Webster, as ever, confuses the issue.
Passion Week could easily refer to the week following
Passion Sunday. Maundy Thursday is the
Thursday in
Holy Week. This is the day on which the
British Monarch distributes the
Maundy Money - an act of symbolic almsgiving. Many churches have vigils, foot-washing rituals and other observations. This is also the original day for the commemoration of the
Last Supper,
Corpus Christi being a later introduction.
Office hymn:
Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium
Back to
Spy Wednesday
Forward to
Good Friday
Footnote:
Dante's
Divine Comedy begins on this day. The
Inferno lasts from the Thursday afternoon to the Friday night.