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The Mass of the Lord's Supper, also known as A Service of Worship for Maundy Thursday, is a Holy Week service celebrated on the evening of Maundy Thursday. [1] [2] It inaugurates the Easter Triduum, [3] and commemorates the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples, more explicitly than other celebrations of the Mass.
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851). Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
The term Mass, also Holy Mass, is commonly used to describe the celebration of the Eucharist in the Latin Church, while the various Eastern Catholic liturgies use terms such as Divine Liturgy, Holy Qurbana, and Badarak, [6] in accordance with each one's tradition.
The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in America, [1] and is purported to be "the world's largest religious media network", [2] (and according to the network itself) reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, [2] with 11 networks.
Most of the texts come from the Octoechos, which has a large collections of hymns for each weekday for each of the eight tones; during great lent and, to a lesser degree, the pre-lenten season, the Lenten Triodion supplements this with hymns for each day of the week for each week of that season, as does the Pentecostarion during the pascal season.
Ash Wednesday is a holy day of prayer and fasting in many Western Christian denominations. It is preceded by Shrove Tuesday and marks the first day of Lent, the six weeks of penitence before Easter.
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday). [1] [2]
Lazarus Saturday, the beginning of Holy Week (8 days before Pascha) Palm Sunday , or the Triumphant Entry of Christ into Jerusalem : last Sunday before Pascha (7 days) Great and Holy Monday : Joseph the All-Comely (from the Old Testament ), who was sold into slavery by his brethren, and the withering of the fig tree (Matthew 21:18-22) [ b ] (6 ...