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Updated: June 29, 2025
Is there any thing in the Tenebrae why I ought not to be present?" "No reason whatever; not a dogma which you do not believe; not a ceremony of which you cannot approve. There are Psalms, at the end of which a light on the altar is extinguished.
Yet the annoyance they give one is almost compensated when, once in a blue moon, in such a superscription-less epistle, one lights upon a sentence very exclusively directed to one's self; when suddenly out of the vague tenebrae of such a letter, there comes, retreating as suddenly, a glance, a grasp, a clasp.
"I mean, apart from his being Pope." "So he was," said Mr. Cunningham, "if not the most so. His motto, you know, as Pope, was Lux upon Lux Light upon Light." "No, no," said Mr. Fogarty eagerly. "I think you're wrong there. It was Lux in Tenebris, I think Light in Darkness." "O yes," said Mr. M'Coy, "Tenebrae." "Allow me," said Mr. Cunningham positively, "it was Lux upon Lux.
"We must soon separate, I fear," said Lady St. Jerome; "we have an office to-night of great moment; the Tenebrae commence to-night. You have, I think, nothing like it; but you have services throughout this week." "I am sorry to say I have not attended them," said Lothair. "I did at Oxford; but I don't know how it is, but in London there seems no religion.
The history of Aquitaine, which was not written by the Benedictines, will probably never be written, because there are no longer Benedictines: thus we are not able to light up these archaeological tenebrae in the history of our manners and customs on every occasion of their appearance.
They were lighted, as S. Jerome observes, in the day time "not to drive away darkness, but as a sign of joy": and therefore the custom of gradually extinguishing them at the office of Tenebrae we may justly consider with Amalarius as a sign of mourning, or of the sympathy of the church with her divine and suffering Spouse.
Vespers are therefore sung immediately after the mass of the Presanctified: they consist of the Our Father and Hail Mary said in secret, of five psalms with their anthems, and the Magnificat with its anthem. At the verse 'Christ became obedient unto death', all kneel down to adore Him, and the Miserere and the usual prayer are recited, but without the solemnity of Tenebrae .
There is the Song of Moses, the Canticle of Zachary, the Miserere which is the 50th Psalm you read and chant regularly in your church the Lord's Prayer in silence; and then all is darkness and distress what the Church was when our Lord suffered, what the whole world is now except His Church." "If you will permit me," said Lothair, "I will accompany you to the Tenebrae."
In offices of three and of nine lessons, the lessons are preceded by the absolutions and blessings as they stand in the ordinarium, except in the Office for the Dead and Tenebrae Offices when they are not said. The Absolution is said immediately after the Pater Noster which follows the versicle and response under the third, sixth or ninth psalm.
The history of Aquitaine, which was not written by the Benedictines, will probably never be written, because there are no longer Benedictines: thus we are not able to light up these archaeological tenebrae in the history of our manners and customs on every occasion of their appearance.
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