Talk:Holy Wednesday

message: I have never heard of this day being called "Holy Wednesday" except in error. In both the Roman Catholic Church and the Episcopal Church in the USA, it is called "Wednesday in Holy Week".Rockhopper10r 22:46, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's formally called "Great and Holy Wednesday" in Orthodoxy, or "Holy Wednesday" casually. TCC (talk) (contribs) 23:03, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

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*Scholar.google.com
** Spy Wednesday 38 hits.
** Holy Wednesday 81 hits.
In each case, there are a handful of false positives, and some repeated titles. For Spy Wednesday, these are William Hood's novel and some Notes and Queries wntries, which are double hit later. The fact that it shows up in N&Q suggests that it was not common English, even in the 19th Century. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 23:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I find the Vatican's use of "Holy Wednesday" more convincing. jnestorius(talk) 01:06, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.</div>
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 07:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Will someone show me actual Biblical scripture that says Martha & Lazarus' sister was the one to anoint the feet of Jesus?
According to Matthew 26:6-7 "While Jesus was in Bethany in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came to him with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, which she poured on his head as he was reclining at the table." (NIV)
Likewise, according to Mark 14:3 "While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head." (NIV)
Nowhere in either section does it record the name of the woman. Various people have supposed that it was Mary, although the Bible does not support that.
Should that line be changed?
--Therealkeng (talk) 21:39, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mary, the sister of Martha and Lazarus 

message: Is the section named "Wednesday crucifixion" relevant to the article, which is about a date on the calendar in the week before Easter? It seems to me that the whole section should be moved to a page about reinterpretations of the Passion, or something like that. Marnanel (talk) 22:31, 31 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Whether or not this is intentional, I consider it a WP:POVFORK. I will see if I can move it. Adpete (talk) 03:50, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly agree that it should be a separate article of its own. It is fringe theory and is irrelevant to what is described in the lede or anywhere else in the article. It does not belong here. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 19:22, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

text: Seeing it is not related to "Holy Wednesday", which is a is on church calendars as two days before Good Friday, but not knowing what to do with the material, I am commenting out the section with a note explaining why and linking this talk page section. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 14:07, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wednesday crucifixion 

message: I think this section needs to be tightened up.
Tenebrae is the combined Office of Matins and Lauds of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. It is said on the morning of those days and should not be anticipated, except in churches where the Mass of the Chrism is said on Maundy Thursday morning; the Office may then be anticipated on the Wednesday evening.
A strepitus is any noisy interpolation, such as at the Gloria on Maundy Thursday and Holy Saturday. It doesn't refer only to that at the end of Tenebrae.
The distinctive feature with light is the progressive extinguishing of 14 of the 15 candles on the Tenebrae hearse, one at the end of each of the psalms. The six candles on the high altar are extinguished at each of the final six verses of the Benedictus.
The strepitus recalls the earthquake at the Resurrection. Hence why the fifteenth  hearse candle is at this point brought back from behind the altar, where it has been entombed, and shewn to the people before being itself extinguished.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.21.82 (talk) 18:23, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenebrae