25 March 2016
Tenebrae
was more than a tad different this year. The choir sang the entire Stainer Crucifixion Oratorio. WHEW. Talk about a little pressure. I hope the congregation got half as much out of it as we did from singing it. I need to get it out of my head, though, because up next is Mozart's Mass in C Kyrie and Gloria, Hallelujah Chorus, and And the Glory. Oh, and A Song of Praise.
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Unless you did the Matins and Lauds with the 3 nocturns and the Lessons from Jeremiah, the prophet, followed by the Responses and the appropriate Psalms with the readings from St. Augustine, then it's NOT Tenebrae. Just because you have a service on Good Friday night does not make it a Tenebrae service. The only ones who do actual Tenebrae services are the Western Rite Orthodox.
And we forbade him because he was not following us...
Nice retort. Thanks again for priving that liturgically, Lutherans are as guilty of innovation and departure from the inherited western tradition of the church as anyone else. Btw, I listened to Stainer's Passion. What rubbish! Surely, you could have chosen better.
Blessed Lent to you, Chris, and may the Pascha bring you joy.
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