Comments on: The Liturgies of Holy Week http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/ The Christianity Stack Exchange Blog Fri, 27 Jan 2017 11:19:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: Bruce Alderman http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-89 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:31:00 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-89 Agreed. Tenebrae really helps emphasize the low points of the week, reminding us that the celebrations of Palm Sunday and Easter Sunday are not the whole picture.

]]> By: Bruce Alderman http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-88 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:22:22 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-88 That’s an interesting idea, fasting from Thursday to Sunday. Of course, in most churches that follow the liturgical calendar, we’ve been fasting to some degree since Ash Wednesday–but not to the extent I think you’re talking about.

]]> By: Bruce Alderman http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-87 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:14:52 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-87 The more I learn about it, the more I appreciate how much Sacred Tradition has to teach us.

]]> By: Michael Hollinger http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-82 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:53:06 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-82 @BruceAlderman I’m glad I asked this question! I swear, I didn’t read your post til today. Really!

]]> By: Michael Hollinger http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-81 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:52:08 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-81 Tenebrae is an awesome service. @JonEricson, As Ferris Bueller would say, “I highly recommend it.”

]]> By: Peter Turner http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-80 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 05:36:15 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-80 Boy, it’s crazy how closely the Catholic Holy Week celebrations match up with the Methodist ones, only everything is mixed around. Catholics have tenebrae early in the week. Thursday night is the night we “stay up with Christ”. And stations of the cross probably wouldn’t happen any time after Good Friday.

But the elements are all the same. I for one, applaud the Methodist’s church’s attempt to reclaim Sacred Tradition. It seems like one giant leap toward reunification.

]]> By: Jon Ericson http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/2012/04/02/the-liturgies-of-holy-week/#comment-78 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:27:45 +0000 http://christianity.blogoverflow.com/?p=227#comment-78 We’ve had a Good Friday service for years, but I’ve never heard of the “reverse candlelight” service idea. Sounds dramatic!

My pastor has reminded us that this is Our Week. Christmas has been taken over by the secular world and isn’t really the high point of our calendar. But Easter is our time to shine. (Tune in next week. 😉

One idea that you didn’t mention, but I like is to fast from Thursday evening to Sunday morning as Our Lord did from His Last Supper to (presumably) His Resurrection. Fasting is a little bit of a lost discipline, at least in my circles. When you consider “Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God”*, it seems ungrateful not to taste a part of His sacrifice.

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