tenebre
Tenebrae
Service of Darkness
Sung by the Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle
Music by Victoria, Gesualdo, Nicholson and Thompson
Wednesday, March 23
7:30 p.m.
St. Mary of Perpetual Help Church
1039 West 32nd Street
Chicago, Illinois 60608
For directions to the Church, visit
www.stmaryofperpetualhelp.com.
A free-will offering will be collected.
The Schola Cantorum of St. Peter the Apostle will be the principal choir for the Tenebrae, the Service of Darkness. This will be the sixteenth year that the Schola will sing this beautiful and heartrending liturgy, replete with psalmody, readings and responsories, preparing the people of God for deeper observance of the Paschal Triduum of the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The service of Tenebrae is a form of the two morning hours of the Divine Office—Matins and Lauds—and has a rich history in the life of the Church. In its earliest form, it became a custom for Tenebrae to begin in a church lit by candles, usually 15, clustered on a stand, called the Tenebrae. During the Tenebrae service, one candle is extinguished after each psalm, alternating on either side, moving from the bottom to the top, until only one remains burning, the Easter candle—a vivid foreshadowing of the Easter Vigil Service of Light.
Posted by tripp at March 23, 2005 09:56 AM