Holy Week, concluding with the Easter Triduum, is the Great Week for Christians. The rituals of these days have a fascinating history, one which the author unfolds with insight, clarity, and humour. He gives a new understanding of what we are about when we celebrate the Holy Week liturgies - not just ceremonies and words, but expressions of a faith, expressions which for better or worse have been influences by changing pieties and cultures. Written with love and with scholarship. The author's aim is not pure history but to give life and spirit to what we do today. For liturgists, planners, ministers - for all who celebrate.