No Eucharistic adoration Triduum

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My church offers Eucharistic adoration every day of the year. Someone is always there protecting the eucharist, and present to share in prayer, even at 2am. So I was a bit surprised to hear that there would be no adoration during Triduum…Is this a common tradition? Thanks!
 
Indeed. This is most appropriate. The tabernacle will even be empty for a time during the Triduum and Mass may not be said on Good Friday. Our focus is entirely upon the Triduum.
 
Is it from Holy Thursday night until Easter? I have forgotten.
 
But Jesus died on Good Friday and was not resurrected until Sunday (Easter) morning.
 
Yes, but it’s just Holy Thursday to represent us being in the Garden with Jesus before He is crucified.
 
So after Holy Thursday Eucharistic Adoration does not take place on Friday or Saturday and begins again Sunday afternoon is what I am asking.
 
I know our parish has it all night on Holy Thursday at a special tabernacle set up in our social hall in remembrance of being with Jesus in the Garden and praying with him unlike the original disciples. This ends Friday morning though.
 
The tabernacle should to be empty before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. All remaining Hosts should be consumed by Holy Wednesday (unless if in the Cathedral, the Mass of the Chrism is to take place on Holy Thursday morning – in that case, all the Hosts should be consumed after that Mass), or if it can’t be done, put away in the rectory. The Eucharist is taken away, reminiscent of the Passion and Death our Lord will undergo.

For this reason, perpetual adoration/daily adoration is temporarily suspended from Holy Thursday up until Our Eucharistic and Risen Lord goes back to the tabernacle after the Communion on Easter Vigil. Some parishes repose the B.S. in the Adoration Chapel on Holy Wednesday night, others just after 12pm on Holy Thursday.
 
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This is a different case, though.

Yes, it is still adoration, but not with Jesus exposed in the Blessed Sacrament.

The ciborium containing the Blessed Sacrament is reposed in a special tabernacle away from the altar after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. That is called the altar of repose, and it calls to mind the hours of prayer spent by Our Lord in Gethsemane before being arrested.
People adore the Lord in the reposition tabernacle until midnight, where the adoration period ends.But the Blessed Sacrament stays there until it is given as communion on Good Friday.
 
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My church offers Eucharistic adoration every day of the year. Someone is always there protecting the eucharist, and present to share in prayer, even at 2am. So I was a bit surprised to hear that there would be no adoration during Triduum…Is this a common tradition? Thanks!
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Yes. That’s exactly what is supposed to be done.

There is a period of adoration (with the Blessed Sacrament in a pyx, not a monstrance) after the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday night, which ends no later than midnight. Other than that, there is no Eucharistic adoration until Easter Sunday.
 
It may depend on your parish. Adoration could begin after the Easter Mass on Holy Saturday night - assuming that people are available.

Our parish has Perpetual Adoration; we have some adoration after Holy Thursday evening Mass. I don’t recall if it ends at 10 p.m or possibly as late as midnight.

Christ was captured some time in the evening after the Seder Meal, and after the agony in the Garden. I don’t recall that any of the Gospels set a specific time he was captured; but it is possible it was before midnight.
 
We have Perpetual Adoration too, but
I am pretty sure it is suspended from late evening on Holy Thursday until the afternoon of Easter.
 
It is a rule of the Church.

There is to be an Altar of Repose following the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. Any public Adoration ceases until after the Easter Vigil. In fact, that is something for parish staff on the Easter Vigil checklist, find out which priest will be re-opening the Chapel after the Vigil.
 
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We have Perpetual Adoration too, but
I am pretty sure it is suspended from late evening on Holy Thursday until the afternoon of Easter.
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It need not be “afternoon” as such. Adoration may resume anytime after the Easter Vigil Mass has ended.
 
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We have Perpetual Adoration too, but
I am pretty sure it is suspended from late evening on Holy Thursday until the afternoon of Easter.
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It need not be “afternoon” as such. Adoration may resume anytime after the Easter Vigil Mass has ended.
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In our church it always resumes after the
last Mass ends on Easter morning which is usually around 12:30 or 1pm.
Thanks for the clarification. I love the Easter vigil. This will be the last Easter vigil our priest will be celebrating at our church.
 
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