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Holy Week. The entry of Jesus and his disciples into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday marks the beginning of Holy Week, is the last week of Lent, between Palm Sunday and the dusk of Maundy Thursday. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Palm Sunday along with the Saturday of Lazarus marks the two-day transition between the 40 days of Great Lent and Holy Week.
Megillat Taanit. Megillat Taanit (Hebrew: מגילת תענית ), lit. "the Scroll of Fasting," is an ancient text, in the form of a chronicle, which enumerates 35 eventful days on which the Jewish nation either performed glorious deeds or witnessed joyful events. Despite the name of the scroll, these days were celebrated as feast-days.
A chronology of Jesus aims to establish a timeline for the events of the life of Jesus. Scholars have correlated Jewish and Greco-Roman documents and astronomical calendars with the New Testament accounts to estimate dates for the major events in Jesus's life. Two main approaches have been used to estimate the year of the birth of Jesus: one ...
The Passion (from Latin patior, "to suffer, bear, endure") [1] is the short final period before the death of Jesus, described in the four canonical gospels. It is commemorated in Christianity every year during Holy Week. [2] The Passion may include, among other events, Jesus's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, his cleansing of the Temple, his ...
v. t. e. The liturgical year, also called the church year, Christian year, ecclesiastical calendar, or kalendar, [1][2] consists of the cycle of liturgical days and seasons that determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of scripture are to be read.
Seder Olam Rabbah (Hebrew: סדר עולם רבה, "The Great Order of the World") is a 2nd-century CE Hebrew language chronology detailing the dates of biblical events from creation to Alexander the Great's conquest of Persia.
The Syro-Malabar Church proposes the following days of fasting to the faithful: [4][5] Name. Dates. 25 Days' Lent. December 1–24. Three Days' Lent. The third Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday before the beginning of Lent. Great Lent. The first Monday of Lent through Holy Saturday.
A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes place during Holy Week in Christian countries, especially those with a Catholic culture. Various images of the saints, especially the Virgin Mary, and most importantly the image of the crucified Christ are carried aloft by foot on shoulder-borne pasos (or on ...