Review article
HOLY WEEK IN THE CHURCH ANDFOLK HERITAGE OF SIROKI BRIJEG
Ivana Barać
Abstract
This paper describes a part of Lenten season. Special attention is devoted to Holy Week, which is considered to be the centre of the ecclesiastical and liturgical year. Holy Week is a time filed with three virtues: penance, fasting and prayer, which helped people to prepare for the upcoming time connected with the passion and death of Jesus. Its institutional purpose is heightened in the annual commemoration of Holy Week, marking the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus, which recalls the events from the Bible when Jesus was crucifid on Good Friday and which then culminates in the celebration on Easter Sunday. The paper presents some contemporary original fild notes of prayer songs, traditions and beliefs which are typical of the period from Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday. Special attention is given to the sacred or great Triduum, which highlights the richness of folk and religious customs. As a sign of Jesus’ Last Supper with the Apostles, which is described in the Canonical gospels there is a custom of dining cabbage and a tradition of lighting bonfies in the filds. On Good Friday, there was a custom of drinking red wine and saying prayer songs. According to belief, prayer songs which were said on Good Friday prepared people for salvation and entrance into heaven. Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil or Great Vigil of Easter, a service held in traditional Christian churches as the fist offiial celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus, is the day when Holy Week fiishes. Many of these practices and beliefs are also present today in Western Herzegovina, which speaks of the deep piety of the people and which demonstrates its meaning to modern man.
Keywords
Lent; Holy Week; prayer songs; customs; beliefs
Hrčak ID:
136750
URI
Publication date:
3.2.2015.
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