Holy Week in The Catholic Church

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Holy Week in The Catholic Church

• Holy Week is the last week of Lent, the week
  immediately preceding Easter Sunday.  It is
  observed in many Christian churches as a time to
  commemorate and enact the suffering (Passion) and
  death of Jesus through various observances and
  services of worship. While some church traditions
  focus specifically on the events of the last week
  of Jesus life, many of the liturgies symbolize
  larger themes that marked Jesus entire ministry.
  Observances during this week range from daily
  liturgical services in churches to informal
  meetings in homes to participate in a Christian
  version of the Passover Seder.

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• Jesus on the crux

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Easter Triduum

• In Catholic tradition, the conclusion to the
  week is called the Easter Triduum (a triduum is a
  space of three days usually accompanying a church
  festival or holy days that are devoted to special
  prayer and observance). Some liturgical
  traditions, such as Lutherans, simply refer to
  "The Three Days."  The Easter Triduum begins
  Thursday evening of Holy Week with Eucharist and
  concludes with evening prayers Easter Sunday.

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The last Supper
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Palm Sunday and Easter and Holy Week

• It is this dimension that is well served by
  Holy Week observances, as they call us to move
  behind the joyful celebrations of Palm Sunday and
  Easter, and focus on the suffering, humiliation,
  and death that is part of Holy Week. It is
  important to place the hope of the Resurrection,
  the promise of newness and life, against the
  background of death and endings. It is only in
  walking through the shadows and darkness of Holy
  Week and Good Friday, only in realizing the
  horror and magnitude of sin and  it is
  consequences in the world incarnated in the dying
  Jesus on the cross, only in contemplating the
  ending and despair that the disciples felt on
  Holy Saturday, that we can truly understand the
  light and hope of Sunday morning!

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Holy Saturday
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Palm Sunday
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The entire week between Palm Sunday and Holy
Saturday is included in Holy Week, and some
church traditions have daily services during the
week. However, usually only Palm Sunday, Maundy
Thursday, and Good Friday are times of special
observance in most churches.
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Slovenian Easter tradition

• BUTARA PALM SUNDAY
• Slovenes will also decorate their homes with
  colorful palms for the Easter holidays. These are
  known as "butara," a word that literally means
  "bundle." They will often be blessed on Palm
  Sunday, and then placed in the home for the
  holiday.

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BUTARA
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Palm Sunday in Slovenia
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Modern Butara
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EASTER EGGS

• Easter eggs from some Slovenian regions are real
  works of art - for example, Easter eggs from Bela
  Krajina and Remenke from Prekmurje. These are
  among the most beautiful specimens of painted
  eggs in Europe, and they also represent one of
  Slovenia's tourist attractions. Pisanice, as well
  as remenke, are characteristic of Eastern
  Slovenia. Distinctive of it are geometric and
  stylised shapes, while pirhi from the Coastal
  region and Gorenjska mainly reveal vivid
  ornaments copied from nature, in which plants and
  flowers predominate. That is why pisanice from
  Bela Krajina display straight, zigzag and wavy
  lines, crosses, spirals, triangles, hearts,
  circles - and dots, which fill in the empty
  spaces.
• There are various ways of decorating them, and
  again certain regions prefer certain techniques.
  In the southeast and east, as well as at the
  coast, people will put wax on their easter eggs.
  After hollowing out the egg, they use candle wax
  to design a pattern on the shell. (In the
  southeast, they usually make geometric shapes
  lines, circles, dots, etc.) The egg is then
  soaked in red dye for a few hours.

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Pirhi
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PIRHI

• "Pirhi" refers generally to red-coloured eggs,
  although they have different names around
  Slovenia. In Prekmurje they are called
  "rumenice". In Bela Krajina and eastern Štajerska
  they are called "pisanice".
• The making of "pirhi" - decorated Easter eggs -
  is considered one of the most beautiful examples
  of Slovenian folk art. The decoration of eggs has
  for many centuries been a display of popular
  imagination and creativity that is worthy of
  admiration. The infinite variety of patterns
  reflecting different Slovenian regions came about
  unplanned and has been passed on from one
  generation to the next. Slovenian "pirhi" are
  considered to be among the most beautiful
  examples of Easter eggs in Europe.
• The most characteristic technique of making
  "pirhi" in this region is that of batik, which
  involves the use of a wax-filled wooden tool to
  create the desired patterns on the hollowed-out
  eggshell. The wax is kept in a liquid state with
  the help of a candle. The egg is then dipped in
  red dye for at least two hours so as to ensure
  that it is distributed equally. Dye does not take
  hold on the parts where wax has been applied.
  Once dried, another wax pattern is applied and
  the egg is then cooked in black dye. The eggshell
  is then treated in water, which is brought to
  boiling before being extracted carefully and
  dried with a cloth.

