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Ceremonltoe s of Holy Week .. . Wingled boy and qriep of Talm Sunda'v Tenebrae Symbolises Darkness of World at Death of Christ candles. In the centre of the Sanctu. llVhen there - is only one priest, he ary stands the book for the Psalms and says or sings the parts of the service Lessons. At the Epistle side we see a which in High Mass are sung by the large triangular candlestick, holding deacon and sub-deacon.) fifteen candles of common or imbleachThe ceremony of Palm Sunday is ed wax. made up of three functions. First, the The Office at which we are to assist Celebrant blesses and distributes palm s ; is called Tenebrae ) meaning darkness). then comes the procession of palms; This curious title is given to the Matins and thirdlly, \tars is offered, during and Lauds of the Divine Office appointwhich the history of the Passion, as is ed to be said on the Thursdev, Friday, recorded by St. Matthew, is sung or and Saturday in Holy Wc"k. The said, name may have been taken from the In following the services of Iloly antiphon given above or it may have Week we must always bear in mind the arisen from the gradual darkness that ' dramatic element of which the Church envelops the church as, one by one, the has always made use in her teaching. lights are extinguished during the reciWe must go back in imagination to the tation of the Office. Symbolically it centuries before the art of printing was is taken to typify the more than natuinvented; to the ages when nearly all ral darkness that overshadowed the teaching was by word of mouth and world at the death of Jests Christ. pictorial illustration; to the clays when The Divine Office, which is recited the dream of every boy artist was to daily by the clergy, either privately or paint his Bible around the walls of solemnly in Choir, consists of seven difhis village church. Now during this service, the Church ferent portions or " Hours:" These por. sets herself to picture to us two differtions are divided into Night-Hours ent emotions: joy at her Master's triiNocturns) and Day- Hours. Matins and Lauds, the night-hours, were said umphal entry into Jerusalem; sorrow at His approaching death. On this soon after midnight. The clay-hours day, the first day of the week of the belong to the different times of the day from dawn to sunset, and of these the Passover, the week in which Jesus (lied, Ile entered the Holy City in trihour of Vespers is iamiliar to most of us. In Tenebrae these night-hours are umph. His disciples were with Ilim and the multitudes cut clown branches anticipated, The Matins and Lauds which belong normally to the small of palm trees and cried aloud with one voice: " hosanna to the Son of David hours of Thursday morning are now blessed is Ile that cometh in the name said by anticipation on the Wednesday of the Lord." At the same time the evening, and the custom obtains in recloud of upproaching tribulation was gard to the night-hours of the two gathering darkly over the Church, for following days. in five (lays her Master would be nailed The Divine Office consists chiefly of to the cross of Calvary. To express to two elements. The more important of these is readings from the Holy Scripus her children, these opposite emo tions she gives us, first, the blessing tures; the other is made up from the of the patens, and, in joyous procession, approved writings of the Church: she depicts the entry into Jerusalem; hymns, prayers, homilies of the Fathers, while . in the Mass that follows, the and papal decrees. Naturally, in such a service of prayer, the Psalms form mournful chant of the Passion shadows forth the coming desolation. the most important part of the Scriptural element, but no book of floly TENEBRAE. Scripture is entirely omitted. Tenebrae faetae aunt dum crucifixissent Each of the three Nocturns consists Jesum Judaei : ( Matins for Good of three Psalms and three Lessons with Friday. V. Resp.) appropriate antiphons and responsories As we enter the church we are struck —the Lessons of the first Nocturn are with many signs of mourning at this taken from the Lamentations of Jeresacred time. The Tabernacle stands o'; RS . Written during the Exile in open, for the Blessed Sacrament has Babylon they recall the desolation of The veil of the Taberbeen removed. the Holy City widowed of her people, nacle, flowers, and other ornaments- are and for us they form a fitting picture gone. Nothing remains on the Altar of the Church's woe. On the last evenexcept the veiled Crucifix and the six
ing the first nocturn ends with the Prayer of Jeremias—"Our heritage is turned to strangers, our homes to aliens ... our fathers have sinned and are not; and we have borne their in. iquities... Jerusalem. Jerusalem, return to the Lord thy God." The lesFons of the second nocturn are taken from the homilies of St. Augustine; those of the third from the Epistles of St. Paul. The Lauds consist of five Psalms, followed by the Canticle of 7.achary ( Benedictus) and the whole Office is brought to an end with the 50th. Psalm (\fisererel and a Collect.
In the 011'ice on Wednesday evening the ddminant idea is the treason of Judas, but the lessons of the third nocturn are appropriately devoted to St. Paul's account of the Institution of the holy Eucharist. The keynote of the Good Friday Matins is the desolation of the Son of God in His Passion. "\ 1v friends have fled from me while the kings of the earth take courtscl against me," Peter--Barabbas—the false witnesses and the cry: " My God. my God, why halt Thou forsaken Me?" The spirit of Tenebrae of Holy Satur(Continued on Page 4.)
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