{"id":234,"date":"2020-04-08T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T04:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/faith\/?p=234"},"modified":"2022-12-16T09:44:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T22:44:44","slug":"ever-wondered-about-our-holy-week-and-easter-triduum-traditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stagnesparish.org.au\/our-faith\/2020\/04\/08\/ever-wondered-about-our-holy-week-and-easter-triduum-traditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ever wondered about our Holy Week and Easter Triduum traditions?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered about our Holy Week and Easter Triduum traditions?<\/h1><\/h1><\/div>

Though for this year there are no congregational gatherings for liturgical celebrations during Holy Week it is important that we remember, reflect and pray during this significant time.<\/p>\n

Tony Worner, the Parish\u2019s Leader of Lay Formation, has kindly prepared the following on this wonderful time:<\/p>\n

Holy Week began on Palm Sunday (April 5) and continues through Holy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and ends with the celebration of the Lord\u2019s Resurrection on that night. It is greatest of all weeks in the Christian church.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Strange as it may seem, Easter Sunday, which is after the Resurrection, is not within Holy Week. It actually begins the seven weeks of the next season in the Church \u2013 the Easter Season.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/span><\/blockquote>
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\u2018The Triduum<\/em>\u2019 (Trid \u2013 you \u2013 oom), sometimes referred to as \u2018the Sacred Triduum<\/em>\u2019, \u2018The Paschal Triduum<\/em>\u2019 or \u2018Easter Triduum<\/em>\u2019, simply means \u201cthree days\u201d (tri = three, duum = days). It is three days, or three celebrations, or three events of Jesus \u2013 his life, death and Resurrection. It begins at sunset on Holy Thursday. (For the Jewish people, the day begins at sunset.)<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Triduum<\/em>\u00a0is celebrated in the liturgies of Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday afternoon and the Vigil on Holy Saturday night. In the Catholic Church, these three celebrations or days are part of the one story, the one event.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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The priest, who begins Mass on Thursday evening \u2013 the Mass of the Lord\u2019s Supper \u2013 with the sign of the cross, symbolically, demonstrates this by not repeating the sign of the cross again until the end of the Mass on Saturday night. He simply finishes Mass on Thursday evening by walking to a place set up for a period of prayer and reflection \u2013 a symbolic \u2018garden\u2019 if you like. He begins and the ends the Liturgy of Jesus\u2019 Death on Good Friday with a simple procession in and out of the Church. He then begins the Easter Vigil with the blessing of the fire at the entrance of Church and processes the Easter or Paschal (which means relating to Easter and\/or the Jewish Passover) Candle into the Church and concludes the ceremony with a special three-fold blessing and sign of the cross.<\/p>\n

The first recording of the term \u2018Holy Week\u2019 was with St Athanasius around the beginning of the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0Century. This was the time when Emperor Constantine made Christianity the religion of the Empire in 313CE and made it unlawful to persecute Christians.<\/p>\n

It was not until 1880 that the Latin term \u2018Triduum<\/em>\u2019 was used. And not until 1955 with Pope Pius XII, that the\u00a0Triduum<\/em>\u00a0became a separate liturgical season and is known as the \u2018Mother of all feasts\u2019 rather than simply a \u2018bridge\u2019 between Lent, which finishes with the beginning of Mass on Holy Thursday, and the season of Easter, which begins on the Sunday.<\/p>\n

While the whole Easter mystery is celebrated from a different point of view on each of these three days, it is not a re-enactment of past events, separated into neat historical or liturgical compartments, but a unified celebration of the mystery of Jesus\u2019 passion, death and resurrection (dying and rising) for us and our world today.<\/p>\n

Here are some links for you to watch and listen to over the next few days that help tell the story of our Easter Celebrations:<\/p>\n

Holy Week in 3 minutes<\/a><\/p>\n

Holy Thursday<\/a>\u00a0(from Catholic.org)<\/p>\n

Good Friday<\/a>\u00a0(from Catholic.org)<\/p>\n

Easter Vigil<\/a>\u00a0(Reflection)<\/p>\n

Easter Sunday<\/a>\u00a0 (from Catholic.org)<\/p>\n<\/div>

Published: 8 April 2020<\/em><\/h6><\/h5><\/div>
\"Megan<\/a><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Author: <\/strong>Tony Worner – Leader of Formation<\/p>\n

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