Most people are familiar with the afternoon and evening liturgies of the Triduum: Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the Liturgy of the Lord’s Passion on Good Friday, and, of course, the Easter Vigil Mass the night before Easter Sunday. But there is also another powerful time of liturgical prayer during the early morning of these three days: Tenebrae.
Read MoreAlleluia! He is risen! Are you still overcome with Paschal joy? Nearly every day at Mass during the Easter season, if we pay close attention, we hear those words during the preface of the Eucharistic liturgy: “…overcome with Paschal joy…” So how come many of us feel more relief that Lent is over and a bit of anxiety over what to do about all the Easter candy in the house with shorts season right around the corner?
Read MoreAlleluia! He is risen! Though we may prepare for Easter with forty days of fasting, we celebrate our new life in Christ by His passion, death and resurrection with fifty days of feasting!
Read MoreThe chapel is dark and hushed. We've processed inside from the Easter fire, holding our lighted candles. In darkness we stood for the Exultet, listened to excerpts from the Scriptures telling our salvation history, responding in psalms and prayers. Then the moment comes: the sounds of the Gloria swells, the bells peal, the lights come on and all the sisters cast off their black copes, revealing the full white of the Dominican habit.
Read MoreHoly Week and Easter Sunday at the Monastery.
Read More
