The Catholic Encyclopedia (EC) encourages this Holy Week to carry out a “devout exercise of visiting the seven tabernacles” on Good Thursday and Good Friday.
After collecting the ancient text of the “Devotee exercise to visit the tabernacles”, the director of the EC, José Gálvez Krüger, stressed that “this visit on Holy Thursday is a devout penitential, expiatory and reparatory practice”.
“Holy Week is not, as they currently say, a time for mere reflection, but rather a special period of the liturgical calendar in which the Christian believer must become aware of the cost of his salvation, and the obligation who has to pay with love the love of the Redeemer”.
“Through this devotion, Christ is spiritually visited as a prisoner, insulted and tortured in dungeons, to adore him, accompany him and comfort his anguished heart,” he explained.
Gálvez Krüger also explained that “in addition to these tributes”, during the visit to the tabernacles on Good Thursday and Good Friday “we pray for all the souls in Purgatory, especially for those who have the most obligations to pay”.
“The dungeon of Christ is a simile of the purgatorial ‘dungeon’. It is an ancient belief, derived from the vision of mystics, that angels visit Purgatory on holy days to liberate already purified souls”, he indicated.
In addition, he stressed, “the number seven is allegorical of the seven sacraments and the so-called seven sheddings of blood that the Lord had throughout his life.”
To access the “Devotee exercise to visit the tabernacles”, you can enter: https://ec.aciprensa.com/wiki/Devoto_ejercicio_para_visitar_los_sagrarios_el_jueves_y_viernes_santo
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