Responsories for Holy Week of the Lord", referring to the Last Supper). Thus the first nine responsories for Holy Week can appear under titles such as "Feria V – In Coena Domini". When the naming is according to the preceding day, names like "Les neuf répons du mercredi saint" (The nine responsories of Holy Wednesday) can occur (Charpentier). The lessons of the first nocturn of Maundy Thursday are from Lamentations 1:1-14 (1:1–5, 1:6–9 and 1:10–14 respectively). The first responsory for Maundy Thursday sets the scene at Mount Olivet (in monte Oliveti), the episode referred to as the Agony of Christ at Gethsemane. The text
Easter Week Easter Week Easter Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. It follows Holy Week. In the Latin Rite of Catholicism, Anglican and other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week "before" Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular misuse of the term "Easter Saturday" to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the