Importance of holy week

Answer 1

The Holy week from Palm Sunday to Easter Sunday is the most important week to Christians due to the celebration of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, which is the core of Christianity. The theme of the death and resurrection of Christ is so central that it is part of the Nicene Creed as one's profession of Faith recited by many Christians both Catholic and Protestant alike.

On Palm Sunday Jesus had his triumphant entry into the city of Jerusalem on a donkey and shortly afterward he was arrested, crucified on a cross, only to return from the dead on Easter Sunday. The telling of these events are covered in all four Gospels of the New Testament (Mat 21,26-28, Mark 11,14-16, Luke 19,22-24, and John 12,18-20).

Answer 2

Holy Week is the most important week of the Church Year and its significance stems from the events that took place some 2000 years ago.

During this week a series of memorial services, in which we remember the Passion, death, and burial of our Lord, take place.

I think Pope Benedict sums this week up nicely when he said:

"The event of Christ's death and Resurrection [is] the heart of Christianity, principal fulcrum of our faith, powerful lever of our certainty, impetuous wind that sweeps away every fear and indecision, every doubt and human calculation." - October 19, 2006

Answer 3

in The Bible god worked six days and rested on the seventh day that's why god says to keep it holy and its important cause on that day god died and rose again

Holy Week is NOT the week God took to create the Earth, but infact Jesus' last week on Earth. It is important because it reminds Christians that Jesus died for our sins, NOT because God created the Earth. God creating the Earth has NOTHING to do with Holy Week at all!!

Answer 4

Holy Thursday is important because that is the day we remember Jesus at the Last Supper on the night before He died. The Eucharist was instituted at the Last Supper when Jesus "took bread, and when he had given thanks he broke it and gave it to them, saying 'This is my body which is given for you. Do this in remembrance of me.' And likewise the chalice after supper, saying, 'This chalice which is poured out for you is the new covenant in my blood'" (Luke 22:19-20).

Catholics believe that when we receive the Eucharist, we are receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, just as the apostles did at the Last Supper. We believe that the Holy Spirit works through the priest to transform the bread and wine into the Body and Blood. We believe this because first of all, Jesus said "This IS my body" and "This IS my blood," not "This bread symbolizes my body" and "This wine is an analogy for my blood." He also told us to remember Him by doing as He did. Also, in John 6, Jesus said, "I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh. The Jews then disputed among themselves, saying, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?' So Jesus said to them, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you; he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him" (John 6:51-56).

In the Greek language, there are two different words for body - soma and sarx. If you go back to the Greek text of the Bible, the word used for body in the Last Supper accounts is soma. Soma simply means body or flesh. However, in John 6, the term used is not soma, but sarx. The most accurate definition of sarx is flesh, or meat. Also, the word for "eat" in the Greek text is trogon, which means to gnaw or chew. So what Jesus is saying in John 6, is that if we don't gnaw or chew on His physical flesh or the meat of his body, we will not have eternal life. Those are strong words.

Many people have another objection to the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist because they think that we are re-crucifying Christ when it was meant to be one sacrifice. However, Christ is not re-crucified at Mass. It is impossible for Christ to be sacrificed more than once. Therefore, Christ offers Himself as a perpetual sacrifice to the Father. In Hebrews 9, "Moses is described as taking the blood of calves and goats and using it in the purification of the tabernacle (Heb. 9:19--21; see Ex. 24:6--8 for the origins of this). Under the Old Law, a repeated blood sacrifice was necessary for the remission of sins. Under the Christian dispensation, blood (Christ's) is shed only once, but it is continually offered to the Father.

"'But how can that be?' ask Fundamentalists. They have to keep in mind that 'Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever' (Heb. 13:8). What Jesus did in the past is present to God now, and God can make the sacrifice of Calvary present to us at Mass. 'For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes' (1 Cor. 11:26).

"Jesus does not offer himself to God as a bloody, dying sacrifice in the Mass, but as we offer ourselves, a 'living sacrifice' (Rom. 12:1). As this passage indicates, the offering of sacrifice does not require death or the shedding of blood. If it did, we could not offer ourselves as living sacrifices to God. Jesus, having shed his blood once for all on the cross, now offers himself to God in a continual, unbloody manner as a holy, living sacrifice on our behalf" (link added)

Answer 5

I have no idea, because the tradition of Easter is a pagen holiday and should not be ackowledged by true Christians, as per the Holy Bible. The Christian celebration of the Easter holiday dates back to around312 AD when Rome combined Christianinty into the Roman Empire by Constintine. It is really a homiage to the pagen sun god, which is where the Easter sunrise tradtion began. It is also a nod to the goddess of fertility which is where the Easter bunny came into play, rabbits being symbolic of fertility.