St. Alban's 2021 Tenebrae Service

St. Alban's Catholic Church is having a 7 p.m. Holy Week Tenebrae prayer service at St. Cecilia’s church, where we are co-located, on Holy Tuesday, March 30, in Holy Week.

The word "Tenebrae" come from the Latin for "darkness" and in this liturgy, the candles on the altar are gradually extinguished with each psalm and reading, until the sanctuary is plunged in darkness. A loud clash of noise is made, which represents the agony of Creation at the moment of the Savior's death, when the earth shook and split the Temple veil in two.