Favorite Holy Week liturgy?

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I would have to say mine is Holy Thursday. The day starts off kind of happy with the Chrism Mass and the institution of the priesthood and the blessing of the oils, and then it ends off very solemnly with the stripping of the altars at the end of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It really hits home every year.
 
Good Friday service with the veneration of the cross really gets me. But it is a tie with Holy Thursday… what a beautiful and mystical week we are all beginning today!!
 
While technically it’s one great liturgy, the celebration I like most is the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper because of its Eucharistic and priestly significance.
 
I love Palm Sunday. I love replacing our palm leaves every year, showing the kids how to fashion crosses out of them, I love the red vestments and the gospel, and starting off Holy Week for the family. The Easter Vigil… I guess I’m not a 3-hour Mass type girl. Ours begins at 8PM, so not something we could do as a family anyway.
 
Unfair; I love the whole Triduum because it all fits together so perfectly. How can you separate the days?
 
For me, I really love the Byzantine Easter Vigil. Sadly, that wasn’t an option so I couldn’t select it. But really, if there’s an Eastern Catholic Church near you, I strongly suggest giving it a shot for the Easter Vigil. it is SO AMAZING.

So, other than that, I picked the Good Friday service. I guess it’s really just an emotional time for me, and it really helps me understand Jesus’ sacrifice.
 
This is the first time I will be attending Holy Week with the Traditional Latin Mass. I’m really excited about going to all of them, especially the Easter Vigil!
 
CatholicZ09 said:
I would have to say mine is Holy Thursday. The day starts off kind of happy with the Chrism Mass and the institution of the priesthood and the blessing of the oils, and then it ends off very solemnly with the stripping of the altars at the end of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It really hits home every year.
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As well praying at the alter of repose where the Blessed Sacrament is and you can fell the lords presents with you wiles you are praying in front of the blessed sacrament. I am very devoted to the blessed sacrament.

: In nomine Patris, + et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
Introibo ad altare Dei. R: Ad deum qui laetificat juventutem meam.
 
CatholicZ09 said:
I would have to say mine is Holy Thursday. The day starts off kind of happy with the Chrism Mass and the institution of the priesthood and the blessing of the oils, and then it ends off very solemnly with the stripping of the altars at the end of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper. It really hits home every year.
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Do you always have the Chrism Mass on Maundy Thursday?
Our diocese celebrates it on the Tuesday of Holy Week.
 
Easter Vigil - a)because I’m a sucker for candlelight and b)love seeing people join the church

The music and readings are exceedingly beautiful and moving as well (we are blessed with talented people to help with our liturgies) but that is true of the other services during Holy Week too.

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I do not like the Easter Vigil at all for some reason.
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Oddly enough I’m lukewarm to it myself, but I usually go. My wife is Anglican and Easter is a time we try to be together for religious services, so I will usually go to the Vigil to fulfill my obligation, and then to her Anglican service on Sunday. This year she’s coming to the Vigil with me for the first time; last year she came to Good Friday, and this year it will be Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and the Vigil. She really likes Pope Francis, I think he’s reaching out to her 😃

My favourite though is the Holy Thursday evening Mass. Somehow the procession to the Altar of Repose as we chant the Pange Lingua really gets to me; when we arrive at the altar we are at the Tantum Ergo verses, and we kneel to the setting sun (the altar is in a room on the sunset side of the abbey).

I also find it fitting that all week we’ve been chanting the Pange Lingua of Venantius Fortunatus at Vigils and Lauds, then on Holy Thursday we chant the Pange Lingua of St. Thomas Aquinas at Mass; St. Thomas was inspired by Venantius Fortunatus’s Pange Lingua to write his, which has become better known (the earlier one is about the Cross; you will recognize it at the Good Friday liturgy, from the verses “Crux Fidelis”)…
 
OraLabora said:
Oddly enough I’m lukewarm to it myself, but I usually go. My wife is Anglican and Easter is a time we try to be together for religious services, so I will usually go to the Vigil to fulfill my obligation, and then to her Anglican service on Sunday. This year she’s coming to the Vigil with me for the first time; last year she came to Good Friday, and this year it will be Palm Sunday, Good Friday, and the Vigil. She really likes Pope Francis, I think he’s reaching out to her 😃

My favourite though is the Holy Thursday evening Mass. Somehow the procession to the Altar of Repose as we chant the Pange Lingua really gets to me; when we arrive at the altar we are at the Tantum Ergo verses, and we kneel to the setting sun (the altar is in a room on the sunset side of the abbey).

I also find it fitting that all week we’ve been chanting the Pange Lingua of Venantius Fortunatus at Vigils and Lauds, then on Holy Thursday we chant the Pange Lingua of St. Thomas Aquinas at Mass; St. Thomas was inspired by Venantius Fortunatus’s Pange Lingua to write his, which has become better known (the earlier one is about the Cross; you will recognize it at the Good Friday liturgy, from the verses “Crux Fidelis”)…
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I know that a lot of my family members prefer Easter Sunday Mass over the Easter Vigil. I like both, but I think I may like Easter Sunday a little more.
 
Count me in as another who isn’t a big fan of the Vigil. I don’t usually go, but I have to this year because I’ve been assigned to vest the pastor and parochial vicar for this Mass.

The highlight of my Holy Week is the Chrism Mass, which in my archdiocese always takes place in the evening on Tuesday of Holy Week.
 
Holy Thursday.
Every single person in congregation wants to be there. Purposeful, intentional.
The unity of the “bloodless sacrifice” and “the heavenly banquet” in the institution of the Eucharist stated clearly in the Introit.
The Mandatum.
Procession of Oils
The repose of the sacrificed Lord both literally and symbolically in the sepulchre of the Tabernacle after a sacral process which circumambulates through the church/nave/people.
Adoration.
What’s not to celebrate and savor?
 
Definitely Holy Thursday in the TLM. The singing of Psalm 22 in Latin during the stripping of the alter is incredibly tasteful. I find it preferable to have the Psalm sung in Latin and by a male due to the specific meaning behind it.
 
Is it just me, or do the “names” of these liturgies get longer and longer every year? In my yonger days, it was Palm Sunday (or Passion Sunday), Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday (or Easter Vigil). Now, according to my liturgy planning materials (I’m a music director), we have Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion, Holy Thursday of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion, and The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night. :confused:

Anyway, my vote is for Holy Thursday.
 
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