Holy Week Liturgy in the Morning

[KnightOfSPUD]

In my TLM parish, they are going to have the Holy Week Liturgy (Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday and Easter Vigil) all at around 8-10 am. We are in the Philippines.

I asked the Ecclesia Dei Society why? (they are based in that parish)

A member told me that even before the reforms, the Liturgy was always celebrated in the morning to give the parishioners time to go out and visit other churches.

Is this true? or does it have something to do with synching with Rome time so that the Liturgy would be celebrated simultaneously.

 

[porthos11]

In my TLM parish, they are going to have the Holy Week Liturgy (Maundy Thursday Mass of the Lord’s Supper, Good Friday and Easter Vigil) all at around 8-10 am. We are in the Philippines.

I asked the Ecclesia Dei Society why? (they are based in that parish)

A member told me that even before the reforms, the Liturgy was always celebrated in the morning to give the parishioners time to go out and visit other churches.

Is this true? or does it have something to do with synching with Rome time so that the Liturgy would be celebrated simultaneously.

Only prior to 1955. After that, the Holy Week celebrations were revised, and are now to be celebrated at their respective times. The 1955 Holy Week rites are what are now in the 1962 Missal.

They should not be celebrating in the morning. One of the reasons behind the revisions was the anomalous timing of morning celebrations, especially where the Easter Vigil is concerned, because it turns the mournful character of Holy Saturday into joy, which is premature.

 

[Chatter163]

Since the Middle Ages, the time of the Triduum liturgies gradually moved back toward the morning. Until the 1950s, this was the norm. In 1951 permission was given to move the Easter Vigil back to after dark, and the liturgy for that was revised. In 1955 revisions were made to all of Holy Week and promulgated; one of the emphases of the revised rites was having them back at their proper times. This continued when the new Order of Mass began to be used in 1970.

For Good Friday, this meant the afternoon. Ironically, here in the US, in recent years it has become common for the Liturgy of the Passion to be celebrated in the evening, with the stations of the cross celebrated during the day. In parishes that use the EF, though, one would typically see the Liturgy of the Passion in the afternoon.

 

[GoGoDiego]

Probably because to accommodate both forms of the rite. In the Holy Family Parish at Quezon City, Philippines, the liturgies of the triduum were done in the morning according to the EF and the OF liturgies were done at its respective times.

That was last year, though, now that its parish priest was relocated to his new assignment as parish priest of Most Holy Redeemer last June 2015.