Tenebrae

[Terrance]

Tenebræ is the name given to the service of Matins and Lauds
belonging to the last three days of Holy Week. This service,
as the "Cæremoniale episcoporum" expressly directs, is to be
anticipated and it should be sung shortly after Compline
"about the twenty-first hour", i.e. about three p.m. on the
eve of the day to which it belongs. "On the three days
before Easter", says Benedict XIV (Institut., 24), "Lauds
follow immediately on Matins, which in this occasion
terminate with the close of day, in order to signify the
setting of the Sun of Justice and the darkness of the Jewish
people who knew not our Lord and condemned Him to the gibbet
of the cross." Originally Matins on these
days, like Matins at all other seasons of the year, were
sung shortly after midnight, and consequently if the lights
were extinguished the darkness was complete.


http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14506a.htm


The Tenebrae Hearse is the triangular candlestick used in
the Tenebrae service. The name is derived,through the French
herse, from the Latin herpex, which means a harrow, and is
the same as that now used in connection with funeral
processions.

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/07162c.htm

Wicks, Sparks, Darkness or gloomy and shadowy, Latin
Tenebrae??



Dave Monroe wrote:
> 
> >From a friend who Knows ...
> 
> "Tenebrae is one of the Three Sisters or Three Mothers
> in occult circles.  The prime source of info here is
> Thomas De Quincey.
> 
> "Tenebrae is Our Lady of Darkness and she weaves the
> veil of shadows, the net to snare all mortals.  She is
> also one of the fractured aspects of the Gnostic
> Sophia and the tapestry she knits is the veil of the
> heavens--the star studded corset.  Her Sisters are
> called Suspiria and Lactarae:  Lady of Sighs (or
> Gasps) and Lady of Tears (or Sorrow).  Logic and
> philosophy imply a fourth sister who can not be
> mentioned."
> 
> Which might explain why there are Dario Argento films
> called Suspiria and Tenebrae as well.  Thomas De
> Quincey's Suspiria de Profundis (1856) I know, but
> hardly well, so I'm not sure if Tenebrae is a
> chracter/element/whatever therein ...
> 
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