# PASSION WEEK 2025 HIGHLIGHTS – NEW WESTMINSTER EPARCHY

- Link: https://nweparchy.ca/2025/04/passion-week-2025-highlights-new-westminster-eparchy/
- Published: 2025-04-22T18:48:05-07:00
- Author: Website

Passion Week is always a solemn period following or rather at the dramatic conclusion
of the Great Fast. The mystery, the theology, the drama and melodies of the many
Holy Week services draw many to their local parish churches. The week from Palm (‘
willow’) Sunday through the Scriptural events of the Passion of the Christ right
up to the gathering at the tomb of Christ in the cool pre-dawn darkness for the 
nadhrobne is a period rich in interactive events, processions, prostrations and 
verses and music that moves one’s soul to unexperienced heights.

This year, as in the past, all of the parishes of vast territory of the Eparchy 
of New Westminster held as many services as they could and in accord with the ancient
practices that have replenished the souls of the faithful from the most remote mountain
village in Ukraine to the grand city cathedrals and throughout the world to so many
countries wherever the Ukrainian Catholic Church is established. British Columbia
was no exception. God bless the parish priests and the faithful that collaborated
with them to bring to life the Palm Sunday to Holy Saturday experience.

Great and Holy Friday procession at Holy Cross Parish, Surrey, **[****[HERE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11pXn-rdiOc)****]**

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