All through Holy Week, little sweetheart, I’ve been setting out something to watch or listen to.
Tenebrae is on Holy Thursday and I’d never been to a service until about ten years ago. It’s intensely meaningful.
There are readings and songs and a single candle from a candelabra is extinguished after each other until the sanctuary is in darkness and everyone leaves silently. This year and last there hasn’t been an opportunity to attend one because of the pandemic but a couple of years ago Grace Church downtown. Even before the pandemic, they filmed and broadcast online many of their services and this Tenebrae in particular is lovely and moving. I watched it last year and again tonight.
Holy Thursday is an especially poignant time in Holy Week and all of it just helps me quiet down and think of you, bringing me closer to you, leaving distractions aside, focusing. I listen for you voice and I hear you call.
With all my love forever.
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