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Wednesday of Holy Week. Tenebrae. We
begin our observance of the Sacred Triduum of the Lord with the
ancient service of darkness.
Holy Thursday. After the solemn Mass of the Lord's Supper,
the altar is stripped and the cross is veiled.
Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament continues until Midnight on Holy
Thursday.
Good Friday, March 25, 2005. Morning Praise in the East
Apse.
James Savage conducts the men's chant choir during Good Friday
morning praise.
At the Tre Ore ("Three Hours") devotion on Good Friday, we meditate
on the Seven Last Words of Jesus, his last recorded words in the
four Gospels. Margaret O'Brien Steinfels offered meditations
this year. "What are we doing here?" she asked at the
beginning of her remarks. "What are we looking for? Some
glimpse into the mind of Jesus as he prayed in Gethsemane, or as he
was betrayed by his friends, or as he was confronted by--and himself
confronted--the authorities in Jerusalem. What was he thinking
as he climbed to the place of his execution? What was he
thinking as he hung upon the Cross?"
At the beginning of the solemn celebration of the Lord's Passion on
the evening of Good Friday, the entire assembly gathers and prays in
silence.
View from the oculus. The clergy prostrate themselves
before the altar while the assembly kneels in silence on Good
Friday.
Together we venerate the cross of Christ. "This is the wood of
the cross on which hung the savior of the world!" We respond:
"Come, let us worship."
Individual veneration of the cross. The choir sings
Rachmaninoff's Veneration of the Cross: "We venerate
thy Cross, O Lord Christ, and we praise and glorify thy holy
resurrection: for thou art our God; we know none other beside
thee; therefore we call upon thy name. O come hither, all ye
faithful, let us magnify Christ's holy resurrection: for
behold, through the Tree joy has come to all the world."
On Holy Saturday, March 26, we again gather for Morning
Praise in the East Apse. Today the responsory reminds us of
the great victory to come: "For our sake Christ was obedient
to the point of death, death on a cross. Therefore God raised him on
high and gave him the name that is above all other names."
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