Favorite Holy Week liturgy?

[Brendan]

I had a bit of a FB discussion with a Catholic friend. She was upset because her pastor had mentioned in his homily that everyone should make every effort to go the Triduum liturgies.

Her complain was that she doesn’t like Latin and wants to hear everything in English.

It took me a bit to realize what she was saying; she was confusing “Triduum” with “Tridentine”

:banghead:

 

[The_Reginator]

Yes. My diocese has always celebrated the Chrism Mass on Holy Thursday.

Just last night as I was reading my Marian missal for the Tridentine Mass I found out that, in 1963 at least, Maundy Thursday was the day for the Chrism Mass. Since attending a Catholic church (15 years prior to converting) it has always meant a two hour trip on Holy Tuesday to the Cathedral. I’ve never made it.

 

[Bran_Stark]

So how come there’s no option for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday?

 

[goneiri]

When I was a child we still did the old Tenebrae service for Good Friday, I loved it and miss it. The priest stripping the altar bare, the empty and wide open tabernacle, candles slowly going out until the church was in total darkness and then the loud noise that symbolised the tomb shutting closed.

 

[CatholicZ09]

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.

I believe they were always shortened that way, but the names of the liturgies come from the Roman Missal, I believe. The former Roman Missal had the title “Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion” as the title for Palm Sunday, but now the new Roman Missal phrases the day as “Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord”. It takes out the possessive adjective and adds an adjective phrase.

Some have weirder titles. I believe the Easter Vigil was formerly known as “The Great Easter Vigil”, and the new title is “The Easter Vigil in the Holy Night”.

Easter Sunday: The Resurrection of the Lord is now know as Easter Sunday of the Resurrection of the Lord.

Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion is now Friday of the Passion of the Lord.

I believe the Roman Missal is where the new title for the solemnities/feasts came, but I am not 100% sure. I heard from someone on here that that is where they came from.