Friday, April 06, 2012

Triduum begins

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 12:20 AM

Maundy Thursday today. Agape meal, foot washing, Holy Communion, stripping of the altar, dark.

The liturgy went well. I always stress about the dinner, but it came together great. We had a lower turnout than last year, but that happens. The sermon wasn't awful, but it didn't hang together as well as I had written it. I felt like I was rambling. Maybe that comes from writing three sermons in short succession and not being able to focus on one for very long.

Tomorrow is Good Friday. Ecumenical noon service at the local Catholic parish, then a 7 p.m. service at my place. Hopefully tomorrow's sermon will make more sense than tonight's did.

Then Holy Saturday, with a very quiet service at noon.

The Easter Vigil follows at 6 a.m., a festive champagne brunch, and the the Easter Day service.

I can deal with my MT and GF sermons not following script, as long as my two Easter sermons do.

Here's hoping you have a blessed Triduum.

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2 comments:

Lady Anne | 6:51 PM, April 07, 2012  

Gosh! I haven't even thought about a Sunrise Service in eons. (We used to have an Easter Vigil, but it was late Saturday evening.) It's one thing to do a Sunrise Service when the rectory is across the parking lot, but our last three rectors have lived approximately twenty-five miles away from the church.

When I was growing up, my grandmother always made my sister and me eat dinner either in our slips, or with a tea towel around our necks. Mind you, I went to a boarding school, and was perfectly capable of eating dinner there without making a mess, but apparently this talent disappeared the moment I crossed the family threshold. The Easter I was a senior is highschool, my boyfriend came to church with us and then to breakfast at the house, and I was TERRIFIED my grandmother would decked me out in a dishtowel, but after looking me over *very* carefully, she let it pass.

Whew!

Reverend Ref + | 12:16 AM, April 08, 2012  

I think grandma would have been mortified if you had come out in front of your boyfriend in only a slip and tea-towel in her house. :)

Have a blessed Easter.

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