Good Friday and Easter are celebrated in Malta in a liturgical and ceremonially prominent manner. On Palm Sunday, one week before Easter, one may assist to the liturgical rites that usher in Holy Week. This rite usually takes place in the main square of the Parish Church in every village and town, including the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Divine Grace in Zabbar.
On Thursday evening and Friday morning, churches have their paintings draped over in purple or black velvet. The Maltese folk turn out in their thousands to visit and pray in seven different churches as traditionally observed.
Recommended: Join the locals and walk up the Laferla Cross Hill in Siggiewi on Thursday 29th March 2018
On Good Friday, late afternoon, some 17 different towns and villages commemorate the Passion of the Christ by an organised and very solemn procession of statues. Each of these statues represents a particular episode in the Passion of the Christ and is carried by pallbearers. Between one statue and another (some ten in all) participants are dressed as biblical characters who take part in the procession in a dignified manner. Many processions include men in penitence bearing a cross and sometimes dragging chains as well tied to their bare feet as penitence.
Good Friday 2019
Good Friday 2019. Good Friday is a Christian religious holiday commemorating the crucifixion
of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary.
The holiday is observed during Holy
Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday,
and may coincide with the Jewish observance of Passover.
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