How is a Lutheran Tenebrae service conducted?

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Are you looking for the specific rubrics?

Typically, black is the liturgical color. Black vestments, altar coverings, etc. It’s also usually conducted solely by candlelight in many parishes. Many also observe the practice of slamming a book or other heavy object to symbolize the stone being placed over the tomb of Christ. No talking before or after the service is standard, too.
 
TriuneUnity said:
Are you looking for the specific rubrics?

Typically, black is the liturgical color. Black vestments, altar coverings, etc. It’s also usually conducted solely by candlelight in many parishes. Many also observe the practice of slamming a book or other heavy object to symbolize the stone being placed over the tomb of Christ. No talking before or after the service is standard, too.
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Often no music, either.

Something they used to do in the church of my youth; after the sounding of the tomb being sealed, a trumpter, outside of the sanctuary, would play “Jesus Christ is Risen Today”. A symbol of hope in the ressurection, that the sealing of the tomb is not the final act. Quite moving.

Jon
 
JonNC said:
Often no music, either.

Something they used to do in the church of my youth; after the sounding of the tomb being sealed, a trumpter, outside of the sanctuary, would play “Jesus Christ is Risen Today”. A symbol of hope in the ressurection, that the sealing of the tomb is not the final act. Quite moving.

Jon
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Another thing I forgot is there is also a stripping of the altar, where all of the cloth and objects are removed, leaving it bare, to symbolize the stripping of Christ’s clothes.
 
Thank you for this information. Sounds like a beautiful Liturgy. Happy Easter.
 
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