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Holy Week—Christianity’s Most Sacred Season

ListenWithin Christianity, Holy Week commemorates the suffering and death of Jesus Christ. Among English-speaking communions, the expression Passion Week is also used to describe the same period of time—the Sunday before Christ's Crucifixion to His Resurrection. One of the earliest designations for this week in the Early Church was the "Great Week," and during the medieval era was known simply as the "Authentic." In Germany and Denmark, the popular title for this week is 'Still Week,' an allusion to the diminished labors of Christ and the Apostles during this week. The Roman Catholic Church,...Read more... Read more... -->

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"...In times of impending calamity and distress; when the liberties of America are imminently endangered by the secret machinations and open assaults of an insidious and vindictive administration, it becomes the indispensable duty of these hitherto free and happy colonies, with true penitence of heart, and the most reverent devotion, publicly to acknowledge the over ruling providence of God; to confess and deplore our offenses against him; and to supplicate his interposition for averting the threatened danger, and prospering our strenuous efforts in the cause of freedom, virtue, and posterity..."

– Congressional Prayer Proclamation

Journals of Congress, 4:208-209.

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