There is an interesting post over at the New Liturgical Movement's blog concerning the tradition of dispensing with the "Alleluias" during Lent. I had no idea of an actual coffin-like container which the children would actually bury their handwritten "alleluias" inside and open upon the Feast of the Resurrection. Interesting.
Part 1. Burying the Alleluias: Burning Strawmen, Mourning Choir Boys
Part 2. Burial of the Alleluia in an Anglican-Use Roman Catholic Church in Texas
The Feast and Sunday of St John Climacus
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In the Byzantine liturgy, each of the Sundays of Lent has a special
commemoration attached to it. The first Sunday is known as the Sunday of
Orthodoxy, bec...
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