Stripping of the Altar of the altar at the conclusion of the Maundy Thursday liturgy in Lutheran Churches, the "lectern and pulpit are [also] left bare until Easter to symbolize the humiliation and barrenness of the cross." In Anglican Churches, this ceremony is also performed at the conclusion of Maundy Thursday services, "in which all appointments, linens, and paraments are removed from the altar and chancel in preparation for Good Friday." In the earlier form of the Roman Rite, the stripping of the altar was done at the end of Mass of the Lord's Supper on Maundy Thursday. It is still carried out All
After Saturday comes Sunday Foundation for Peace, a Christian diaspora association which appealed to Israel to hit Hezbollah hard, and open Ben Gurion Airport to the Lebanese diaspora. Thousands of Lebanese, it proclaimed, were eager to join the IDF to help liberate their homeland from Islamic fundamentalism, Ratzlav-Katz explained this press release as a reflection of an experience of: Lebanese Muslim militiamen active against Israel in the 1980s, as they kept up attacks on Lebanese Christians, (who) encapsulated their vision for the Middle East in a catchy phrase, "After Saturday comes Sunday." It is sometimes interpreted as a metonymy of the First they came