Holy Tuesday of Passion Week, also called Shrove Tuesday, is a day with an important spiritual and religious charge for Christians.
Holy Tuesday in Passion Week is a day with an important spiritual and religious charge for Christianity.
Also called Dry Tuesday, on this day the Holy Fathers ordered the reading of the Parable of the ten virgins.
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This is the day Jesus Christ told his 12 disciples the parable of the 10 virgins, which tells the story of five “wise” and five “unwise” virgins preparing for a wedding.
In the New Testament, meeting Christ is likened to a wedding. Christ calls himself “bridegroom”, and the Apostles are called “friends of the bridegroom”. The bride of Christ is the Church, and the Kingdom of Heaven is represented in this parable by the ten virgins who welcome their bridegroom with lit candles, that is, the Savior.
Christ wanted this parable to show the importance of preparation for the final judgment. From this parable we must practically understand that the fasting period must also be accompanied by almsgiving and that “we are not heirs of the kingdom of God,” according to crestinortodox.ro.
Denia from Martea
Five “wise” and five “unwise” virgins prepare for the wedding. Waiting for the late bridegroom, the maidens fall asleep.
Later, at midnight, the arrival of the bridegroom, that is, the Savior, is announced, and the virgins wake up.
The oil in the candles of the foolish brides is almost gone, so they ask the help of the wise virgins to lend them oil so that their candle will not go out.
The wise virgins refuse to share the oil with the other virgins, on the grounds that their lamps may also go out. The foolish virgins are forced to go this way to buy oil.
While they are gone, the bridegroom arrives. He goes to the wedding with the virgins”which were ready” and the door closes. The foolish virgins will also arrive, but they will find the door closed and cry out: “Lord, Lord, open to us” and the bridegroom answers them: “I tell you the truth: I do not know you.”
In the popular tradition, on Shrove Tuesday housewives do Easter cleaning. It is also the last day when people can work in the fields.
