id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt _005195663 Catholic Church. Congregatio Sacrorum Rituum. On renewing the Holy Week liturgy : a general decree and instruction of the Sacred Congregation of Rites by which the Holy Week liturgy is renewed [Nov. 16, 1955]. 1955 .txt text/plain 4317 183 65 For many centuries Thursday, Friday and Saturday of Holy Week were holy- days of obligation, so that the Christian people, freed from servile works, could be present at the ceremonies taking place on those days. And so Urban VIII was compelled in his Apostolic Constitution ‘‘Universa per orbem,'' of September 24, 1642, to declare that the last three days of Holy Week were no longer holydays of obligation and to classify them as work- ing days. cache/_005195663.txt txt/_005195663.txt