The Holy Week Rites in Taranto are certainly the 'most important event of the year, not only from the religious aspect but also socially and culturally. In three days of the Easter Triduum, Holy Thursday to Holy Saturday, the Vigil until midnight, the city lives in a timeless dimension, in which the frantic pace of daily life are exorcised by the slow pilgrimage of the members and all faithful.
Popular piety, tarantino distinctive feature of the people in those days is expressed in churches, streets, squares in a combined, shared and moved.
You can venture an account Taranto by saying that, on this occasion, gather each year that identity, that sense of belonging to the city that sometimes seems lost or, worse yet, removed a misplaced sense of their roots and their history.
. You can venture an account Taranto by saying that, on this occasion, gather each year that identity, that sense of belonging to the city that sometimes seems lost or, worse yet, removed a misplaced sense of their roots and their history.
primary focus of Rites are the two confraternities of Maria SS. Sorrows and St. Dominic and Carmine that more than two centuries, on time, with the same love and devotion to organize the same touching and original processions with which you can experience the dramatic moments of the sorrows of Our Lady of Sorrows and Passion of Christ. outset it must be said that the rites of Holy Week is the culmination and most visible part of a preparatory phase involved sees the Brotherhood since Ash Wednesday.
The Brotherhood of 'Our Lady of Sorrows, as well as that of Mount Caramel, held every Sunday evening Way of the Cross lived by the brothers in the guise of ritual, is also particularly solemn turning the Way of the Cross' last Sunday of Lent, called a time Passion Sunday, on Via Duomo, in the Old City to the Church of San Domenico, the evening takes place the following Monday, again in San Domenico, the Concerto Passion in Taranto, of funeral marches, performed by the Band of the Navy, the Friday of the Passion takes place in the San Domenico secular function Compass Virginis or "Via Matris," according to the rite of the Servants of Mary, whose spirituality the Brotherhood is connected with the solemn 's participation in administration, in the guise of ritual; Santo finally takes place on Monday the pious practice of meditation on the seven words of Christ on the Cross.
The Brotherhood of 'Our Lady of Sorrows, as well as that of Mount Caramel, held every Sunday evening Way of the Cross lived by the brothers in the guise of ritual, is also particularly solemn turning the Way of the Cross' last Sunday of Lent, called a time Passion Sunday, on Via Duomo, in the Old City to the Church of San Domenico, the evening takes place the following Monday, again in San Domenico, the Concerto Passion in Taranto, of funeral marches, performed by the Band of the Navy, the Friday of the Passion takes place in the San Domenico secular function Compass Virginis or "Via Matris," according to the rite of the Servants of Mary, whose spirituality the Brotherhood is connected with the solemn 's participation in administration, in the guise of ritual; Santo finally takes place on Monday the pious practice of meditation on the seven words of Christ on the Cross.
Holy Week, however, com 'is understood by Taranto, live strong first Palm Sunday when, after participation in the Mass in the morning, the two fraternities in two different places, meet in Extraordinary Session, called "race " to proceed with 'the award of symbols and items that will come in pilgrimage and procession in the days of the Easter Triduum. All
then begin on Holy Thursday with the "Mass of the Lord's Supper, which takes place during the ritual of" washing of feet "of twelve brothers in the guise of ritual. Meanwhile, the church of the Carmine
have already begun the pairs of brothers for the pilgrimage .
then begin on Holy Thursday with the "Mass of the Lord's Supper, which takes place during the ritual of" washing of feet "of twelve brothers in the guise of ritual. Meanwhile, the church of the Carmine
have already begun the pairs of brothers for the pilgrimage .
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- Text taken from 'intervention prof. Antonio Liuzzi, Prior Brotherhood of 'Our Lady of Sorrows, on "The Holy Week in Taranto, on the occasion Conference of "Holy Week in Andalusia, Sicily, Puglia" held in Caltanissetta 7 to 9 March 2009.
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