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Easter Week
For Christians,
Easter week, also known as Holy Week, it is time to reflect, time of spiritual
contemplation. Is that people fail to do and find himself the time. A kind of
personal purification, going to retreats,
praying in groups, listening to Bible studies, church services, sermons and
conducting charitable activities in your neighborhood.
Although it has
lost some religious, yet many people not only fast, but are inhibited from
speaking until noon on Friday. Decades ago, in the Dominican countryside
practiced silence for a few hours and people retreated to secluded places to be
quiet and reflect.
But religious
beliefs are accompanied by traditional practices of that time of year.
Since Lent starts begin the rites and traditions. Firstly do not eat meat
on Fridays during a period within 40 days prior to the Passion and Death of
Jesus Christ. Friday meal consisting of white rice and stewed pigeon peas, fish and salad.
A distinctly
Dominican ingredient is sweet beans and the Locrians herring or sardines.
But beyond all
this, live Holy Week is to accompany Jesus from entering Jerusalem until his
death and resurrection, think about the lives we lead and proposed change.
On Palm Sunday,
the first day the beginning of the end of Jesus begins, worshipers come to
church with palm branches that are blessed. After the Mass, attendees can take
the branches home and placed somewhere under the belief that they are blessed ;
those who stay in the Church, are incinerated and the ashes of these used the
Ash Wednesday the following year ..
The ceremonies
begin on Palm Sunday with the blessing of the palms and olive branches or
laurel they carry in their hands the Catholic faithful, recalling the biblical
passage referring to this event.
"We celebrate
the holy days in the church, listening to the word of God through the Bible,
commemorating the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we
believe that the foundation of faith is the resurrection of the lamb, because
it showed that it is true what he said. "
At the same time,
said that " we must not only choose one week of the year to commemorate
the sacrifice of Jesus Christ for humanity, but every day , because he is our
savior."
