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Holy Thursday Altar of Repose
My friend Ray (70x7), who painted the icon of Christ the Prisoner which we reproduced into holy cards for the Lenten season, mentioned that I should post a picture of the Holy Thursday Altar of Repose at my church here in York, PA.
Above the tabernacle of the side altar we erected a stand to hold the icon.
If you are not familiar with the Latin tradition for Holy Thursday, after the evening Mass, the Blessed Sacrament is processed from the main altar where Mass was celebrated to another place, sometimes in a church hall or as we did, to a side altar somehow decorated. A solemn vigil is then kept, not going later than midnight. We concluded the evening with Compline/Night Prayer at 11:00 p.m. that evening.
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Bless, Father Jon,
Christ is Risen! Christ is truly Risen!
Beautiful! Prayers for you and your congregation and please keep all of us in yours, my friend!
Many years,
Neil
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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While the Icon is beautiful, we don't call it Christ the Prisoner. He is always free.
Rather, this is one interpretation of Christ the Bridegroom, whence the Western Ecce Homo.
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Christos Ressurexit!
Magnificent.
I am thankful that your Sunday evening Vespers were part of my Lenten discipline.
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You misunderstand the reference. Fr. posted an icon called Christ the Prisoner earlier that the same person who wrote this icon wrote. I am pretty sure a priest knows what Roman Catholics call Christ in various contexts. You might be a little more charitable and a little less anxious to display your superior knowledge of Roman theology on these pages.
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While the Icon is beautiful, we don't call it Christ the Prisoner. Pasisozi, I agree with Jim that your comment, however intended, came across as uncharitable - as well, it was incorrect. While the particular iconic depiction may be a type of Christ the Bridegroom, it is commonly termed 'Christ the Prisoner'. A quick search of the term will find the image so-titled by the Orthodox prison ministries, on several parish websites, and on the OCA website. Neither our brother and friend, Father Jon, who has Eastern ancestry despite that he is a priest of the Latin Church, nor the iconographer, our brother and friend Ray Mastroberte, who posts here as 70x7, would be likely to mistitle an icon. Many years, Neil
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