Semana Santa, also known as Holy Week. Holy Week is called “Great and Holy Week”. Holy Week in Christianity is the last week of Lent and the week before Easter. Holy Week of the Christian year is the week immediately preceding Easter. Holy Week begins with what is today called Palm Sunday. The Chrism Mass, the texts of which the Roman Missal now gives under Maundy Thursday, may be brought forward to one of these days, to facilitate the participation of as many of the clergy of the diocese as possible. with the bishop. Where the main services of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil were celebrated in the morning, each day's office of Matins and Lauds was celebrated on the evening of the previous day in the service known as Tenebrae. . The liturgy consists of three parts: the liturgy of the Word, the veneration of the Cross and Holy Communion. On Holy Saturday, the Church waits at the tomb of the Lord in prayer and fasting, meditating on his passion and death and his descent into hell, and awaiting the resurrection. The liturgy begins after sunset on Holy Saturday as crowds gather inside the church. Holy Week has become one of the main symbols of Brazil's community identity, most significant in the southern city of Campanha. Holy Week in Campanha begins on Monday evening with the Deposition Procession. Holy Week in Guatemala includes processions with images of saints carried on wooden platforms. In Amatenango, Judas, who betrayed Christ, was the focal point of Holy Week. Trapani has one of the most elaborate Holy Week processions, larger than anywhere else in the world, in the all-day Processione dei Misteri di Trapani or also known as the Misteri di Trapani. .... middle of paper ......serve Holy Week just as the Catholic Church does. Among Protestant communities, the Moravian Church's Holy Week services are perhaps the most extensive, as the Congregation follows the life of Christ through his final week in daily services devoted to the reading of a harmony stories from the Gospel, in response to the actions of the hymns. , prayers and litanies, beginning on the eve of Palm Sunday and culminating with the "Easter Morning" or Easter sunrise service begun by the Moravians in 1732. Some Protestant churches place great emphasis on the ceremony of washing the feet of Maundy Thursday, for others it may be the only time of year when Holy Communion is celebrated. These Protestants hold more informal celebrations of Holy Week, usually including sermons on the last week of Christ's life, and possibly special services on Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and/or Easter Sunday...