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  The Altars are stripped, the Tabernacles empty and Christ dies on the Cross, consummatum est , it is finished. I found this powerful, from...

  Today is the day of the "Maundy," the mandatum, "the new commandment" of love. Fr. Crouse reflects, via Lectionary Cen...

  The body of Jesus lays in the tomb, and all is still. GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death of thy blessed Son, our Saviou...

It's Good Friday so let's have some Donne : Let mans Soule be a Spheare, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is...

  The Altars are stripped, consumatum est , it is finished, and TS Eliot writes: The wounded surgeon plies the steel That questions the dist...

  Here we are, it's Maundy Thursday and we're faced with two mandates, to "love one another as I have loved you," and &quo...

  The Tabernacles are empty, the Altars are stripped, and Christ lays in the tomb. It seems as though Satan has won, and he must have though...

  One of the things which happens on Maundy Thursday is that the priest gets to wash peoples' feet, as Christ washed his disciples' ...

Today we're looking forward to Maundy Thursday and with it the events of the Last Supper and beyond. Christ washes his disciples&...

The Altars are stripped and the Tabernacles empty, Christ lies in the Tomb. GRANT, O Lord, that as we are baptized into the death...

I read this the other day, somewhere on Zerohedge , it seems appropriate: With no God to worship, men invariably worship the f...

Listen up, heathen. It's Maundy Thursday, so here's a prayer: Almighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night before he suf...

The body of Christ lays in the Tomb. LSP

It's Maundy Thursday, when we commemorate the Last Last Supper and the Institution of the Eucharist, along with the Mandatum to "...

St. Thomas 5th Ave, Altar of Repose. Nice. Some people think that the word Maundy comes from the Latin Mandatum, meaning commandment,...

I wish I could say that Good Friday, and the Triduum in general, somehow become easier as the years go by. But the reverse is true; as ...

Tonight we celebrate the Institution of the Eucharist at the Last Supper and we watch before the Sacrament as Christ's disciples we...