Holy Week procession!

[StaceyJo]

Holy Week is the Christian week from Palm Sunday through Holy Saturday.

Each of the days of Holy Week has its own traditions of services in the West. Believers are encouraged to follow in their prayers with readings from the Gospel the account of each of the actions from the time of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday to the crucifixion and death of Jesus on Good Friday and the resurrection on Easter Sunday.

While each day has special mass celebrations in the Western churches, the week's most elaborate services are on Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter. In the Reformation, emphasis was taken away from the Passion and placed upon the resurrection of Jesus, but contemporary Protestant Churches, as well as the Roman Catholic Church, holds the three days between Good Friday and Easter to be the holiest days of the calendar.

Holy Week (Sp. Semana Santa) processions are Christian (specifically Catholic) religious ceremonies traditionally held in several Catholic countries. They consist in the marching of cofradias and hermandades, and the displaying of pasos, elaborate sculptures depicting the most important events in the life of Jesus from the day he arrived in Jerusalem until his resurrection as told by the Bible.

The processions are distributed into 5 days, recognized by the Church as:

* Palm Sunday: The day when Jesus arrived in Jerusalem.
* Maundy Thursday: The day when Jesus gave Last Supper, followed by the beginning of his passion.
* Good Friday: Jesus' crucifixion, performed in 14 stations.
* Holy Saturday: Loneliness of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
* Easter Sunday: The resurrection of the Christ.


Here the pics that shows the crucifixion of Jesus Christ literally re-enacted in bloody spectacles in the provinces last Good Friday.

This is how Christ died...






see more pics here...