Good Friday
Some Taize music for you during the Triduum
A blessed Good Friday to you!
I went to my first Maundy Thursday service last night, the first in a (very) long time. It was special—and full of feels. Some fellow newcomers, equally unsure of #alltheAnglicanthings, unexpectedly reminded me of a former coworker I hugely miss. I missed the Taize music in the Maundy Thursday service at the Presbyterian church I attended in college. But I also loved knowing that worldwide, believers gathered to remember the same events. To say the same liturgies. And have done so for a long time…a long time.1
It was such a beautiful illustration of Hebrews 12:1–2 (ESV):
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
… and Revelation 7:9–12 (ESV):
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, “Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!” And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God, saying, “Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen.”
It was a beautiful sneak peek of what we’ll get to enjoy in the future. And tonight, I’ll celebrate Good Friday with my home church—and the worldwide Christian community—and get another sneak peek.
And thanks to the Intarwebz, we can still enjoy that Taize music. Please enjoy, as we continue on in the Triduum.2
I can never say “a long time” without channeling Ben Kenobi. #sorrynotsorry
Learn more about Maundy Thursday and the Triduum in this post I did last year. Here’s the one on Good Friday.