In this special tradition, pilgrims adore Christ in seven different altars of repose while praying and reflecting on the passion of Christ. At the end of each Holy Thursday Mass, the priest strips ...

Maundy Thursday ... pay homage to the Holy Eucharist, which, during the evening ceremony, would have been transferred from the main altar to a chapel where an ‘altar of repose’ is set up ...

On Thursday evening and Good Friday morning, in the hours the Holy Eucharist is in this tabernacle on the altar of repose, Christians do a sort of pilgrimage to visit seven churches – in twos or ...

The Altar of Repose in Manila Cathedral, Holy Thursday 2014 (photo: Judgefloro / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0) Kevin Di Camillo Blogs March 21, 2016 One of the all-time greatest devotions in ...

On Holy Thursday ... the sanctuary to an “altar of repose,” and the people go with the Eucharistic Christ in a procession. The transported is sometimes surrounded by decorations of greenery ...

You go and place the candle at the Altar of Repose." He paused. "For me, Holy Thursday is full of theological significance, and this gets you in the mindset of the real reason for the season." ...

at no time is Thomas more prominent than on Holy Thursday night, as the Church in every time and place sings Pange Lingua to accompany the Blessed Sacrament to the altar of repose. Songs reside in ...

Catholics and many Eastern Christians around the world are observing Holy Thursday with solemn liturgies ... known as the ‘altar of repose,’ where believers keep vigil in silent prayer.

Mass 1: Holy Thursday, Spring 1966 ... and carries it—wrapped in a silk blanket—out of the chapel to the altar of repose. We follow him, singing “All Glory, Laud and Honor.” ...

The reverential transfer of the Holy Eucharist to the Altar of Repose was followed by the adoration. Maundy Thursday is followed by Good Friday, the day on which the crucifixion and death of Jesus ...