The Work of God that is recited during the day Thursday, Friday and Holy Saturday, believes more than any other ancient simplicity, most of all it contains many mysteries and sublime, they deserve to be well understood in order to derive best advantage spiritual. In it, the feelings of mourning for the coming passion and death of the Redeemer come together with those of affection towards him, innocent victim, so that one who carefully and prayerfully assist you, feel compunction fill the soul with awe, but also to Supreme comfort and healthy. The Office
of these three days has been the ancient name of Bureau of Darkness: not only because is recited at night, not only because it ends with lights out and is the Office of mourning, there is the funeral of the Redeemer, but also because in three days that they remember the darkness susceptible to the spread on earth the death of the Redeemer and the intellectual darkness that clouds the minds of his enemies who did not recognize him, but also that of his disciples abandoned him.
The large triangular candlestick with its fifteen candles, place, through these offices, the main altar, has a character of intense and mystical symbolism. The fourteen candles on the sides of the triangle, and are gradually extinguished, one after another, represent the eleven Apostles Marie and the remaining three, whose faith and whose fervor is weakened until it turns off within hours of the passion and death of the Lord. The highest candle, one that is at the top of the triangle, represents Christ: it is not extinguished but only hidden, meaning that the divinity of Jesus was never lacking, but it was veiled during the ignominious passion.
At the end of every Psalm, therefore, goes out a candle, with the exception of that which is at the top of the candlestick: the candles are extinguished one by one, as soon as he was near death of the Redeemer, the disciples, from their first cooled fervor, they failed to promises, and almost all, to provide for their escape by flight, leaving their Master, and the very ones who followed him to Calvary, they were overwhelmed with grief. The candle remains lit and that the end is hidden under the altar, there is, indeed, Jesus Christ, he was lighting the world, which for many centuries lay in the darkness and the shadow of death, but men and ungrateful perverse, instead of welcoming it with joy, went to great lengths to obscure and extinguish it. When he believed that he had been extinguished, it was then that, risen from the dead to immortal life, brighter than before, was preached to all nations, and known all over the world. Furthermore, in the death of the Redeemer's soul was separated from the body, but did not separate the deity. This is precisely what means that the candle which, having somewhat hidden, you then review. After the Benedictus, after the Office, the lights are all off to signify the darkness prodigious, that the death of the Redeemer and covered the land, and grim and obstinate blindness which is to remain in anyone close to the love of God .
The Church in these days is in mourning, has only feelings of pain, and who would be moved by the pious faithful. Offices omits any sign of joy, he devotes only sad and painful thoughts. Skip the Invitatory does not conclude the Psalms with the Gloria Patri, does not sing hymns, blessings do not ask, do not read chapters, in short, we can say that you do not think crying and mourn for our sins and the sufferings of the Redeemer.
The small noise (strepitus) that becomes the end of Lauds is the confusion and disturbance which produced the moment of death of the Lord. It obscured the sun the earth shook and trembled and the veil of the Temple was torn from top to bottom, the tombs were opened, they broke the stones seemed to leave the world upside down, and all of nature and resent disturbed. But the Centurion, and many others who, having well understood the voices of great horror and a lot of sense, immediately enlightened, changed in the trial, pricked in their heart, beating his chest with bowed head, went back, thinking about the things they had seen and heard, and sincerely confessed to Son of God what he had seen expire on the cross among so many wonders.
Every hour is over by the same Respice Prayer, in which the Church has recourse to God, asking him to relate with compassion those for whom his Son our Lord was pleased to suffer death. To give strength and substance to her prayers, this prayer ends with the usual conclusion, that it answered to the merits of Jesus Christ. At any other time the people, the first time, you felt with the greeting "Dominus vobiscum, but all those hours in pain, you leave a greeting, not expecting the acclamation, Amen, and the same conclusion it is said in secret, almost in silence to remember the meekness which, without uttering a word and without complaint, Jesus came as the Lamb peaceful death.
of these three days has been the ancient name of Bureau of Darkness: not only because is recited at night, not only because it ends with lights out and is the Office of mourning, there is the funeral of the Redeemer, but also because in three days that they remember the darkness susceptible to the spread on earth the death of the Redeemer and the intellectual darkness that clouds the minds of his enemies who did not recognize him, but also that of his disciples abandoned him.
The large triangular candlestick with its fifteen candles, place, through these offices, the main altar, has a character of intense and mystical symbolism. The fourteen candles on the sides of the triangle, and are gradually extinguished, one after another, represent the eleven Apostles Marie and the remaining three, whose faith and whose fervor is weakened until it turns off within hours of the passion and death of the Lord. The highest candle, one that is at the top of the triangle, represents Christ: it is not extinguished but only hidden, meaning that the divinity of Jesus was never lacking, but it was veiled during the ignominious passion.
At the end of every Psalm, therefore, goes out a candle, with the exception of that which is at the top of the candlestick: the candles are extinguished one by one, as soon as he was near death of the Redeemer, the disciples, from their first cooled fervor, they failed to promises, and almost all, to provide for their escape by flight, leaving their Master, and the very ones who followed him to Calvary, they were overwhelmed with grief. The candle remains lit and that the end is hidden under the altar, there is, indeed, Jesus Christ, he was lighting the world, which for many centuries lay in the darkness and the shadow of death, but men and ungrateful perverse, instead of welcoming it with joy, went to great lengths to obscure and extinguish it. When he believed that he had been extinguished, it was then that, risen from the dead to immortal life, brighter than before, was preached to all nations, and known all over the world. Furthermore, in the death of the Redeemer's soul was separated from the body, but did not separate the deity. This is precisely what means that the candle which, having somewhat hidden, you then review. After the Benedictus, after the Office, the lights are all off to signify the darkness prodigious, that the death of the Redeemer and covered the land, and grim and obstinate blindness which is to remain in anyone close to the love of God .
The Church in these days is in mourning, has only feelings of pain, and who would be moved by the pious faithful. Offices omits any sign of joy, he devotes only sad and painful thoughts. Skip the Invitatory does not conclude the Psalms with the Gloria Patri, does not sing hymns, blessings do not ask, do not read chapters, in short, we can say that you do not think crying and mourn for our sins and the sufferings of the Redeemer.
The small noise (strepitus) that becomes the end of Lauds is the confusion and disturbance which produced the moment of death of the Lord. It obscured the sun the earth shook and trembled and the veil of the Temple was torn from top to bottom, the tombs were opened, they broke the stones seemed to leave the world upside down, and all of nature and resent disturbed. But the Centurion, and many others who, having well understood the voices of great horror and a lot of sense, immediately enlightened, changed in the trial, pricked in their heart, beating his chest with bowed head, went back, thinking about the things they had seen and heard, and sincerely confessed to Son of God what he had seen expire on the cross among so many wonders.
Every hour is over by the same Respice Prayer, in which the Church has recourse to God, asking him to relate with compassion those for whom his Son our Lord was pleased to suffer death. To give strength and substance to her prayers, this prayer ends with the usual conclusion, that it answered to the merits of Jesus Christ. At any other time the people, the first time, you felt with the greeting "Dominus vobiscum, but all those hours in pain, you leave a greeting, not expecting the acclamation, Amen, and the same conclusion it is said in secret, almost in silence to remember the meekness which, without uttering a word and without complaint, Jesus came as the Lamb peaceful death.
