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• TENEBRAE (Lat. for " shadows," " darkness ")

TENEBRAE (See also:

• LAT

Lat. for " shadows," " darkness ")  , the name for an See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office sung in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic churches on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, See also:

• THURSDAY

Thursday, and See also:

• FRIDAY (A.S. frige-dreg, fr. frige, gen. of frigu, love, or the goddess of love—the Norse Frigg,—the dreg, day; cf. Icelandic frjddagr, O.H. Ger. friatag, frigatag, mod. Ger. Freitag)

Friday of See also:

• HOLY

Holy See also:

• WEEK (from A.S. wicu, Germanic *wikon, probably=change, turn)

Week . The name is derived, according to Durandus (Ration., See also:

• LIB

lib. vi. cap . 72, n . 2), from the fact that " the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church on these days cultivates darkness (tenebras colit): firstly because it is in sorrow and grief on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of the See also:

• LORD
• LORD (O. Eng. hldford, i.e. hldfweard, the warder or keeper of bread, hlIf, loaf; the word is not represented in any other Teutonic language)
• LORD, JOHN (1810-1894)

Lord's See also:

• PASSION (post-classical Lat. passio, formed from pati, passus, to suffer, endure)

Passion, and because for three days it celebrates his exequies since for three days he was dead; secondly, the office of See also:

• TENEBRAE (Lat. for " shadows," " darkness ")

Tenebrae symbolizes the darkness that See also:

• FELL
• FELL, JOHN (1625-1686)

fell on the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face of the See also:

• EARTH
• EARTH (a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Erde, Dutch aarde, Swed. and Dan. jord; outside Teutonic it appears only in the Gr. 'pq'e, on the ground; it has been connected by some etymologists with the Aryan root ar-, to plough, which is seen in
• EARTH, FIGURE OF
• EARTH, FIGURE OF THE

earth while the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

Sun of See also:

• JUSTICE (Lat. justitia)

justice was hung upon the See also:

• CROSS

cross," &c . The falling darkness is symbolized by a See also:

• PECULIAR

peculiar and singularly impressive ceremony (see See also:

• LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL USE OF

LIGHTS, CEREMONIAL) .