Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The week preceding Easter containing Palm Sunday, Spy Wednesday, Holy Thursday and Good Friday.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Eccl.) the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the week before Easter
Examples
“The Holy Week ceremonies which are mixed with the Baptismal service in the two books are not very characteristic.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Christus", and "Synagoga", in the Office of Holy Week probably originated at the same period, and not many centuries later we begin to find the narratives of the Passion in the Four Evangelists copied separately into books of devotion.”
“I don't deny that at times I have been a good deal depressed: about Holy Week and Easter Week was the worst time.”
“Except on Wednesday in Holy Week they have the same Tract, a prayer for forgiveness from Ps. cii and lxxviii.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“First, our Easter and the Holy Week preceding it; secondly, how full my mind has been of Mr. Keble, on his two anniversaries, Holy Thursday and March 29.”
“Charfreitag (Sorrowful Friday) in German, is the English designation of Friday in Holy Week -- that is, the Friday on which the Church keeps the anniversary of the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
“Friday was ordered by Paul IV, and they have remained in its repertoire for Holy Week ever since.”
“But the patriarch celebrates the functions of Holy Week and others at the”
“The Office of the Dead and that of the three last days of Holy Week are simpler, the absolutions, benedictions, and invitatory being omitted, at least for the three last days of Holy Week, since the invitatory is said in the Offices of the Dead.”
“After the Holy Week I shall visit Naples, probably with Mr. Theodore Woolsey, who is now in Rome.”
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