Responsories for Holy Week Maundy Thursday and Good Friday respectively, rather than on a sequence of names referring to Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday respectively. The responsories following each lesson of these matins (so also 27) were usually sung, and these are the Tenebrae Responsoria, or the Responsories for Holy Week. The name of a collection of such responsories may also refer to the Holy Triduum, as in Orlande de Lassus' "". Maundy Thursday is the fifth day of the Holy Week (Latin: Feria V or Feria Quinta). In Latin the feast is also indicated as "In Cœna Domini" ("At the meal
Eight-day week Eight-day week Some historical calendars had "weeks" of eight days. In the Burmese version of Theravada Buddhism, the week has eight days. Wednesday is divided into Wednesday proper (midnight to noon) and Rahu (noon to midnight). Each day is associated with a compass direction, a planet, and a totem animal. The ancient Etruscans developed an eight-day market week known as the nundinum around the 8th or 7th century BC. This was passed on to the Romans no later than the 6th century BC. As Rome expanded, it encountered the seven-day week and for a time attempted to include both. The