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Article: Palm Sunday: Let this Holy Week be an opportunity for us to be 'awake' to what is being done, offered, and remembered.(Opinion & Editorial)
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- Manila Bulletin
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- March 16, 2008
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HOLY Week, the most solemn and intense period of worship in the Christian faith, begins with Palm Sunday, the Sunday before Easter. In spite of the spiritual gravity of Holy Week, it begins with joy; for on this Sunday, the Church celebrates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem which foretells the victory of His Resurrection and His return to earth in glory.
"The disciples went and did as Jesus had directed them; they brought the ass and the colt, and put their garments on them, and He sat thereon. Most of the crowd spread their garments on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. And the crowds that went before Him and that followed ...
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Article: Filipino faithful celebrates Holy Week nationwide
Xinhua News Agency;
March 20, 2008 ;
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...Filipino faithful celebrates Holy Week nationwide MANILA, March 20...revisiting the predominantly Christian archipelago's customs and traditions...and death of the Christ this Holy Week, media reports said on Thursday...and the resurrection of the Christ. In the country's capital ...
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