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Easter Rabbit - symbol of productiviness to
bringing egg PIRHI.
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Color and symbol

• Easter egg is a symbol of new life, while in
  Christianity it represents Christ's resurrection.
  Most often "pirhi" were red in colour because
  this colour symbolised the drops of Jesus' blood
  on the cross.
• Slovenian Easter eggs will often be dyed using
  natural colors. Dying with tree bark provides a
  brown color, eggs cooked in tea end up in various
  shades of green, Dried blackberries make the eggs
  yellowish-orange, while things like hollyhock,
  logwood, and moss leave the eggs blue. These
  natural dyes take hours to do their work, and
  their intensity can be affected by using
  additional ingredients, like vinegar.

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Color and symbol

• The first eggs must have been red. The red color
  in fact symbolises the sun, energy, blood,
  health, action, success and divinity. The red
  color is also referred to in the folk expression
  pirh, pertaining to the same word family as
  piros, meaning red in the Hungarian language, and
  fire in the Greek language.
• Red is also the color of love, and according to
  Slovenian tradition young men got the most
  beautiful Easter eggs from their girlfriends,
  because "an Easter egg colored red - acknowledges
  the depth of love".

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Color and symbol

• Remenka (yellow egg) is an expression of the
  Prekmurje dialect, where "yellow" also means red.
  The colourings were first of natural origin for
  example, the use of onion skins has remained
  popular until the present times.
• In a later period, these love gifts were
  accompanied by waggish inscriptions on the eggs,
  demonstrating the inventiveness and manual skills
  of Slovenes.

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Make Pisanice
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Pisanice from Bela Krajina
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PISANICE

• "Pisanice" from Bela Krajina are
  characteristically decorated with geometric
  motives - straight and wavy lines, circles,
  triangles and dots. "Pirhi" from other regions of
  Slovenia mostly contain plant motives.
• The oldest preserved Slovenian pisanice are from
  Bela Krajina, a region in the south-eastern part
  of Slovenia. The word pisanica was first
  mentioned already in 1832, originating from the
  word "pisa" meaning a line. In fact, eggs from
  Bela Krajina are not only coloured, they are also
  painted, because the motifs are elaborated with
  the help of a special pencil, the pisalka, which
  is basically a hollow
• stick for applying wax. People from Bela Krajina,
  who have preserved their tradition to the present
  times, decorate eggs with two different
  techniques, which have developed through the
  centuries.

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PISANICE

• The oldest is a technique called batik, for which
  red and black colour are needed as well as wax.
  The mystery of this technique lies in the exact
  order of colouring half of the pattern is
  painted in wax on the egg which has not been
  coloured yet, then the egg is dipped into red
  colour. The other half of the pattern is once
  more applied in wax on the eggshell already
  coloured in red finally the egg is plunged into
  black colour. When the procedure is finished and
  the wax is removed, the egg is tricoloured
  black, red and light brown or white, depending on
  the natural egg colour.

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PISANICE DRSANKE

• The second method, the drsanka technique.
  "Drsanke" are full of field flowers and corncob
  motives. They are drawn with a small knife. The
  colour is removed from the parts where the knife
  is used to draw a line, meaning that the eggs are
  first treated in dye and then carved. The shell
  is then introduced into a container with cooked
  onion leaves. We get the colour by cooking a
  litre of water, a handful of red onion leaves and
  a spoon of apple cider. Some more onion leaves
  are added at the end to increase the intensity of
  the colour. We dip the eggs into the cold dye,
  adding a spoon of cider, which aids the
  absorption process of the dye, and then we heat
  the dye and let it boil for an hour. The
  eggshells are then collected from the dye, dried
  and left to cool.
• The Slovenian family has been involved with this
  folk tradition for over 100 years. This skill of
  Bela Krajina - the styled decoration of Easter
  eggs - has fortunately been passed down from one
  generation to the next. However, it has not only
  been kept in this region, since our family has
  married into households of other regions and
  subsequently took the knowledge with them. They
  can says with great satisfaction that the young
  generations.

