Show HOLY EK The most signifIcant period of the Christian year is Holy Week the week before Easter Eastel beginning with Palm Sunday which this year falls on March l Palm Sunday celebrates Christs Christ's triumphal entry into Jeru- Jeru i alem and the Of bf palm branches In hIS path by the mul- mul multitude Maundy l Thul Thursday commemorates the Last Supper and the ashing of the dIscIples feet also Chust's Christs agony In Gethsemane and his Ius betrayal by Judas Good represents the day of the ion and is cele- cele celebrated m in Catholic and churches with solemnity Easter Even IS the name gIven to the entIre day of twenty twenty- four hours bet bet een Good FrIday and Easter a pel period od for prayer and religious contemplatIOn Easter Sunday the most JOYous day of the ChrIstian calen- calen calendar calendar dar commemorates the 1 resurrection and this year falls on April 1 In the early hl history tOlY of the church Easter was observed on val C 3 dates by dIfferent bodies of ChrIstians but the CouncIl of Nice In Inthe inthe the year fIxed it as the fIrst Sunday following the full moon occurring on or next net after the vernal equinox March 21 21 Easter Sunday may come as early as March 22 or as late as I AprIl 25 and Its date governs all ecclesiastIcal days from Ash Wednesday the beginning of Lent to Trinity Sunday eight weeks after Easter |