repentance"", for the northern one. Similar to Christians, Muslims generally believe this was the gate through which Jesus as Messiah, entered"
"disciples, with Thomas the Apostle present, on the Sunday following his resurrection. A traditional name in English is Low Sunday, perhaps given this name because of the contrast with the high festival of Easter on the preceding Sunday, or the word ""Low"" may be a corruption of Latin ""Laudes"", the first word of a sequence in use in the Sarum Rite. Another name is Quasimodo Sunday, from the first words of the introit in Latin. Easter Week was known as ""ebdomada alba"" (white week) or ""in albis"" (in white), because of the white robes that those who had been baptized"