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Maundy and Thursday
Those who receive Unction on Holy Wednesday should go to Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday.
From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).
The last week of Lent is called Holy Week, and it contains the days of the Easter Triduum, including Maundy Thursday, commemorating Maundy and the Last Supper, as well as Good Friday, commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus.
Since in the modern Hebrew calendar Nisan 15 can never fall on Monday, Wednesday, or Friday, the seder of Nisan 15 never falls on the night of Maundy Thursday.
The last three days before Easter are Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday ( sometimes referred to as Silent Saturday ).
Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively commemorate Jesus ' entry in Jerusalem, the Last Supper and the Crucifixion.
The fight for the Tampere town area began on 28 March, on the eve of Easter 1918 ( later called the " bloody Maundy Thursday "), in the Kalevankangas graveyard.
On Maundy Thursday 817, Louis and his court were crossing a wooden gallery from the cathedral to the palace in Aachen when the gallery collapsed, killing many.
* Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest ; celebrated on Thursday before Easter.
* Maundy Thursday – 3 days before Easter
The Christian feast of Maundy Thursday finds its roots in the Jewish feast of Passover, the night on which the Last Supper is generally thought to have occurred.
The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday.
In Sweden children dress up as witches and go trick-or-treating on Maundy Thursday ( the Thursday before Easter ) while Danish children dress up in various attires and go trick-or-treating on Fastelavn ( or the next day, Shrove Monday ).
Along with these, there are also special services for holy days such as All Saints Day, Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Vigil.
* April 21 – ( Maundy Thursday ) Hernán Cortés reaches San Juan de Ulúa ; next day ( Good Friday ) he sets foot on the beach of present day Veracruz
In the Christian tradition, Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday is the Thursday before Easterthe day on which the Last Supper occurred.
Also known as Sheer Thursday in the United Kingdom, it is traditionally a day of cleaning and giving out Maundy money there.
The Electoral Administration Act 2006 removed Maundy Thursday as an excluded day on the electoral timetable-therefore an election can now be held on Maundy Thursday, prior to this elections were sometimes scheduled on the Tuesday before as an alternative.

Maundy and Good
Moravians hold a Lovefeast on Good Friday as they receive Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday.
It is also sung on Maundy Thursday, during the procession from the church to the place where the Blessed Sacrament is kept until Good Friday.
The liturgy held on the evening of Maundy Thursday initiates the Easter Triduum, the period which commemorates the passion, death, and resurrection of Christ ; this period includes Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and ends on the evening of Easter.
* The town of Newark-Upon-Trent performed its first Passion Play on Maundy Thursday 14 April 2011 and Good Friday 15 April 2011.
It includes the religious holidays of Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday ( Holy Thursday ), Good Friday, and Holy Saturday.
In the predominantly Catholic Philippines, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday are national holidays ; work is suspended in government offices and private businesses.
Royal Maundy () is a religious service in the Church of England held on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday.
The ceremony was not always performed on Maundy Thursday ; it could be postponed a day to Good Friday by royal command, as it was in 1510.
These statues are carried in processions on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Good Friday.
Saint John tells that, in the night between Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Roman soldiers mocked Christ and his Sovereignty by placing a thorny crown on his head ( John 19: 12 ).
It is divided into two semesters with breaks on public holidays such as St. Vaclav ( September 28 ), Independence day ( October 28, two days break ), Velvet Revolution ( November 17 ), Christmas ( 7 – 10 days break ), Spring break ( 1 week break ), Easter ( 3 days break on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Monday ) and finally Labour day ( May 1 ) and Liberation day ( May 8 ).
* Term 1: Begins no earlier than the Tuesday closest to 30 January and no later than 7 February ; ends Maundy Thursday ( day before Good Friday )
Easter Triduum, Holy Triduum, Paschal Triduum, or The Three Days, is the period of three days that begins with the liturgy on the evening of Maundy Thursday ( the vigil of Good Friday ) and ends with evening prayer on Easter Sunday, the three-day period therefore from the evening of Maundy Thursday ( excluding most of Thursday ) to the evening of Resurrection Sunday.
On Maundy Thursday and Good Friday, Maultaschen are a traditional dish in Swabia, because the meat is concealed under the pasta dough and cannot be seen by God.
Tenebrae ( Latin for ' shadows ' or ' darkness ') is a Christian religious service celebrated by the Western Church on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, which are the last three days of Holy Week.

Maundy and Holy
Maundy Thursday ( also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday and Thursday of Mysteries ) is the Christian feast, or holy day, falling on the Thursday before Easter.
Use of the names " Maundy Thursday ", " Holy Thursday ", and the others is not evenly distributed.
The Roman Catholic Church, even in countries where " Maundy Thursday " is the name in civil legislation, uses the name " Holy Thursday " in its official English-language liturgical books.
The United Methodist Church uses the name " Holy Thursday " in its UM Book of Worship, but in other official sources it uses both " Maundy Thursday " and " Holy Thursday ".
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the name for the holy day is, in the Byzantine Rite, " Great and Holy Thursday " or " Holy Thursday ", and in Western Rite Orthodoxy " Maundy Thursday ", " Holy Thursday " or both.
Other names are Hoher, Heiliger, and Weißer Donnerstag ( High, Holy and White Thursday, with " white " referring to the liturgical colour associated with Maundy Thursday ).
The first procession takes place at 3: 30 AM on Holy ( Maundy ) Thursday and involves hundreds of participants dressed in hooded white gowns.
Some Protestant churches make much of the foot washing ceremony on Maundy Thursday, for others it may be the only time in the year when Holy Communion is celebrated, other churches celebrate versions of the Jewish Passover at this time.
By the fourth or fifth century a ceremony had been developed following Holy Communion on Maundy Thursday, in which high Church leaders washed the feet of the poor.
While the institution of the Eucharist is celebrated on Holy ( Maundy ) Thursday, the liturgy on that day also commemorates Christ's New Commandment (" A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another ; as I have loved you.

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