#triduum 2015

[bethestraw]

Something strange is happening - there is a great silence on earth today, a great silence and stillness. The whole earth keeps silence because the King is asleep. The earth trembled and is still because God has fallen asleep in the flesh and he has raised up all who have slept ever since the world began. God has died in the flesh and hell trembles with fear.

From an ancient homily on Holy Saturday

[hospodipomiluj]

I think, if anything, I’m going to go the extra mile these next three days. I’m so tired, so exhausted, so hungry, but it’s almost over. 

So, a few additives to my medieval lent. 

Once the sun sets, no electric lights unless absolutely necessary. 

Maundy Thursday & Good Friday nights I’m going to sleep on my floor with the window open. 

I have to finish Pope Benedict’s second Jesus of Nazareth book by Saturday afternoon. 

No idle Tumblr or internet. I can post things, but no reblogs (so what you’ll all see is my queue). 

Only focus on the things of God -- only music that brings Him glory, only read things about Him, only draw things about Him. 

Prayer. Fasting. Penance. 

[hospodipomiluj]

Tomorrow begins the Triduum. 

I pray that I will be able to fast enough to unite myself with Christ.  I pray that I will die to sin, that my faults and wrongdoings will be nailed to the feet of Christ.  I pray that I will learn from the mistakes of Peter and Judas -- that I will not abandon Christ, nor hand Him over to evildoers, nor deny Him.  I pray that, through the purification of suffering, that I may be truly sorrowful for my sins.  I pray that, come Saturday night, I will rise to new life with Christ. That, as He ascended from the depths of the underworld, and shattered the chains of death&sin, my sins will become part of my former life as a slave to myself. 

I pray that this year, this Triduum, I will become clean again and a perfect daughter for the most perfect Father. 

May we all abandon our sinful lives and throw ourselves at the foot of His Most Holy Cross.