Lent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Lent , in Christian tradition, is the period of the liturgical year leading up to Easter. The traditional purpose of Lent is the preparation of the believer — through prayer, penitence, almsgiving an...
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Holy Week - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Holy Week (Latin: Hebdomada Sancta or Maior Hebdomada , "Greater Week" or Greek: Μεγάλη Εβδομάδα ) in Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. It includes the religious...
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Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday ... While Good Friday is a traditional day of fasting, some also fast on Saturday as the climax of the season of Lent. An ancient tradition dating to the first centuries of the church calls for no food of any kind to be eaten on Holy Saturday, or for 40 hours before sunrise on Sunday.
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The feast of Maundy (or Holy) Thursday solemnly commemorates the institution of the Eucharist and is the oldest of the observances peculiar to Holy Week ... Holy Thursday could not but be a day of liturgical reunion since, in the cycle of movable feasts, it brings around the anniversary of the institution of the Liturgy.
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Holy Week is the week which precedes the great festival of the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, ... On the Thursday the Liturgy was celebrated in the late afternoon, ... St. Augustine informs us that on that day Mass and Communion followed the evening meal or super, and that on this occasion Communion was not received fasting.
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Fasting and Abstinence: ... The liturgy concludes with the distribution of Holy Communion. Since there was no Mass, Hosts that were reserved from the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday are distributed instead.
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The Holy Synod has permitted each eparch to ease the obligations of fasting while, at the some time, exhorting all of the faithful to fast according to the ancient tradition. The minimal obligations for the Eparchy of Newton is the ... The first day of Great Lent and the last three days of Holy Week are days of fasting...
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Letter of the Holy Father To All the Priests of the Church for Holy Thursday 1986 ... 1. Here we are again, about to celebrate Holy Thursday, the day on which Christ Jesus instituted the Eucharist and at the same time our ministerial Priesthood.
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Lent ends officially with the beginning of the Easter Triduum at the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. ... Holy Saturday is an empty time of waiting. No Mass is offered, not even a Communion service like Good Friday’s. It isn’t an official fasting day, but many Catholics eat modestly this day as we...
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www.ncregister.com/info/making_the_most_of_holy_week/
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