Showing posts with label triduum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label triduum. Show all posts

Thursday, April 01, 2010

The Paschal Triduum - How long is it?

I hear and read many people talking about the Paschal (or Easter) Triduum as "Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday/the Easter Vigil."  Little do they realize that, unlike the "three days and three nights" which the Lord prophesied He would be buried, the Paschal Triduum is actually 72 hours:  three days and three nights... or rather, three nights and three days.

But, as Levar Burton would say on Reading Rainbow, you don't have to take my word for it:  ask the Church!
The Easter Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, is continued through Good Friday with the celebration of the passion of the Lord and Holy Saturday, to reach its summit in the Easter Vigil, and concludes with Vespers of Easter Sunday. (Paschalis Sollemnitatis 27)
Just thought I'd clear that up for you.

(By the way, is the document Paschales Solemnitatis or Paschalis Solemnitatis?  Does Solemnitatis have one l or two?  I've seen it written in various ways, although I've never seen the original Latin document.)

P.S. Thanks to Greg for correcting the spelling. It turns out the Adoremus Bulletin corrected its filename to correspond to the proper document title.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Holy Triduum

(EWTN's online video feed is finally working for me. Now I can watch the Mass of the Lord's Supper from Rome while I work.)

This evening at 7:30 is the Mass of the Lord's Supper. Tomorrow morning, I'm driving down to Berlin, NJ, for a 9:00 AM Tenebrae service at Mater Ecclesiae. Tomorrow at 3:00 PM I will be at Queenship of Mary for the Memorial of the Lord's Passion and veneration of the Cross. Tomorrow evening I will be reading reflections for the Stations of the Cross. Saturday morning I will be at Queenship at 8:00 AM for Morning Prayer, and then at 8:00 PM begins the Easter Vigil.

Whatever you're doing for the Triduum, I hope you are blessed and find time for your private devotions and prayers; and have a blessed and happy Easter!