Easter Sunday, the most important occasion on the Christian calendar which comes up April 4, will also be celebrated without community fanfare.
MUMBAI: For second year in a row, the Catholic Church has pressed the mute button on holy week festivities.
Elaborate ceremonies and processions have been cancelled owing to the resurgence of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Easter Sunday, the most important occasion on the Christian calendar which comes up April 4, will also be celebrated without community fanfare.
Archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Cardinal Gracias, will broadcast all his services online. Issuing Holy Week guidelines to priests, he said, The washing of the feet ceremony at Maundy Thursday is cancelled. On Good Friday, the individual kissing of the cross is prohibited. After the unveiling, the cross will be held aloft for the entire congregation to venerate.
10th February 2021
Queen Victoria’s wedding dress is a powerful symbol of what she would refer to in her journal as the ‘
happiest day of my life’. Most probably, it represents more than any other item of clothing or object, the Queen’s identity as a royal bride. Certainly, she chose to wear it again in 1847, when she was painted in her wedding attire by the fashionable portraitist Franz Xaver Winterhalter, as a gift for Prince Albert on their seventh wedding anniversary. The simplicity of the dress could not be mistaken. Queen Victoria was appearing as a woman, dressed as she was on the day she became a royal wife.