Friday Links: April 10, 2020

A few links on this somber Good Friday.

5 Ways to Worship This Triduum and Easter:

Here are livestreaming options, from several time zones, for this year’s Sacred Triduum and Easter liturgies.

Writer Maggie Gallagher is Executive Director of the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, which was founded by the Archbishop of San Francisco, Salvatore Cordileone. Under Gallagher's direction, the institute has sponsored many popular events related to the Church and the arts (such as the "René Girard and the Catholic Artist" event reviewed here) and has commissioned several notable works of sacred art, including composer Frank La Rocca's Mass of the Americas and James Matthew Wilson's poem cycle River of the Immaculate Conception. The institute receives no Church funding, and Gallagher has taken a 50% pay cut during this time of sheltering in place when planned programs were necessarily put on hold and donations have diminished.  While sheltering in place, Gallagher has pulled together a useful guide with schedules and links—for all of us who are acutely feeling deprived of participation at Masses and other Triduum services during Holy Week and face an unprecedented church-less Easter.

Good Friday meditation on Christ’s Passion with the Crown of Thrones at Notre-Dame de Paris

Starting at 11:30 a.m. local time in Paris (5:30 a.m. Eastern time in the U.S.), probably before you read this, Paris Archbishop Michel Aupetit will lead a meditation on Christ’s Passion from the nave of Notre-Dame Cathedral with the Crown of Thorns exposed for veneration behind the Pietà. The anniversary of the devastating fire is coming up this coming week on April 15, and many held their breath until they learned that the reliquary of the Crown of Thorns was rescued.

Vespers of April 15, 2019 at Notre-Dame de Paris

Of historical interest! One liturgical year ago, on Monday of Holy Week 2019, an unusual Vespers service was sung at Notre-Dame de Paris just before the fire. So what you can see in the linked video is how the cathedral looked during the very last event held at the cathedral—only minutes before it went up in flames. The service was held on April 15, 2019. If I've got the times right, Vespers started at 5:45, lasted 27 minutes (length of the video), and ended just a few minutes before the fire started at 6:20. They could have barely have left the cathedral by then!

Roseanne T. Sullivan

After a career in technical writing and course development in the computer industry while doing other writing on the side, Roseanne T. Sullivan now writes full-time about sacred music, liturgy, art, and whatever strikes her Catholic imagination. Before she started technical writing, Sullivan earned a B.A. in English and Studio Arts, and an M.A. in English with writing emphasis, and she taught courses in fiction and memoir writing. Her Masters Thesis consisted of poetry, fiction, memoir, and interviews, and two of her short stories won prizes before she completed the M.A. In recent years, she has won prizes in poetry competitions. Sullivan has published many essays, interviews, reviews, and memoir pieces in Catholic Arts Today, National Catholic Register, Religion.Unplugged, The Catholic Thing, and other publications. Sullivan also edits and writes posts on Facebook for the Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship, Catholic Arts Today, the St. Ann Choir, El Camino Real, and other pages.

https://tinyurl.com/rtsullivanwritings
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