Holy 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 Day, which begins the season of Eastertide, is not. Although, traditions...
The path to Pascha begins on Lazarus Saturday. On Palm Sunday in the morning Liturgy, all the faithful take to the church olive branches in remembrance of the olive branches carried by the crowd of Jerusalem during Christ's welcome to the city.
•Dyed Eggs- You can't have Easter without eating at least a couple of hard-boiled eggs.
The Christian festival of Easter is celebrated in Latvia as Lieldienas. Lieldienas enters Holy Week with Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday, but Sunday will mark first Lieldienas. Second Lieldienas is on Monday of the following week. Each day has a special significance. Also, many pagan elements of celebrating Lieldienas...
Easter celebrations begin with the Lent, "Quaresma". Lent starts with Ash Wednesday, the dayafter Carnival, and lastsapproximately 6 weeks celebrating the 40 days Jesus spent in the desert. It includes The Stations of the Cross, a celebration of Jesus carrying the Cross and Jesus Crucifixion, Passion Sunday, "Domingo de Passos", and Palm Sunday,...
It is 9 days long. We celebrate the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. It starts with Palm Sunday commemorating the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday is celebrated by the blessing and distribution of palm branches representing the palm branches the crowd scattered in front of Christ as he rode into...
