Ever attend Tenebrae service?

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I attended my first Tenebrae service (Wikipedia New Advent) last night after years of wanting to go to one. I found it very moving and would recommend to anybody to go if you’ve never been. I was just wondering how many people have attended one.
 
Have never had the privilage. However as part of my official reception into the ECUSA our Reception/Confirmation/Baptism class is attending our church’s Tenebrae service this year on Wednesday. I’m very much looking forward to it.
 
Yes, and it is a lovely service. I am doing one of the readings again this year. Usually they aren’t well-attended in my parish, unfortunately. Please try to go to yours.
 
we used to do it on Wednesday evening, but this year it will be the evening of Good Friday.
 
Yes, every year. It is a beautiful service. I do the readings sometimes.
 
-]/-]my parish has done tenebrae on holy wednesdat for 25 years whenever we get a new priest they always say “what is Tenebrae?”
 
I’m actually attending one for the first time this year. I’m really looking forward to it.
 
I’d never even heard about Tenebrae until I started with CAF. I know that no parish I’ve belonged to over the last 40 years has ever had such a service.

Since I’d been instrumental in having Evening Prayer in my parish for a few years, I’d be really interested in doing this next year. From what I’ve read online since seeing this poll, it appears that the Liturgy of the Hours today is nowhere as dramatic as Tenebrae used to be. Do those of you who have this liturgy use the revised LOH or do you use the old liturgy?
 
Phemie said:
I’d never even heard about Tenebrae until I started with CAF. I know that no parish I’ve belonged to over the last 40 years has ever had such a service.

Since I’d been instrumental in having Evening Prayer in my parish for a few years, I’d be really interested in doing this next year. From what I’ve read online since seeing this poll, it appears that the Liturgy of the Hours today is nowhere as dramatic as Tenebrae used to be. Do those of you who have this liturgy use the revised LOH or do you use the old liturgy?
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The version we use must be ancient. Lots of Latin chant and its wording is much different than the evening prayer I’m used to . We also whisper the our father between nocturns. To the person who says they will be attending on Saturday I’m wondering how this can be done. It should take place after sunset so true darkness can be experienced.
 
Not yet. I will for the first time this Thursday after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper.
 
Yep! I’ve sung for a few and helped to plan our Tenebrae this year. It’s going to be on Thursday night at 10pm. Mass is at 7, with time for silent prayer afterward and adoration at the altar of repose until Tenebrae starts. We had a decent turn out last year, and this year one of our priests has been talking it up, so hopefully we’ll have a lot of people show up.
 
Hoping to go tonight, though I had a client ask to schedule something last minute, and it’s too much trouble to try to reschedule her. Pray I get home in time to attend!
 
I wasn’t familiar with Tenebrae, so I looked it up. The Catholic Encyclopedia says that “Tenebræ is the name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week”. A few people on this thread have mentioned already having gone this year, and in the evening. If it is morning prayer for the last three days of Holy Week, how is it the case that some have already been this year, in the evening? Is it just a pastoral change to make it more accessible to all?
 
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I wasn’t familiar with Tenebrae, so I looked it up. The Catholic Encyclopedia says that “Tenebræ is the name given to the service of Matins and Lauds belonging to the last three days of Holy Week”. A few people on this thread have mentioned already having gone this year, and in the evening. If it is morning prayer for the last three days of Holy Week, how is it the case that some have already been this year, in the evening? Is it just a pastoral change to make it more accessible to all?
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I found the answer:
Even the shifting of the hour from midnight to the previous afternoon, when no real darkness can be secured, seems to have been prompted by the desire to render these sublime Offices more accessible to clergy and laity. Already in the thirteenth century it seems probable that at Rome Tenebræ began at four or five o’clock on the Wednesday (see Ord. Rom., xiv, 82, and Ord. Rom., xv, 62).
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Have never attended yet. But I much more prefer the praying of OR and Lauds of Good Friday and Holy Saturday. (which, we could say, is the equivalent of Tenebræ of the OF, since it was composed of Matins and Lauds of the triduum)
 
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