[Magdalen] Sacred Triduum?

[Joseph Cirou]

The Byzan tine Rite gets many things correct; but the last three Days of Holy Week is not always one of them. The popularity of the Matins services sometimes, but not always, overshadows the Institution of the Eucharist. Some places have moved what should be morning services back to their popular time slot in the evening. At St John's I believe the Passion Gospel Service takes the place of Great Vespers and th e Divine Liturgy of St Basil. IN larger churches the Vesper Liturgy has been done in the Morning.  I think the Carpatho Rusyns are beginning to celebrate at the proper time. It is quite a task to do more than one major service in a day. It can be a marathon sometimes with small congregations. At Christ the Redeemer, we did Vespers and Liturgy at 3:30PM and then had a break or collation and did the Passion Gospel Service at about 7 or 8. I inherited this arrangement from my Benedictine predecessor Fr. Vladimir Tarasevitch (later Bishop)
Our church had this schedule for many years. I think it was somewhat novel at the time.

Joe

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>The quarterly "Worship" published by the Benedictines of Saint John's
>Abbey (Collegeville, MN) has a lengthy article emphasizing the recent
>introduction of the concept of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and
>the Easter Vigil as one continuum ("Sacred Triduum").  The  article
>traces the development of this concept only since the 1960's, but  OTOH,
>stresses that this is "correct" theology of the end of Holy Week.   Lent
>for Roman Catholics ends with the start of "Holy (Maundy) Thursday.
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>By coincidence (I think) the Rector of Saint Mary the Virgin Parish
>("Smokey Mary's") has this subject as his weekly blurb to  congregation
>and friends of the Parish.  He also points out how recent the  concept
>and the term are, and claims that the term is not used in the  1979
>TEC Prayerbook.  Saint Mary's is therefore dropping the use of  the
>term, "Triduum," and simply labeling the days, Maundy Thursday,
>Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil.  Each of these days will 
>be a separate entity.
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>Poor me.  I just learned how to spell "Triduum" and now it's  gone?
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>David Strang.
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