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During the Paschal Triduum, the faithful anticipate the dawn of Easter.
The altar of repose at Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini, Holy Thursday 2023 (photo: Bénédicte Cedergren / EWTN)
ROME — The adorned altars of repose exposed throughout the Eternal City call the faithful to enter into the dark night of the Mount of Olives with Christ and to keep watch with him in prayer.
The evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper is the beginning of the sacred days of the Paschal Triduum — the three days recalling the passion, crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ — which will conclude with the joyful celebration of the Easter vigil.
“We see references to altars of repose as early as the 15th century, when the sacred species of the Eucharist were placed in a special tabernacle that was adorned and reserved for prayer following the Eucharistic rite of the Holy Thursday liturgy,” Ashley Noronha, co-founder of the Truth and Beauty Project with her husband, John Noronha, told the Register.
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ROME — The adorned altars of repose exposed throughout the Eternal City call the faithful to enter into the dark night of the Mount of Olives with Christ and to keep watch with him in prayer.
The evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper is the beginning of the sacred days of the Paschal Triduum — the three days recalling the passion, crucifixion, death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ — which will conclude with the joyful celebration of the Easter vigil.
Accompanying Christ to Gethsemane
At the end of the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday, the Eucharist is carried to an altar other than the main altar — an “altar of repose” — with a solemn procession, where the consecrated Hosts are placed and reserved for use on Good Friday, while the famous Pange Lingua hymn is sung.“We see references to altars of repose as early as the 15th century, when the sacred species of the Eucharist were placed in a special tabernacle that was adorned and reserved for prayer following the Eucharistic rite of the Holy Thursday liturgy,” Ashley Noronha, co-founder of the Truth and Beauty Project with her husband, John Noronha, told the Register.
Continued below.
Keeping Eucharistic Vigil at Rome’s Altars of Repose
During the Paschal Triduum, the faithful anticipate the dawn of Easter.
