triduum

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Tomorrow morning, before entering the Easter triduum, but very closely tied to it, the "Messa Crismale" will take place in every diocese during which the bishop and priests of the diocese renew their promises made at ordination.

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  1. A space of three days.
  2. In the Roman Catholic Church, prayers for the space of three days as a preparation for keeping a saint's day, or for obtaining some favor of God by means of the prayers of a saint.

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  • Tomorrow morning, before entering the Easter triduum, but very closely tied to it, the "Messa Crismale" will take place in every diocese during which the bishop and priests of the diocese renew their promises made at ordination. —  Catholic Online > Daily Readings
  • The sacred triduum will bring us to the same, but different place as we contemplate God's tremendous love for us. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • In this triduum, in all hours up to and including None on Holy Saturday the collect is said after the Psalm Miserere Before reciting the collect in the Office, everyone in deacon's orders or in priesthood says Dominus vobiscum, Et cum spiritu tuo_, and this is said even if the Office be said privately. —  The Divine Office
  • It is not impossible that the second triduum still shared in this extraordinary character as well ... —  Reasons to Believe -
  • Matris Magnae; lacte per triduum pluit, hostiisque expiatum majoribus, —  A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
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  1. Middle Latin, from Latin triduum, a space of three days: see triduan.
 

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