[Dialogue] Good Tenebrae service

[Janice Ulangca]

This morning I found a Tenebrae service in a box in the basement - stuff that's over 30 years old, and probably from our 1974 year in the Rochester staff house of the Ecumenical Institute.  As music director for our church, I'll be meeting with the pastor this week re the Good Friday service, and have been dreading the usual sentimental individualistic blood drenched stuff for that day.  This service is quite good.  Has 8 kinds of "darkness": Of Betrayal, Of Desertion, the Agony of the Spirit, Darkness of Broken Trust, of Disunity, of Light ("men loved the darkness rather than the light" - John 3:19).  Scripture & music that's probably the best in our hymnals to go with.  

I remember that we looked for the "ontological" (this is the way life is) rather than the psychological - and these kinds of darkness I identify with as the way life is.  If I had to guess at the source of this service, I'd guess Dewey Ave. Presbyterian Church (of the Local Church Experiment) in Rochester, NY.  As Jack Spong and those who write him have noted, progressive liturgy is hard to find. This service doesn't get in to "social sin", which would be a whole other area - but does seem several cuts above other services I've seen.

A local clergy friend wants a copy, so I scanned the booklet (complete service for the congregation).  I'll send it to anyone who wants it.  You must send a request to me, not to the dialogue.  That's good procedure, but also essential, because I'll send it to you in 2 Word attachments, which won't go through the dialogue list serv.  If you want to use it, it will need careful proofreading - lots of "scanner typos".

Pax,
Janice Ulangca


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 Janice Ulangca
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Vestal, NY  13850
607-797-4595
aulangca at stny.rr.com
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