Note to Bishops and Episcopal Conferences on the Celebration of Holy Week 2022

During the Easter festivities of past years, marked by the difficult situation of the pandemic, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments offered guidelines to help Bishops in their task of assessing concrete situations and providing for the spiritual good of pastors and faithful in their celebration of Holy Week, the centre of the entire liturgical year. In view of the ongoing slowdown of the pandemic, albeit at different rates in individual countries, we do not intend to offer any further guidelines for the Holy Week celebrations. The experience that the Episcopal Conferences have gained in recent years is certainly sufficient to deal with the various situations in the most appropriate ways, always taking care to observe the ritual norms contained in the liturgical books. We would therefore like to ...