Holy Week!

Holy Week

Holy Week is the week when Catholics commemorate the death and the resurrection of Jesus. The Holy Week includes, Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. On these days Catholics attend mass and say special prayers. The Holy Week begins on Palm Sunday which follows the last week of Lent.

Setting

What can I hear?

• I can hear people cheering for Jesus.

What can I see?

• I can see a road filled with people who are making way for the king.
• I can also see people holding palms and laying it down for Jesus to walk over on his donkey.

Mood

How do people feel?

• Holy- They are praising Jesus.
• Excited- They are smiling and Singing.
• Passionate- Everyone is happy to be there.
• Homage/Honoured- Everyone was honoured and showed signs of homage by laying palms on the road for Jesus to walk.  

• Palm Sunday commemorates the arrival of Christ before his crucifixion.
• Jesus arrived on donkey to show humility and humbleness.
• The colors for Palm Sunday is Red and White symbolising the blood that Jesus sacrificed for us.
• The Scribes watched Jesus and envy him while he walks across the road on his donkey.

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WALT: identify how Christians celebrate Holy Week.

Holy Week is a sacred and solemn week for christians. Through their liturgical celebrations - people walk with Jesus in each of the events that he suffered during his final week of earth. These liturgies draw us together as followers of Christ. We are drawn as Te Whanau a Te Karaiti into these events (Stations of the Cross) as if each one of us was actually there with all this happening. By being part of activities such as the Station of the Cross we are sharing part of the life and love that Jesus himself gives us at this time.

Holy Thursday

Jesus and his friends gathered together, what we now know was the Last Supper. Jesus gives himself to all those who are gathered at the Supper including his friends. Jesus gives them the Eucharist and tells them, "Do this in memory of me" and blessed the bread. He gives his love in service by the washing of the feet. He tells them to follow the example of loving service and to serve others.

Good Friday

Jesus gives his life in love on the cross. He gives Mother Mary to John as his mother. He reconciled them with God. (Jesus is asking God to forgive them for what he has done). He gives the gift of passing through death to life to God.