Holy week is about to come and most people have plan activities on how to spend it. How would you celebrate it?
Define “most.”
I think my wife has a relative who might go to church on Easter. That’s about it. I no longer have kids expecting baskets of candy so I have no plans.
WTF is “Holy Week”? Is it like “Shark Week”?
FTR, I’m celebrating the first night of Passover on April 6th.
Crucifixion Week! :eek:
Our festivities get underway with Palm Sunday, with the waving of palm fronds and a long-long-long Gospel. In the parish where I grew up, we used to have a Passover meal on Thursday, where I developed my love for lamb, matzos and the Jewish faith. 
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On Palm Sunday I’m going to a Catholic mass in memory of my aunt who just passed. Easter Sunday I’m going to my grandparents’ for dinner.
I usually go to my Lutheran church for Good Friday because it’s an awesome service - it’s a funeral for Jesus with the lights getting turned off and slamming of the Bible and stuff. Really moving. But my mom just quit the church and I don’t want to go alone (I can’t be arsed, really).
So I guess that’s about it for my Holy Week.
“Holy WEEK, Batman!”
“Thanks for the reminder, Robin.”
Singing, singing, and more singing, at the place where I’m one of the choral leaders, including an interminable set of responses for Holy Saturday that I get to sing all of, whee. At least I get paid for it…
My mother-in-law suggested we visit my sister-in-law (which we’ve been meaning to do for months now, it’s totally awful that we haven’t gotten up there yet, I agree) for Easter, and I said, “At this point, I expect the only excuse the choral director would accept for missing Easter were if I were actually dead.”
I’m looking forward to its end, when all the candy in the supermarket goes on sale.
Isn’t this Holy Week about a group of religious member (Church) who try 2 trick u into believing that sex before marriage is a sin and that u are gonna go 2 hell for not paying tithes?
My husband sings in the choir, so he will go to rehearsal and Mass on Sunday, rehearsal on Tuesday, then services on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. I will go to church on Saturday, then Thursday and Easter Sunday. I will stop in at church each day, but not necessarily for a Mass or service.
We won’t see our daughter until later in the week, so the basket and Easter gifts will have to wait until then.
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Hey, Y: Here at the SDMB people are frequently asked to back up what they say with cites. Please provide a cite that the Roman Catholic Church, or any other denomination involved with “Holy Week” (or a similar practice with a different name) demands tithes with punishment of hellfire upon failure to do so.
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Using the extended weekend to get together with my roleplaying group and playing, as is traditional and proper.
My Holy Week activities start Saturday morning, with one hour of bell choir rehearsal, and two of choir rehearsal.
Sunday I sing and ring at three consecutive services.
Wednesday I rehearse one more time.
Friday I sing at one service.
Sunday, I sing at three services again.
(in between, I spend 48 hours at work, and probably will get to work on Easter as well. Sigh. The joys of working retail . . . )
Limited indulgence in Easter Candy is planned.
no eggs, no far off family involvement.
I’ll probably see if I can find a good deal on eggs, and boil some up, because we love hardboiled eggs and deviled eggs. And I have threatened to make an Easter basket for my husband, and fill it with Reese’s Pieces and peanut butter cups, because he hates candy with peanut butter in it. In reality, I will find the girliest, pink-and-purplest basket ever, and fill it with roasted salted peanuts, which he loves, and which he is allowed to eat. Then I will reclaim the basket.
As an atheist, that’s about as observant as I get.
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I’m the cantor at one of our Palm Sunday Masses. The next event would be Holy Thursday, an evening Mass (washing feet, strip the altar, procession to Altar of Repose, Pange Lingua). Then Good Friday, a midday service. Lots of kneeling. Then the Easter Vigil on Saturday night, a very very long Mass. Then Easter Sunday morning Mass (which I am obliged to do even though the Vigil is equivalent, because I am a choir member and we sing at all of the above). Then, of course, a Passover seder at my mom and dad’s.
Okay, not of course, but my extended family happens to contain three observant Jews , two observant Catholics, some agnostics, a couple of atheists, a few Buddhists, and a couple of Wicca practitioners. Going to be a great seder.
When my daughter was growing up I also did up a Lenten home altar and transformed it into an Easter home altar when I got home from the Vigil around midnight. We also made a few dozen Ukranian pysanky eggs to give away at the Vigil. They are wonderful fun to make if you are an arty type. We stole this craft from the Ukranians, along with their custom of giving away the eggs at Easter, saying “Christ is risen!”, to which one should respond “He is risen indeed, Alleluia!” and then you each have a shot of vodka to celebrate, although this latter piece of the custom I could never get started at my church.
And I made her an Easter basket too, decorated with moss and tiny spring flowers and ferns. Wow, I must have had a lot of energy. Now I just go to church and sing.
I plan on spending Easter Sunday watching zombies like I do every year. 
If only someone had the balls to make a zombie movie that took place at Easter.
I’m going to Pax East on Saturday, then spending Easter with my family. Since I typically have Mondays off but try to get up early anyway, I’ll probably be looking for half-price Cadbury eggs on Monday.