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Color and symbol

• They are accompanied by Christian symbols the
  monogram of Christ and Mary (IHS and MARIA) and
  the Cross. Easter eggs from Western Slovenia are
  ornamented with clover, daisy, pine, trees and
  birds.
• These eggs have inscribed wishes, such as Aleluja
  (Alleluia), Vesela velika noc (Happy Easter) or
  Vesel vuzem (the meaning is the same, vuzem is a
  dialect word for Easter).

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POTICA

• A typical Easter meal in Slovenia includes ham,
  horseradish, bread and a special type of nut cake
  called "potica." Easter eggs are also included,
  of course, but will look different depending on
  what part of the country you're enjoying your
  meal.
• Holy Week follows and women get into the full
  swing of Easter they clean up the house, dig
  out horseradish, make potica (rolled cake with
  walnuts, raisins and cottage cheese), cook cured
  ham and eggs.

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POTICA
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SLOVENIAN HOLY WEEK
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HOLY THURSDAY

• To promise of mass repetition in St. Nicolaus in
  Ljubljana

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HOLY THURSDAY- The day for family
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HOLY FRIDAY

• This day is remember Christ death. The start of
  the vigil at symbolic tombs of Christ, which last
  until Holy Saturday. Visits are made to tombs of
  Christ. The adoration of the Good Friday tombs
  is called the visitation of the tombs'.
• The bells are not ringing.

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HOLY FRIDAY

• Jesus slippinng in the tombs

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HOLY SATURDAY

• Many Slovenians take the pirhi to their local
  church to be blessed.
• The art of pirhi On Saturday, women carry
  beautiful baskets (jerbas) with embroidered
  tablecloths and filled with potica (representing
  Christs crown of thorns), horseradish
  (representing the nails in Christs hands) and
  cured ham (representing the body of Christ) to
  church to receive Easter blessing. Each basket
  contains pirhi (decorated Easter eggs), which
  are a symbol of Christs Resurrection, repeatedly
  creation and hope, shelter and security. Usually
  pirhi are red to symbolise the drops of Jesus
  blood on the cross.
• Small baskets (jerbas) with East meal to cary the
  oldest unmarried daughter.
• In my church have a blessing fair for Tree
  fungus, before we to carry home.Holy Saturday on
  20h services accompanied by processions are held
  to commemorate the Resurrection.

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HOLY SATURDAY

• Blessing of faire

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HOLY SATURDAY

• Baskets (jerbas) to be blessed

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HOLY SATURDAY
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EASTER

• Easter procession

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EASTER

• The first Sunday after the first full moon
  following the vernal equinox is Easter Sunday.
• The Easter feast On Saturday evening,
  bonfires are lit on the hills to the great
  delight of children who can stay up late. The
  bonfires signify anticipation of Christs triumph
  over death, which supposedly occurred on the
  third day after his death by crucifixion.
• On Easter morning, families go to their local
  church and join the festive Resurrection
  procession around the church building. Following
  the myrrh-laden festal mass and the singing of
  numerous Hallelujahs, the family gathers around
  the table for the traditional Easter breakfast.
  Blessed food potica, cured ham, horseradish,
  Easter eggs, white bread with raisins and wine
  is served and no one is allowed to be absent from
  the table. Even the animals are given blessed
  bread to eat. Work is strictly forbidden. It is
  only natural that after a day of enjoying such
  heavy delicacies.

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EASTER

• Easter breakfast

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EASTER

• Slovenian Easter meets

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Slovenian traditional Easter egg PIRHI
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EASTER GAMES

• explore ones painting skills - on eggs.

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EASTER MONDAY

• People are allowed to rest on Easter Monday or
  visit their friends and relatives. Today is one
  traditional games, explore ones painting skills
  - on eggs.
• Pirhi are usually given to children by their
  godfathers, but the most beautiful examples are
  given to boys from their sweethearts.

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