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Lent in Malta
Easter is one of the most significant events in the religious and social calendar, celebrated heavily in the European country of Malta.
It's a time for families to get together and commemorate Holy Week with traditional food, re-enactments and performances, and religious processions. Those who participate in ceremonial occasions and re-enactments do so with great enthusiasm and consider it the most hallowed event in the Roman Catholic Calendar.
Numerous religious traditions, most of them inherited from one generation to the next, are part of the Paschal celebrations in the Maltese Islands.
Ash Wednesday, which is pronounced as (Ras ir-Randan) is the first day of the penitential period for Holy Week, is commemorated with a Mass, when the Priest would mark the sign of the cross in ash on the forehead of worshippers, translating to grief and mourning for one's sins.
Following the completion of the Mass, a statue of Christ would then be carried out of the churches and villages across Malta and Gozo's islands.
During the Lenten period, the churches' exterior and interiors would be draped in purple or black linen, With all the faces of the statues and paintings will be covered from observance for the penitential season.
Preparations for the solemn Easter festivities commence 40 days before Easter Sunday (L-Għid il-Kbir), following the end of the Carnival celebrations. The older generation will recall that not so many years ago fasting (sawm) on a daily basis was obligatory. Rules in this respect have now been relaxed considerably, and obligatory fasting is now limited to Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. There are also people that do not eat meat and sweets, every Wednesday and Friday throughout these 40 days. Holy week starts during the last week of lent with Palm Sunday, commemorated a week before Easter Sunday.
Lenten sermons (eżerċizzji spiritwali), meant to bring about reconciliation between man and his Creator, are held in all parishes in Malta and Gozo over a number of days, generally in the evenings. The traditional Way of the Cross is another very popular devotion during this period, with the faithful meditating at the fourteen Stations of the Cross (Via Sagra) relating various episodes of the Passion and Crucifixion of Our Lord.[citation needed]
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Lent in Malta
Easter is one of the most significant events in the religious and social calendar, celebrated heavily in the European country of Malta.
It's a time for families to get together and commemorate Holy Week with traditional food, re-enactments and performances, and religious processions. Those who participate in ceremonial occasions and re-enactments do so with great enthusiasm and consider it the most hallowed event in the Roman Catholic Calendar.
Numerous religious traditions, most of them inherited from one generation to the next, are part of the Paschal celebrations in the Maltese Islands.
Ash Wednesday, which is pronounced as (Ras ir-Randan) is the first day of the penitential period for Holy Week, is commemorated with a Mass, when the Priest would mark the sign of the cross in ash on the forehead of worshippers, translating to grief and mourning for one's sins.
Following the completion of the Mass, a statue of Christ would then be carried out of the churches and villages across Malta and Gozo's islands.
During the Lenten period, the churches' exterior and interiors would be draped in purple or black linen, With all the faces of the statues and paintings will be covered from observance for the penitential season.
Preparations for the solemn Easter festivities commence 40 days before Easter Sunday (L-Għid il-Kbir), following the end of the Carnival celebrations. The older generation will recall that not so many years ago fasting (sawm) on a daily basis was obligatory. Rules in this respect have now been relaxed considerably, and obligatory fasting is now limited to Ash Wednesday and Good Friday. There are also people that do not eat meat and sweets, every Wednesday and Friday throughout these 40 days. Holy week starts during the last week of lent with Palm Sunday, commemorated a week before Easter Sunday.
Lenten sermons (eżerċizzji spiritwali), meant to bring about reconciliation between man and his Creator, are held in all parishes in Malta and Gozo over a number of days, generally in the evenings. The traditional Way of the Cross is another very popular devotion during this period, with the faithful meditating at the fourteen Stations of the Cross (Via Sagra) relating various episodes of the Passion and Crucifixion of Our Lord.[citation needed]