Tag page - HOLY WEEK 2023

Christendom celebrates Easter Sunday on April 9, the high point of the 40-day Lenten Season that began on Ash Wednesday and the culmination of the Holy Week. Considered as the foundation of the Christian faith, Easter Sunday is the greatest feast that renders complete the mystery of man’s...

Roman Catholics will observe age-old Maundy Thursday Church rites and traditions on April 6. At the Manila Cathedral in Intramuros, Manila, Manila Archbishop Jose Cardinal Advincula will lead the Chrism Mass at 7 a.m. The Chrism Mass is a manifestation of the unity of the priests with their bishop....

Three years after the pandemic was declared, the penitential walk tradition, or Alay Lakad to Antipolo Cathedral will be held again on Maundy Thursday, April 6, this time with some six million devotees expected to join the decades-old Holy Week ritual. The Antipolo Public Information Office...

Christendom will mark Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion on April 2, the first day of the Holy Week.    Churchgoers will wave their palm fronds as the priest makes his way into the altar reminiscent of Jesus Christ’s triumphant entry into Jerusalem astride a donkey on Palm Sunday.    As the...