Christmas Tridium?

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The local Carmelite monastery (nuns) is having available for the public Rosary recitation and the Mass three evenings this week, and it was noted in my church’s bulletin as “the Christmas Tridium.”

I know the word “tridium” refers to three days, and obviously we have the Easter Tridium, which is well known. But I’ve never heard of a Christmas one before. Is this a Carmelite celebration?

Any thoughts on this? I do plan to go, by the way.
 
odile53 said:
The local Carmelite monastery (nuns) is having available for the public Rosary recitation and the Mass three evenings this week, and it was noted in my church’s bulletin as “the Christmas Tridium.”

I know the word “tridium” refers to three days, and obviously we have the Easter Tridium, which is well known. But I’ve never heard of a Christmas one before. Is this a Carmelite celebration?

Any thoughts on this? I do plan to go, by the way.
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Fr. Hardon Dictionary:

TRIDUUM. A period of three days of prayer, either preceding some special feast or preparing for some major enterprise. Commemorates the biblical three days that Christ lay in the tomb.
 
Whoops-misspelled it! You’re referencing the three days that Christ was in the tomb. I can’t really figure out what three days would be in relation to the Nativity, though.
 
Vico said:
Fr. Hardon Dictionary:

TRIDUUM. A period of three days of prayer, either preceding some special feast or preparing for some major enterprise. Commemorates the biblical three days that Christ lay in the tomb.
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The Latin word “triduum” simply means “a period of three days.”
 
It is just a period of preparation for Christmas, more specific than the entire Advent season. In Filipino culture there is a tradition of a novena of Masses leading up to Christmas. There are probably other similar practices in other places.

The devotion at the Carmelite monastery sounds lovely.
 
odile53 said:
The local Carmelite monastery (nuns) is having available for the public Rosary recitation and the Mass three evenings this week, and it was noted in my church’s bulletin as “the Christmas Tridium.”

I know the word “tridium” refers to three days, and obviously we have the Easter Tridium, which is well known. But I’ve never heard of a Christmas one before. Is this a Carmelite celebration?

Any thoughts on this? I do plan to go, by the way.
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Ask your priest or the monastery. I am curious. I’ve never heard of a Christmas Tridum.

There’s a whole string of major celebrations during Advent/Christmas Season. Including:
  • Three Major Marian Solemnities: Immaculate Conception (December 8), Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (December 12), Mary the Mother of God (Jan. 1)
  • The Solemnities of the Octave of Christmas: Christmas, Holy Family, Mary of the Mother of God/the Circumcision (Jan 1).
  • The Solemnities of the Christmas Season: Christmas, the Holy Family, Mary the Mother of God/The Circumcision (Jan 1), the Epiphany, the Baptism of Our Lord.
There is plenty to craft a personal/local observance of a “Christmas Tridiuum.”
 
PacoG said:
Ask your priest or the monastery. I am curious. I’ve never heard of a Christmas Tridum.

There’s a whole string of major celebrations during Advent/Christmas Season. Including:
  • Three Major Marian Solemnities: Immaculate Conception (December 8), Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe (December 12), Mary the Mother of God (Jan. 1)
  • The Solemnities of the Octave of Christmas: Christmas, Holy Family, Mary of the Mother of God/the Circumcision (Jan 1).
  • The Solemnities of the Christmas Season: Christmas, the Holy Family, Mary the Mother of God/The Circumcision (Jan 1), the Epiphany, the Baptism of Our Lord.
There is plenty to craft a personal/local observance of a “Christmas Tridiuum.”
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The Holy Family and the Baptism of the Lord have the rank of feast not solemnity.
 
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