It was a full house at Santa Barbara Catholic Church in Dededo, where every pew was filled as the village’s Catholic faithful gathered with palms in hand to mark the start of Holy Week through ...

of Holy Week. These days are the three holiest days in the Catholic Church. This Mass stresses the importance Jesus puts on the humility of service, and the need for cleansing with water ...

Holy Week observances began in Jerusalem in the earliest days of the Church, when devout people traveled to Jerusalem at Passover to reenact the events of the week leading up to the Resurrection.