[Magdalen] Triddum Time.

[Scott Knitter]

Every Triduum, I cringe a little bit if someone brings up the secret,
special way the officiants should be leading the Daily Office on these
three days. It is traditional, but the BCP doesn't call for any of the
changes. I've offered the view that if we want people to know the secrets,
we should publish a Triduum office booklet. Well, St. Paul's, K Street, has
done so, and it's quite good. It's Rite I and KJV, so I'm using it as a
guide to praying the Rite II and NRSV office I normally keep.

Like the stripping of the church, the office gets cut back: no introductory
material but start with the psalms...read the lessons "bare," without
introduction or any conclusion. No creed, short Lord's Prayer, added
recitation of Ps. 51, then Good Friday collect stripped of its conclusion.
No Angelus nor anything else at the end.

http://www.saintpaulskstreet.org/triduum-sacrum-office-booklet/

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:17 AM cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

>
>
> I'm pretty much a shut-in and have been watching onEWTN the liturgies from
> the USA National Shrine, not becausethe liturgies are so beautiful, but
> rather because they havean extremely good choir,  Augmented at the Easter
> Vigil bya small orchestra and the gigantic Basilica Wicks pipe organ,the
> Triduum has always been memorable there.
>
> With the emphasis on staying at home, I'm wondering howmemorable the
> ceremonies and music will be. this year.
>
> If the Triduum is done well, it is incomparably beautiful, butI think
> there needs to be a touch of the flamboyant to makethe ceremonies really
> impressive. That flamboyance issadly so often missing.  For example, the
> ringing of smallhandbells and the tower bells at the Maundy Gloria andthe
> Gloria of the Easter Vigil was new to a rector at thelocal Procathedral who
> looked pale and gaunt when thecongregation happily sang accompanied by
> bells.
>
> Flamboyance  was certainly the case when I witnessed my firstEaster Vigil
> at Easter, in 1962 at the famous Nashotah TheologicalSeminary just near
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA  It wasliturgical flamboyance on steroids in that
> setting, and it blew away
> us four medical students who drove over from Madison, WIearly that
> evening.  I have never forgotten that Easter event.
>
> The same is true from my Triduum participation in the late1960's at Mainz,
> Frankfurt/M, and Cologne Cathedrals inGermany.  Even in these famous old
> settings such as the
> opening the large collection of triptychs and lighting themat Frankfurt/M
> is memorable.  And how can an Easter Vigilat Cologne and Mainz not produce
> lasting memories?
>
> I'll hope for the best from the Basilica/Shrine.
>
> Happy Triduum everybody !
>
> David Strang
>


-- 
Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA