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Holy Week

NOUN
  1. the week before Easter

How To Use Holy Week In A Sentence

  • Barton suggests that an Anglican bishop finds it in the festal cycle culminating in Holy Week, while the Methodist finds it in preaching.
  • Christian holy week overlaps with the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Passover.
  • He will continue recuperating from breathing problems and concentrate on his plans for holy week, which begins next Sunday.
  • For the first time in 80 years, three of the four processions for the end of Holy Week, Semana Santa, were cancelled, thanks to mad billows blowing over every banner and stanchion and cordon, rain guttering from every rooftop, children's fingers growing waxy. Wind and heavy rain greet Britons who headed for Spanish sun at Easter
  • The next issue will include an examination of the new encyclical, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, issued this past Holy Week, looking with particular interest at what it says about intercommunion between Catholics and other Christians.
  • Thus people fast in Quadragesima Lent as a prayerful preparation for Holy Week, or, at least, that's what they should be doing; many, of course, just do it because that's what they've heard people do during Lent. And it happened in the days of Achashverosh...
  • It's Holy Week, the most important hebdomad in the Christian calendar. Rewards that will be great somewhere
  • The celebrations of Holy Week in many cities and towns of Spain include floats with scenes of the Passion and Death of Christ, and likenesses of the Madonna.
  • The day in question was the Friday in Holy Week, and, as night drew on, drippings were becoming congealed into icicles half an arshin long, and in the snow-stripped ice of the river only the dun hue of the wintry clouds was reflected. Through Russia
  • Thus the hymn appears in the Office of Holy Week, with the Greek words ` Ágios ó theòs, ` ágios ìskhuròs, ` Ágios àthánatos èléeson èmâs expressed in Latinized characters, chosen to represent the Greek pronunciation (e.g. eleison imas for eleéson émas, the aspirate, as in modern Greek, remaining unheard). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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