{"id":66432,"date":"2016-03-18T16:57:57","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T20:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66432"},"modified":"2016-03-18T00:04:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-18T04:04:02","slug":"maundy-thursday-tenebrae-service-of-darkness-at-first-presbyterian-church-of-cazenovia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=66432","title":{"rendered":"Maundy Thursday: Tenebrae Service of Darkness\u00a0at First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"churchfront\"<\/a>On Maundy Thursday, March 24, the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia will hold a\u00a0Service of Tenebrae at 7:30 p.m. Members of the Morrisville Community Church will also\u00a0participate in the choir. The service will be centered on a choral and narrative piece titled\u00a0\u201cTenebrae: Service of Darkness\u201d by Hal H. Hopson. Mary Coburn will be accompanying the\u00a0choral works on her violin. Mrs. Coburn is the string music teacher to students in grades 4 to 12\u00a0and is the Director of the High School Orchestra and String Ensemble.<\/p>\n

The dramatic narrative readings are drawn from biblical passion accounts and the Psalms. There\u00a0will be a celebration of the Lord\u2019s Supper. The cross behind the pulpit will be draped in black.<\/p>\n

The sanctuary will be lit by candles that are extinguished after each of the readings.\u00a0The Service of Tenebrae follows a tradition of the church dating back to the eighth century. The\u00a0word \u2018Tenebrae\u2019 is Latin for shadows or darkness. The service commemorates the final hours of\u00a0our Lord\u2019s life on earth, as he suffered death upon the cross. Two large candelabras will light the\u00a0sanctuary at the beginning of the service. Candles will be extinguished as the service evolves,\u00a0symbolizing the fading loyalty of the disciples and friends of Jesus. The gradual darkening of\u00a0the church sanctuary portrays the diminishing light of the world as Christ was departing from it.<\/p>\n

The service ends in silence with the relighting of the Christ candle.\u00a0The purpose of the service is to recreate the betrayal, abandonment, and agony of the events\u00a0leading to Christ\u2019s death and it is left unfinished, because the story isn\u2019t over until Easter Day.<\/p>\n

Child Care is available during the service. For more information about the Tenebrae Service or other Easter Season celebrations, contact the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia at 655-3191\u00a0or visit our website at www.cazpres.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Maundy Thursday, March 24, the First Presbyterian Church of Cazenovia will hold a\u00a0Service of Tenebrae at 7:30 p.m. Members of the Morrisville Community Church will also\u00a0participate in the choir. The service will be centered on a choral and narrative piece<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,29,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-religion","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-hhu","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/churchfront.jpg?fit=200%2C259&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}