Images from the Triduum around the world, beginning with Good Friday: Click on photos for full captions. There will be some blog posts scattered throughout.

But first – Jen Ambrose on Holy Thursday in China:

Brazil, Saturday:

Another photo and description of the tradition.

Paraguay, Good Friday:

Caracas:

Bolivia:

The Bronx:

Philadelphia:

Haiti:

India:

Brooklyn (the Communion and Liberation event)

Paris:

Jerusalem:

Via Fr. Lawrence, O.P: The Priory of the Holy Spirit, Dominicans (Blackfriars) in Oxford

The Dominican House of Studies in Washington has posted a wonderful 3-minute video of Tenebrae. Gorgeous chant, in both English and Latin, by voices with some echoes in the lower ranges, for which we are very grateful.

Rome:

After the Stations:

Following Jesus along the way of his passion we see not only Jesus’ passion but we see all those who are suffering in the world. And this is the profound intention of the prayer of the Way of the Cross, to open our hearts, to help us to see with the heart.

The Fathers of the Church considered the greatest sin of the pagan world to be their insensitivity, their hardness of heart, and they loved the prophesy of the prophet Ezekiel: "I will take away your heart of stone and will give you a heart of flesh" (Ezekiel 36:26).

Converting to Christ, becoming Christian, meant receiving a heart of flesh, a heart sensitive to the passion and the suffering of others. Our God is not a distant God, untouchable in his blessedness. Our God has a heart, indeed a heart of flesh. He became flesh precisely to suffer with us and to be with us in our sufferings. He became man to give us a heart of flesh and to awaken in us a love for those who suffer, for those in need.

Let us pray to the Lord in this hour for all those in the world who are suffering, let us pray to the Lord that he truly give us a heart of flesh, that he make us messengers of his love not only with words but with our entire life. Amen.