The Holy Week starts on March 28, Passion Sunday. It is the sixth and last Sunday of Lent and the Sunday before Easter.

This is the Sunday on which palms are distributed to the congregation in most Christian churches and, because of the distribution of palm branches, it has long been called Palm Sunday. In the past, the fifth Sunday of Lent (the Sunday before Palm Sunday) was known as Passion Sunday in the Catholic and Anglican churches. However, following Vatican II, the sixth Sunday of Lent was officially re-named Passion Sunday in the Catholic and Anglican churches. Palm branches are still distributed but the focus is on the betrayal, arrest, suffering and crucifixion of Jesus rather than on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem just before his death. Passion/Palm Sunday is the start of Holy Week in which the Church commemorates the Last Supper and the first Eucharist on Holy Thursday and Christ's death on Good Friday.

Catholic and many Protestant churches now refer to the sixth Sunday in Lent as Passion Sunday and focus on the passion of Christ in their liturgies for that Sunday. However, customs and traditions die hard and many lay people continue to think of and refer to the sixth Sunday of Lent as Palm Sunday. While the changes to the liturgy and the re-focusing on Christ's suffering and death have been well received by the members of most congregations, the name change to Passion Sunday has not really taken root among them.

Holy Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are special days of preparations before the Paschal Triduum (ie, Holy Thursday-Saturday. Usually, a Lenten recollection is held in the parishes.

St. John the Evangelist of Metropolitan Cathedral will have Fr. Dom Xavier De Borja, Canon Regular of St. Augustine will be the main facilitator from Holy Monday-Tuesday at 6:o0pm . The San Francisco Parish will have Fr. Felipe Culvera of the Major Seminary and Fr. Rex Andrew Alarcon as facilitators from Holy Monday-Wednesday at 6:00pm. The same days and time also at the Basilica of OL of Penafrancia where Fr. Wilmer Tria, Fr. Jose Cortez and Fr. Louie Occiano as facilitators. And Fr. Joey Gonzaga will be at the St. Jude Parish, Concepcion Grande.

Sponsored by the CCCom and KBP, the media practitioners will also have a recollection at the Holy Rosary Minor Seminary at 11:30am until afternoon. Fr. Florante Afable SDB will be the facilitator of the mediamen.

There are a variety of events that are clustered on this last day before Jesus was arrested that are commemorated in various ways in services of worship. These include the last meal together, which was probably a Passover meal, the institution of Eucharist or Communion, the betrayal by Judas (because of the exchange with Jesus at the meal), and Jesus praying in Gethsemane while the disciples fell asleep. Most liturgies, however, focus on the meal and communion as a way to commemorate this day.

All the priests will gather at the Cathedral for the mass of the chrism and renewal of the priestly vows. The Archbishop will also deliver his message to the priests and the people of God. The jubilarians will also be recognized during the ceremony.

Friday of Holy Week has been traditionally been called Good Friday or Holy Friday. On this day, the church commemorates Jesus’ arrest (since by Jewish customs of counting days from sundown to sundown it was already Friday), his trial, crucifixion and suffering, death, and burial. Since services on this day are to observe Jesus’ death, and since Eucharist is a celebration, there is traditionally no Communion observed on Good Friday. Also, depending on how the services are conducted on this day, all pictures, statutes, and the cross are covered in mourning black, the chancel and altar coverings are replaced with black, and altar candles are extinguished. They are left this way through Saturday, but are always replaced with white before sunrise on Sunday.

There are a variety of services of worship for Good Friday, all aimed at allowing worshippers to experience some sense of the pain, humiliation, and ending in the journey to the cross. The traditional Catholic service for Good Friday was held in mid-afternoon to correspond to the final words of Jesus from the cross (around 3 PM, Matt 27:46-50). However, modern schedules have led many churches to move the service to the evening to allow more people to participate. Usually, a Good Friday service is a series of Scripture readings, a short homily, and a time of meditation and prayer. One traditional use of Scripture is to base the homily or devotional on the Seven Last Words of Jesus as recorded in the Gospel traditions.

This is the seventh day of the week, the day Jesus rested in the tomb. In the first three Gospel accounts this was the Jewish Sabbath, which provided appropriate symbolism of the seventh day rest. While some church traditions continue daily services on Saturday, there is no communion served on this day.

Some traditions suspend services and Scripture readings during the day on Saturday, to be resumed at the Easter Vigil after sundown Saturday. It is traditionally a day of quiet meditation as Christians contemplate the darkness of a world without a future and without hope apart from God and his grace.

It is also a time to remember family and the faithful who have died as we await the resurrection, or to honor the martyrs who have given their lives for the cause of Christ in the world. While Good Friday is a traditional day of fasting, some also fast on Saturday as the climax of the season of Lent. An ancient tradition dating to the first centuries of the church calls for no food of any kind to be eaten on Holy Saturday, or for 40 hours before sunrise on Sunday. However it is observed, Holy Saturday has traditionally been a time of reflection and waiting, the time of weeping that lasts for the night while awaiting the joy that comes in the morning (Psa 30:5).

Easter is the principal feast of the ecclesiastical year. Pope Leo I calls it the greatest feast (festum festorum), and says that Christmas is celebrated only in preparation for Easter. It is the centre of the greater part of the ecclesiastical year. The order of Sundays from Septuagesima to the last Sunday after Pentecost, the feast of the Ascension, Pentecost, Corpus Christi, and all other movable feasts, from that of the Prayer of Jesus in the Garden (Tuesday after Septuagesima) to the feast of the Sacred Heart (Friday after the octave of Corpus Christi), depend upon the Easter date. Commemorating the slaying of the true Lamb of God and the Resurrection of Christ, the corner-stone upon which faith is built, it is also the oldest feast of the Christian Church, as old as Christianity, the connecting link between the Old and New Testaments.