Liturgy for the Three Great Days - Triduum
The liturgies for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter can be found on the General Synod web site under commissions. Click here
Liturgies from the General Synod site are also here:
The liturgy for Good Friday can be found on the Perth Diocesan site under Worship Resources and then under Liturgy and Music Commitee (Litmus). Click here
Liturgy for Good Friday is also here:
Powerpoint Liturgy
These are ppt files from this year. They include the slides that illustrated the sermons.
Last year’s:
Triduum Easter 9.30am and Baptism 2009
Triduum booklet for the people
Three Days to Live
A flier to hand out in the parish about the Triduum Three Days to Live
Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Day 2009 in the parish
“Why do people in churches seem like cheerful, brainless tourists on a packaged tour of the Absolute? The tourists are having coffee and doughnuts on Deck C. Presumably someone is minding the ship, correcting the course, avoiding icebergs and shoals, fueling the engines, watching the radar screen, noting weather reports radioed in from shore. No one would dream of asking the tourists to do these things. Alas, among the tourists on Deck C, drinking coffee and eating doughnuts, we find the captain, and all the ship’s officers, and all the ship’s crew. The offers chat; they swear; they wink a bit at slightly raw jokes, just like regular people. The crew members have funny accents. The wind seems to be picking up. On the whole, I do not find Christians, outside of the catacombs, sufficiently sensible of conditions. Does anyone have the foggiest idea what sort of power we so blithely invoke? Or, as I suspect, does no one believe a word of it? The churches are children playing on the floor with their chemistry sets, mixing up a batch of TNT to kill a Sunday morning. It is madness to wear ladies’ straw hats and velvet hats to church; we should issue life preservers and signal flares; they should lash us to our pews. For the sleeping god may wake someday and take offense, or the waking god may draw us out to where we can never return.”[1]
This booklet began life as weekly inserts in the Pew Sheet written to say something about the Sunday liturgy. Do we wonder what we are doing? Are we ‘sufficiently sensible of the conditions’? Does the liturgy give us life?
[1] Annie Dillard Teaching a Stone to Talk Harper Collins 1982 p45
This leaflet provides information on how the the three great days of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter are celebrated in the parish. These are the three great days of the Christian year. They are called the Triduum and they are the Christian passover celebrating the heart of our faith, the journey from death to life, the Paschal mystery that we proclaim at every eucharist: Christ has died. Christ is risen. Christ will come again.
