Holy Monday
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Holy Monday | |
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Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem | |
Also called | Great and Holy Monday |
Observed by | Christians |
Type | Christian |
Observances | Mass |
Date | Monday before Easter |
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Frequency | annual |
Related to | Holy Week |
Holy Monday or Great and Holy Monday (also Holy and Great Monday) (
It is the third day of Holy Week in Eastern Christianity, after Lazarus Saturday and Palm Sunday, and the second day of Holy Week in Western Christianity, after Palm Sunday.
Biblical narrative
The
Western Christianity
In the
In the
In traditional Methodist usage, The Book of Worship for Church and Home (1965) provides the following Collect for Holy Monday:[3]
Grant, we beseech thee, almighty God, that we, who are in so many occasions of adversity, by reason of or frailty are found wanting, may yet, through the passion and intercession of thine only begotten Son, be continually refreshed; who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.[3]
Eastern Christianity
In the
The day begins liturgically with
is chanted.The Matins service for Monday through Wednesday of Holy Week is known as the Bridegroom Service[5] or Bridegroom Prayer in the Greek Orthodox Church, because of their theme of Christ as the Bridegroom of the Church, a theme expressed in the troparion that is solemnly chanted near the beginning of the service.
On these days, an
The four
- Holy and Great Monday
- Third Hour—The first half of Matthew
- Sixth Hour—The second half of Matthew
- Ninth Hour—The first half of Mark
At the Sixth Hour there is a reading from the Book of Ezekiel 1:1–20
At the
References
- ISBN 9780814635100.
The Revised Common Lectionary has been subsequently adopted by many English-speaking Protestant denominations such as the Church of Scotland and various Methodist, Lutheran and Reformed Churches. It has also been adopted by some Old Catholic Churches and is widely used throughout the Anglican Communion, for example by the Church of Ireland, Scottish Episcopal Church, Church in Wales the Episcopal Church (USA) and the Anglican Churches of Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand and Polynesia, Melanesia, the West Indies, Central Africa, and Southern Africa. In the Church of England the two-year Sunday Lectionary of the Alternative Service Book 1980 was replaced in 2000 by an adapted version of the Revised Common Lectionary in Common Worship.
- ^ "Year A - Holy Week : Revised Common Lectionary". Vanderbilt University Divinity School. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ a b The Book of Worship for Church and Home: With Orders of Worship, Services for the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Aids to Worship According to the Usages of the Methodist Church. Methodist Publishing House. 1964. p. 101. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ ISBN 978-1878997517.
- ^ "Holy Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday: Services of the Bridegroom". Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. Retrieved April 11, 2022.
- ^ Kallistos 1978, p. 518.
External links
- Great and Holy Monday Orthodox synaxarion
- Scriptural Reading for the Monday of Holy Week Archived 2008-03-02 at the Office of Readings(Roman Catholic)
- Monday in Holy Week Online liturgical resources