{"id":793,"date":"2015-04-02T21:54:41","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T06:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=793"},"modified":"2015-04-03T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T01:05:28","slug":"apr-2-the-power-of-the-tenebrae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"Apr. 2 &#8211; The Power of the Tenebrae"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Apr. 2 &#8211; The Power of the Tenebrae\" data-info-url=\"http:\/\/ct.de\/-2467514\" data-backend-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gftr\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"reddit\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=793\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"colored\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tennebrae.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-794\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/tennebrae.jpg\" alt=\"tennebrae\" width=\"201\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tenebrae\u00a0(Latin\u00a0for &#8220;shadows&#8221; or &#8220;darkness&#8221;) is a\u00a0Christian\u00a0religious service celebrated in the\u00a0Holy Week\u00a0within\u00a0Western Christianity, on the evening before or early morning of\u00a0Maundy Thursday,\u00a0Good Friday, and\u00a0Holy Saturday. Tenebrae is distinctive for its gradual extinguishing of\u00a0candles\u00a0while a series of readings and\u00a0psalms\u00a0is\u00a0chanted\u00a0or recited.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The church where I worship held their Tenebrae service on Thursday night.\u00a0 I was allowed to be a reader to assist in the serving of Holy Communion.\u00a0 The in the visual image of the candles each being extinguished as a different moment of the betrayal of Jesus is read has power.\u00a0 It reminds me that just as those people abandoned him, we also have the option to abandon him.\u00a0 I know I have not been nearly as faithful to Christ in my life as I would like to be.\u00a0 So am using this visual memory of the candles being extinguished as a reminder to be more steadfast to honoring Christ in my life.\u00a0 It is a great way to prepare for Easter.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tenebrae\u00a0(Latin\u00a0for &#8220;shadows&#8221; or &#8220;darkness&#8221;) is a\u00a0Christian\u00a0religious service celebrated in the\u00a0Holy Week\u00a0within\u00a0Western Christianity, on the evening before or early morning of\u00a0Maundy Thursday,\u00a0Good Friday, and\u00a0Holy Saturday. Tenebrae is distinctive for its gradual extinguishing of\u00a0candles\u00a0while a series of readings and\u00a0psalms\u00a0is\u00a0chanted\u00a0or recited. &nbsp; The church where I worship held their Tenebrae service on Thursday night.\u00a0 I was allowed to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=793\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apr. 2 &#8211; The Power of the Tenebrae<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}