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The Benedictine Touchstone Spring 2007 BENEDICTINE Spring 2007 TOUCHSTONE Benedictine Nuns • St. Emma Monastery • Greensburg, PA 15601 Phone: (724) 834-3060 • Fax (724) 834-5772 • Website www.stemma.org • Email [email protected] Christ has died. Christ is risen! Alleluia! Alleluia! 2 Benedictine Nuns Prioress’ Reflection By Mother Mary Anne Noll OSB By the outside our chapel) where we spend time God’s throne! Jesus Christ, our King, is time you with Jesus before the Blessed Sacrament risen!” receive this until 10:30 pm. During the Liturgy of the Word, we have newsletter, the On Good (good for us—not on the all seven of the Old Testament readings grace-filled surface very good for Jesus) Friday, we followed by the sung responsorial psalm week that we again begin after each and call HOLY with Tenebrae. the prayer. The will be before The Good During this day of sacred silence Epistle and the us. We Bene- Friday Liturgy and prayer, we marvel at the Gospel from the dictine nuns are so blessed to participate is held at 3:00 lengths that God did go to prove New Testament in the fullness of the liturgy (except for the pm. During follow. rite of baptism or receiving people into full this day of His love for us. Since we are communion with the Church) celebrated in sacred silence a monastery, we our chapel. You will read our Holy Week and prayer, we have no one prayer schedule but we would like to have marvel at the lengths that God did go to baptized or received into the Church. We, you “share” in the last four days more prove His love for us. of course, anticipate the renewal of our deeply. Tenebrae also begins Holy Saturday’s baptismal vows celebrated during the Although the Sacred Triduum (three The Liturgy of the Hours at 6:00 am and Liturgy of Baptism. days) formally begins with the Eucharist lasts the usual 90 minutes. The Liturgy of the Eucharist then celebrated Holy Thursday evening, we The Easter Vigil begins after dark on follows as usual. have maintained the singing of the Holy Saturday night and consists of four On Easter Sunday itself, we celebrate Tenebrae (the offices of Vigils the feast of the Resurrection with and Lauds combined) beginning the Liturgy of the Hours with the 6:00 am Holy Thursday. antiphons from the Resurrection Tenebrae (Darkness) refers to accounts and lots of Alleluias. the darkness after extinguishing Our Eucharist is at 8:00 am. one after the other of the 14 Easter has an octave: besides candles (adorning the two sides the Scriptures at Mass each day of the triangular shaped top of a referring to the Resurrection, we tall wooden stand). After the last sing the Easter antiphons at all the psalm, the white central Christ Hours all week. candle is carried out and the How have we prepared for the church is in darkness symbolizing renewal of our baptismal vows on darkness overcoming the Light. Easter? Have we looked at Lent After a brief time of prayer, the as a time to do things and practice Christ light is returned to the attitudes that we want to continue candle stand and the Christus factus est is basic elements: the Service of Light, the after Easter in our desire to be more Christ- sung in Latin. Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of Baptism like? Or have we chosen “things” to give “Christ became obedient for us unto and the Liturgy of the Eucharist. up during Lent but that we can re-assume death” (Philippians 2:8ff). The Gregorian To begin the Service of the Light with on Easter? chant melody so powerfully expresses the blessing of the new fire and Paschal How will you spend Holy Week? We these Scripture verses. On Good Friday candle, we gather at the cross just inside hope that our experience will entice you to “even to the death on the cross” is added. our drive way and then process into chapel enter more deeply into the liturgical life of On Holy Saturday, “therefore God has also following the Paschal candle. The the church this week. Blessed Holy Week exalted him and given Him the name that celebrant sings three times, “Chirst our and Easter! is above all other names” completes the Light” and we respond, “Thanks be to God” quote and the reality that we celebrate. while our candles are lit from the Paschal After the Eucharist on Holy Thursday candle. The sung Exsultet powerfully evening, we Process with the Blessed proclaims, “…Exult, all creation around Sacrament to the Atrium (large room “… Exult, all creation around God’s throne. Jesus Christ, Our King, is risen!” Benedictine Nuns 3 XtáàxÜXtáàxÜ exyÄxvà|ÉÇexyÄxvà|ÉÇ The Gospel during the Easter Vigil is taken from Mark 16:1-7. in-place helped prevent grave robbers (people were often buried We have all known the long walk from the death bed of a loved with possessions) and kept the bodies safe from wild animals. one to the funeral home and to the cemetery. We know about and We can so identify with these women. They knew how things believe in the Resurrection so we have hope were: their dead one was dead, the stone that our loved one lives on in God. Do we give God a chance with barred the entrance to the tomb and they But Mary Magdalene, Mary who was the could not move it. mother of James, and Salome only knew that the stones that keep our prob- We know that when the women their loved one had died. Since they had lems in place? looked up, they saw that the stone had not been able to properly anoint the body been rolled back and it was very large. with spices before the sacred Sabbath, they We know how things are. We have rose early to make their long (the actual distance is immaterial), our eyes fixed on the problems that confront and confound us. sad trek to the place where Jesus had been laid. Who can change them? We know what relationships are torn or Who would roll back the stone? After all, the huge stone that tenuous, who suffers from what addictions, what medical problems covered the entrance to a tomb had been positioned on a slight and financial problems have no human answer. Some of these grade so that it could roll against the tomb opening. This stone- situations we have seemingly known for ever. In Matthew we learn that “an angel of the Lord came down from Triduum and Easter Sunday Schedule heaven, rolled back the stone and Holy Thursday: sat upon it.” I picture that angel 6:00 a.m. Tenebrae (Vigils and Lauds together) having fun with that stone. He 9:00 a.m. Terce first moved it easily away from the 11:45 a.m. Sext/None entrance, picked it up as if a large 4:00 p.m. Vespers balloon, twirled it on the tip of his 7:00 p.m. Mass of the Lord’s Supper right index finger, threw it some Adoration of the Blessed distance, sat on it — and beamed! Sacrament Do we give God a chance with (until 10:30 p.m.) the stones that keep our problems Good Friday: in place? Do we lift up our eyes 6:00 a.m. Tenebrae (Vigils and again and again to see if a stone Lauds together) has been moved in any direction, 9:00 a.m. Terce ever so slightly? 11:45 a.m. Sext/None Do we notice when God has 3:00 p.m. Celebration of the Lord’s nudged a boulder and someone Passion went for help, a job was found, the 7:00 p.m. Compline peace of Christ was experienced in the midst of deteriorating Holy Saturday: medical conditions, or family 6:00 a.m. Tenebrae (Vigils and Lauds together) members finally spoke to one 9:00 a.m. Terce another – and give thanks? 11:45 a.m. Sext/None May our celebration of Jesus’ 4:00 p.m. Vespers Resurrection this year enable us 8:30 p.m. Easter Vigil to “look up,” to watch for, and to wait for stones to be moved and Easter Sunday: removed in our lives. 6:25 a.m. Lauds 7:45 a.m. Terce 8:00 a.m. Eucharist ALLELUIA! 11:45 a.m. Sext/None 5:00 p.m. Vespers 7:15 p.m. Vigils 4 Benedictine Nuns Encounter: St. Benedict of Nursia (480-547) What a wonderful Church we have to offer the Benedictines the opportunity to celebrate the Solemnity of the “Transitus” (the passing over from this world to eternity) of St. Benedict on March 21. This monk, who on July 11 we will again celebrate as Patron of Western Monasticism, was never a priest. He believed the world was too busy and gave us St. Benedict writing his Rule a rule to live by. It was relevant then and is today with over 8,000 monks and at Montecassino in 529. 16,000 Benedictine nuns and sisters worldwide. Here at St. Emma in the Fatima Chapel fourteen stained glass windows picture the most important events and miracles in Benedict’s life reported by Pope St. Gregory the Great in the second Book of his Dialogues. “To be ‘one spirit’ with Christ is the secret center of every miraculous action of the saint, and it is towards this mystical center that Gregory directs the aspiration of his reader as well as his own.” (A.de Vogüé, The Life of Saint Benedict, Foreward ) Benedict’s Rule for Monks, can give us an even deeper understanding of this saint.
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