Any traditional Vigil celebration on Holy Thursday?
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In the Catholic world, Holy Thursday is mostly celebrated with a mass, the Mass of the Lord's Supper, where the Washing of the Feet is performed. The liturgical texts concentrate on those events and do not focus on the following episodes (the visit to the garden of Gethsemane and betrayal and arrest of Jesus). And yet, after the mass, the altar is stripped and statues and crucifixes are covered, to prepare for the next day.
I've recently found the celebrations of that day a bit wanting in the sense that, while I go home and do my life, Jesus "is" in the garden praying, being betrayed, arrested, and in prison, while awaiting trial. I feel a kind of vigil is missing, where one "re-lives" that process together with Jesus, in prayer.
I wonder whether there was, or there still is, somewhere, a traditional vigil celebration to "accompany" the Lord during the night. The closest I could find is the Seven Church Visitation , which seems to be ancient, although not very widespread. Still, nothing like a kind of "vigil".
Asked by luchonacho
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Jan 20, 2022, 10:34 AM
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