Maundy Thursday at the London Oratory

Photographs taken yesterday at Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper at the London Oratory, including the Mandatum and Procession to the Altar of Repose. (Photos: Charles Cole)

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Roman Sacrament Altars, Holy Thursday 2015

The last time I did this was in 2013; this year I took a different route, and visited some new churches. As always, there were pilgrims from all over the world, praying alongside the clergy and the native Romans. Members of Rome’s Filippino community were doing the stations of the Cross by visiting fourteen different Roman churches; they stopped in at the Russian College while the Matins of the Twelve Gospels was being sung, and I ran into them again later on at San Marcello al Corso. The church of Saint Chrysogonus, run by the Trinitarian Order, deserves a special mention for having very much improved their “sepolcro”, as the Italians call it, from what they had the last time I saw it several years ago, replacing a giant cut-out of Christ and the Apostles at the Last Supper with a much more traditional arrangement. I was also able to visit one of the most famous Sacrament altars in Rome, at the Madonna dell’Orto, with a spectacular display of over 200 candles. The altar at Saint Benedict ‘in Piscinula’ is also noteworthy for being set up in a the room where St Benedict had his cell when he was living in Rome.

Santa Maria Maggiore

Saint Peter in Chains 

The Paschal moon, seen through a gap in the upper stage of the nearby Colosseum.

San Marcello al Corso

Members of the Roman Filippino community, just after finishing the Stations of the Cross 

Santa Maria sopra Minerva (Dominicans)

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Maundy Thursday at the London Oratory in Pictures

Here are some photographs taken at the London Oratory this evening. The first photograph, taken before Mass, shows the Altar of Repose in readiness for the Blessed Sacrament. Photographs follow of Solemn Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the Mandatum, the Procession to the Altar of Repose and the Stripping of the Altars.

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Final Images from Holy Week and Easter

Cathedral of Saint John Berchmans - Shreveport, Louisiana

St. Mary MacKillop Church - Keilor Downs, Victoria, Australia

Holy Week and Easter - Your Photos

Once again, we wish to thank the readers who sent in photographs of their Triduum and Easter services. If we receive more over the coming week, we will have another photopost sometime during the coming week. A reminder that we are happy to receive photographs and links to videos any time, not just for major occasions, but it is not always possible to publish them all.

Ss. Peter and Paul - Würzburg, Germany

There are many more pictures available on the parish’s facebook page.

Gospel on Maundy Thursday

Mandatum

Good Friday

 

The Exsultet on Holy Saturday

The Gloria on Holy Saturday

Immaculate Conception - Omaha, Nebraska (F.S.S.P.)

St Alphonsus - Baltimore, Maryland

Altar of Repose

Main altar after the Easter Vigil

A representation of the Empty Tomb in a side-chapel

St Basil the Great Greek-Catholic Church - Bucharest, Romania

St Mary’s - Remsen, Iowa

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Holy Thursday in Rome

The first three photographs here were taken by our friend Agnese at the FSSP’s Roman Parish, Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini. (I was not able to visit as many churches as I did last year.)

Singing of the Gospel at the Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Post-Communio 

The Sacrament Chapel of St John in the Lateran on Holy Thursday morning. 

The Sacrament Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore before the Mass of the Lord’s Supper begins. 

The high altar prepared for Mass

Matins of the Twelve Gospels at the Russicum

 

The Sacrament Chapel of Santa Maria Maggiore shortly before closing at midnight.

San Martino ai Monti

San Clemente (morning of Good Friday)

San Clemente - Veils for Passiontide are making a notable comeback in Rome.

The Sacrament Chapel of St John in the Lateran (Good Friday morning); Lauds are being sung by the canons of the Basilica.