THE PRINT EDITION
THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2020
VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74
Triduum: Three Days of Easter by Rick Winterson
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hat is often called “The Triduum” in Latin translates to “The Three Days” in English – the three-day, 72-hour period between Holy Thursday night and the end of the day on Easter Sunday. One of the reasons for this is historical: At the time of Christ, new days traditionally began in the evening around sunset, not at midnight as they do now. The Triduum thus includes Holy Thursday evening, Good Friday, Holy Saturday, and Easter Sunday until nightfall. On the first Holy Thursday, Christ convened t he L a st Supper in a rented, secondf loor room known later as the Cenacle in Jerusalem. It was for the Passover Supper, called
“Seder”. Christ washed the feet of His Apostles, and He later consecrated the Supper’s bread and wine, thus creating the first Mass. The Last Supper is so called because that night, Christ was arrested and then condemned to death by Pilate the next day, as he (Pilate) literally, not symbolically, washed his hands of the whole a f fair. The tria ls t hat Christ met with and endured, as He carried His Cross on the way to be crucified on the first Good Friday, are called the “Stations” of the Cross. There are 14 of these individual Stations along the entire “Way of the Cross Eggs at Easter symbolize, among other things, a new life and Christ’s emergence from the tomb. They are associated with Continued on Page 2
A Palm Sunday Ceremony
Our Lady of Czestochowa Church is located on Dorchester Avenue in South Boston, in what is now known (officially) as “The Polish Triangle”, which straddles the Dorchester/South Boston border between Boston Street and Dorchester Avenue. Polish people are known for their strong Catholic faith, a faith that seemed to grow even stronger after Karol Jozef Wojtyla became Pope John Paul II and the Iron Curtain subsequently fell. This picture was taken on Palm Sunday at an Adoration ceremony. Note that it took place outdoors on the church steps, with proper six-foot “Social Distancing” between the participants.
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