Angela Tilby: Holy Week, seen in a different way

There was a time when during Holy Week only single films of Holy Week were shown on television. A whole film library. In these pages Javier Rubio Donzé just published an excellent list a few days ago: Ten films for Holy Week, and all were pure Holy Week. In the end, it was those years that got one, more than one, to become fond of such films. Beyond their religious character, or near, or of time (a time that was, of course, that of the Passion).…

Angela Tilby: Holy Week, seen in a different way

AT PORTSMOUTH CATHEDRAL this year, we have had Nicholas Mynheer’s Sarum Cycle on display in the nave, making the 13 paintings the theme of our Lent course. They follow the action of Holy Week and Easter, from Palm Sunday to Jesus’s recall of Peter...

After the rains that marked the Holy Tuesday, Holy Wednesday has given Cadiz a luminous day, ideal for the procession parade of the brotherhood of Las Aguas. The brotherhood, unique in the Holy Week that Processes with three steps, has offered one of the most emblematic prints: the discurrence of its images under the sun and by the sea. The procession has been headed by Saint John the Evangelist, followed by the Most Holy Christ of the Waters an…