GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVII, Issue 13, 1 April 1909, Page 483

GLEANINGS FOR NEXT WEEK'S CALENDAR

April 4, Sunday. — Palm Sunday. „ 5, Monday. — Of the Feria. „ 6, Tuesday. — Of the Feria. „ 7, Wednesday. — Of the Feria. „ 8, Thursday.— Holy Thursday. „ 9, Friday . — Good Friday. „ 10, Saturday. — Holy Saturday.

Wednesday in Holy Week. On this and the two following days the Office of Teneforae is chanted in those churches in which the presence «)f a sufficient number of priests obtainable. The office consists of a number of Psalms, ■with lessons from the Sagred Scriptures, and the writings of the Fathers of the Church appropriate to the season. The name of Tenebrae (darkness) • is given to the office because, at its close, the lights are extinguished to express the mourning of the Church, and to represent the darkness which covered the face of the earth on the death of our Blessed Lord. Holy Thursday. For a short time to-day the Church puts off her mourning. At the Mass her ministers are vested in white, the hells are heard, the organ peals forth. For a moment she desists from her meditations on the sufferings of her Divine Founder to contemplate the tender love which led Him to institute the Blessed Eucharist on the very night before His Crucifixion. In Cathedral churches the Bishop consecrates the Holy Oils which are used in the administration of certain Sacraments, and also in some ecclesiastical functions.