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Holy Saturday - Office of Readings and Morning Prayer |
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Holy Saturday is a day of loss, but also a day of quiet hope. "For you will not leave my soul among the dead, nor let your beloved know decay" (Psalm 15). There is a lovely homily about Jesus descending into hell: "He goes to free the prisoner Adam and his fellow-prisoner Eve from their pains, he who is God, and Adam's son."
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Good Friday - Office of Readings and Morning Prayer |
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In the Liturgy of the Hours on Good Friday Christ appears as King and Priest - reigning from a tree, sacrificing himself. "Your ranson was paid... in the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish" (1 Peter 1:18-19).
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Compline (Night Prayer) for the Easter Triduum |
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The psalm of Compline - Psalm 90 - expresses trust in God in the face of frightening adversity.
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Thursday of Holy Week - Office of Readings and Morning Prayer |
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Although the Easter Triduum begins with the Evening Mass of the Lord's Supper, Thursday's Office of Readings takes up the paschal themes. Melito of Sardis gathers the whole of salvation history into one in his beautiful, if somehat rhetorical homily on the Pasch.
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