It is important then to get the priorities right from the beginning; in the advanced planning, it is the vigil that needs the greatest amount of work and resources. Everyone's candles are lit from the Paschal candle and the faithful return in procession into the sanctuary. Hopefully the Gloria will be sung this evening, and thus it might be preferable to recite the penitential rite. While Eucharistic Prayer I may be too long for some congregations, it does have some special texts for use at this Mass, and so is worth considering. This is probably a remnant of the days when all the celebrations were anticipated by many hours, with the Easter Vigil happening on saturday morning, and coresponding celebrations on Thursday and Friday mornings. Carl Olson is the author of Will Catholics Be Left Behind? Our hope is that you will find it helpful, whether as a celebrant, a minister or a participant in the liturgies of these grace-filled days. This approach also serves as a model for any non-eucharistic gifts that may be envisaged for Masses on other occasions. according to ancient tradition, the Church fasts "because the Spouse has been taken away." May the Morning Star which never sets On these days one full meal is allowed. People don’t want authentic celebration to be sacrificed on the latar of ‘practicality’. During Lent, we focus on fasting, prayer, and almsgiving in an attempt to show contrition for our sins and to grow closer to God as we prepare for the Holy Triduum: the climax of each liturgical year. The Introductory RiteAs people gather, a short music practice will help them to participate more fully. It is above all an action in which we ourselves are marked by the dying and rising of Jesus. As he unveils each part, he sings, "This is the wood of the cross." The Easter Triduum officially begins with the celebration of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday and continues through the Easter Vigil on Saturday. As always, comments, notices or music practices are best conducted from a place other than the ambo, which is sacred to the Word of God. For as Eastern Catholics sing hundreds of times during the Paschal season, "Christ is risen from the dead; by death He conquered death, and to those in the graves, He granted life!". Plan an ‘Easter Garden’, either inside the church (but away from the altar) or outside. In this reading the great drama of the Passion unfolds, with Jew and Gentile, male and female, and the powerful and the weak all revealed for who they are and how their choices to follow or deny Christ will affect their lives and the lives of others. Liturgical planners should resist the temptation to enact the foot-washing during the Gospel reading itself. The Paschal candle will be placed in the sanctuary (usually by the altar) for the Easter season, then will be kept in the baptistery so that when the sacrament of baptism is administered the candles of the baptized can be lit from it. Tonight’s readings might provoke us to ask: do we really accept the gift that Jesus gives us in these three days, let alone imitate it? Through our acceptance in faith of God’s word and our participation in the sacraments, we too die and rise with Christ, even now. Generally they are quite happy to take time at things in these holy days. The symbols of the triduum are eloquent and speak to us on many levels – too much explanation will rob them of their power. Being a vigil — a time of anticipation and preparation — it takes place at night, starting after nightfall and finishing before daybreak on Easter, thus beginning and ending in darkness. There is always more to a symbol than what is immediately available to our intellectual grasp. A more modern temptation is to try to turn the reservation of the Blessed Sacrament into a representation of the Garden of Olives. He places the cross and then venerates it; other clergy, lay ministers, and the faithful then approach and venerate the cross by touching or kissing it. Easter is in many ways the season of baptism, the sacrament of Christian initiation, in which those who formally lived in darkness and death are buried and baptized in Christ, emerging filled with light and life. The simple, direct form of the Good Friday liturgy and readings brings the faithful face to face with the cross, the great scandal and paradox of Christianity. A Gospel ProcessionA procession with the Book of Gospels seems appropriate to the solemnity of the celebration. The Communion RiteThis Mass is a very suitable occasion for offering communion under both kinds to the congregation. Just where we might expect to find the narrative of the institution of the Eucharist, the Gospel according to John gives us the story of the washing of the feet. But it is most often used to describe the three days prior to the great feast of Easter: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday and the Easter Vigil. We have a tendency to see the triduum as ‘Thursday to Saturday’. The saving event that we now enter into is Jesus’ own exodus to the Father. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.". It should be celebrated everywhere on Good Friday, and where possible should be prolonged throughout Holy Saturday so that the faithful may attain the joys of the Sunday on the resurrection with uplifted and responsive minds’ (110). The Triduum begins with the evening Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday, which commemorates when the Eucharist was instituted at the Last Supper by Jesus. With the advantage of pilgrimages to the Holy Land, the desire to relive in situ each moment of the final events leading up to the death of Christ led to a further emphasis on each distinct event. The solemnity of the occasion also suggests the use of incense at other moments of the liturgy: the Gospel, the Preparation of the Gifts and the Procession to the Place of Repose. The words of Jesus ‘Do this as a memorial of me’, recounted in the second reading, take on new force when we realise that the Last Supper took place within a Passover context. Use the material as a source of spiritual enrichment on the Lenten journey so that the different dynamics of the various liturgies will come through. Likewise, the reading from Paul's epistle to the Christians in Corinth (1 Cor 11) repeats the words given by the Son of God to His apostles at the Last Supper: "This is my body that is for you. Then the Exultet is sung by the deacon (or priest or cantor). The Missal is placed on the altar. One… Some thought might be given to finding various of keeping the sense of festivity alive: HOLY THURSDAY: EVENING MASS OF THE LORD’S SUPPER. Holy Thursday evening is the threshold of Good Friday, just as the Easter Vigil is the crossover into Easter Sunday, the moment of ‘passing’ from fast to feast, from death to glory. 1. These readings include the story of creation (Genesis 1 and 2), Abraham and Isaac (Genesis 22), the crossing of the Red Sea (Exodus 14 and 15), the prophet Isaiah proclaiming God's love (Isaiah 54), Isaiah's exhortation to seek God (Isaiah 55), a passage from Baruch about the glory of God (Baruch 3 and 4), a prophecy of Ezekiel (Ezekiel 36), Saint Paul on being baptized into Jesus Christ (Rom 6), and the Gospel of Luke about the empty tomb discovered on Easter morning (Luke 24:1-21). In some churches a simple way to do this is to have each person sitting on a light chair in front of the front benches, from the beginning of Mass. A Real Act of Service: the Collection for the PoorThe Missal suggests a procession of gifts for the poor at this point of the liturgy. Carl E. Olson. Afterward, the faithful receive Communion and then depart silently. The Easter Vigil concludes with the Liturgy of the Eucharist and the reception of the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of the Crucified and Risen Lord. It should be celebrated everywhere on Good Friday, and where possible should … The Church, by the celebration of this mystery through liturgical signs and sacramentals, is unite… John McCann and Pat O’Donoghue are priests involved in organising the liturgy at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. Even the word ‘triduum’ is not in the vocabulary of many who would, however, understand the idea of a ‘three-day event’. People will expect celebrations that are truly uplifting and profound.
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