Posts Tagged With: Triduum

Lent is over! The Triduum has begun. Maundy Thursday. Good Friday. Holy Saturday.

Tonight at the Newman Center, we celebrated the liturgy, commemorating the Last Supper where God himself established the Sacrament of the Altar, his Flesh and Blood given up for us, as well as establishing the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the Sacrificial Priesthood of the New Covenant.

At the end of the Mass, the Blessed Sacrament was reposed to an altar outside the chapel. Jesus will remain in that tabernacle until Easter, when we celebrate his Resurrection (which we Catholics do for eight days straight! Talk about celebrating). I took the opportunity to visit all six altars of repose in Fargo:

St. Paul’s, Holy Spirit, St. Mary’s, St. Anthony’s, Nativity, and Sts. Anne and Joachim.

I started praying the Rosary at Holy Spirit, praying one luminous and one sorrowful mystery at each stop. I’ll write about that later, but its pretty awesome how well the first ones go together, the second ones go together, etc. I kind of felt like I was watching LOST, there was a flashback from his life that related to the current moment in the Passion, but now I’m getting way off track.

I encourage you to take the time to really participate in the Triduum. It’s something I never did as a Protestant. There was Christmas and there was Easter. That was it. The days leading up to Easter weren’t anything special. But they really are. By participating in the Triduum we draw deeper in unity with Christ, aka, we deepen our relationship with Christ. So I invite you to join your prayers with Christ’s Passion, Death, and Burial over the next few days as we await his Glorious Resurrection!