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Semana Santa literally is "Holy Week".
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Jesus dieing is a "new Covenant". It replaces the old Covenant, also a blood sacrifice that was supposed to happen when Abraham was supposed to have sacrificed Isaac, his only son (in Genesis, around chapter 22). God saw that he was willing and stopped him, but still gave him the prosperity that he promised. Thus Jesus was part of his way of showing that there will be a new Covenant with his people, where the old laws are replaced with the new words of JC, of loving thy neighbor. This God, instead of requiring the sacrifice of someone else's son, provided his own as the sacrifice, making it all the greater, like what Lebell said. Hence the "this is my blood, the blood of a new Covenant" line at Mass. This part gets confusing for people, whereas with the old Covenant, God was vengeful and downright mean, with the new Covenant, God became or perhaps revealed himself as, a God of Love. And that is why JC had to die, to seal the sacrifice, hence the "Lamb of God" moniker.
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