The Holy Week that celebrates The Catholic Church has between this Thursday and Sunday the most important celebrations of the liturgical year. Although each parish and chapel and each diocese carries out its celebrations, from the archbishopric of Montevideo and Maldonado they shared the times and places of the main celebrations of this Holy Thursday and Friday and Easter Sunday.
This Sunday April 2 began the celebrations with the Palm Sunday in Zabala Square.
Catholic Church of Montevideo
This Thursday it was held in the Montevideo Cathedral at 10 am, presided over by the Cardinal Daniel Sturla, The Chrism Mass in all the priests of Montevideo celebrated having been consecrated to the priesthood and in which the oils with which all the baptisms and confirmations of the year are to be performed were blessed. Then at 8:00 p.m. the celebration of the Lord’s Supper in Farm of Hope. This mass commemorates the last Supper that Jesus had with the apostles.
This Good Friday, there will be two tours with visits to seven churches, a tradition with which it seeks to “accompany” Jesus on the road traveled from the night of his capture until his crucifixion.
In Montevideo there will be two tours. A It will gather at 8:00 a.m. in the Garden of the Virgin in the María Reina de la Paz Parish which is in Bv. Batalle y Ordóñez 2645. The journey will have the following stops:
Catholic Church of Montevideo
On the other hand, a group will leave from the San Francisco Parish in the Old City at 9:00 and will visit churches in the area and in the Center.
Later, that afternoon, at 4:00 p.m. in the Cathedral, the Passion of the Lord will take place, in which the moment in which he died on the Cross is remembered. It is the only day in the year that there is no mass. Then in the same Cathedral there will be a Stations of the Cross, as in many other parishes.
At 7:00 p.m., The traditional Via Crucis will be held on the Hill. under uA slogan inspired by the beatification of the first bishop of Uruguay –”With Jacinto Vera: Missionaries of Hope”– Those who attend Carlos María Ramírez y Grecia are asked to bring “candles or torches.”
Catholic Church of Montevideo
On Holy Saturday at 12:00, the Catholics will gather in the Cathedral for the Loneliness of Maria And there too, but at 20:00 the Pascual Vigil will take place.
Finally Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Easter will be celebrated in the Cathedral during the last day of Holy Week.
Celebrations in Maldonado
Holy Week has already begun to be celebrated throughout the country and Maldonado department is no exception.
In the city of Maldonado, specifically in the Cathedral of San Fernando, These are the activities day by day, according to the poster:
In Punta del Este, in the Sanctuary of Divine Mercy, Father Ignacio Amorós will preside over the celebrations:
In the same spa, but in the San Rafael Chapel, these are the activities:
In addition, there will be celebrations in La Candelaria Parish, also in Punta del Este. The schedule for Easter appears below:
