Holy water is also removed from the fonts in churches on Good Friday and ... which is Latin for “three days.” Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church ...

In Holy Week, the days just before Easter ... holy water is removed from the church’s fonts and the sacraments are not celebrated until the Easter vigil. Like the first Christians bereft ...

It's part of Holy Week, which leads up to Easter Sunday ... will symbolically clear the altar and empty holy water fonts ahead of the Easter Vigil. During Lent and especially on Good Friday ...