{"id":87102,"date":"2016-03-23T15:19:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=87102"},"modified":"2016-03-23T15:47:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:47:05","slug":"rehearsals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/rehearsals\/","title":{"rendered":"Rehearsals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>he thing about Holy Week is that its liturgies &#8211; if they are to be done well and worthily &#8211; require practice and rehearsal. We had two on Saturday (for Palm Sunday and Easter Vigil), and I&#8217;m going to one for Holy Thursday in about an hour. We&#8217;ll probably sneak in a quick one before Tenebr\u00e6.<\/p>\n<p>Friday is the rehearsal for Good Friday, and then on Saturday another for the Vigil. That&#8217;s a lot of practice. It can sometimes get long and exasperating &#8211; what Andrew Casad once called &#8220;a joyful frustration&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I guess what I&#8217;m saying is that I can certainly empathize with these Altar Servers. Mind you, I&#8217;d still probably kill &#8217;em.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/rehearsals\/boat\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-87103\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"87103\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/rehearsals\/boat\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?fit=467%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"467,640\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"boat\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?fit=467%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?resize=467%2C640\" alt=\"boat\" width=\"467\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-87103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?w=467&amp;ssl=1 467w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?resize=109%2C150&amp;ssl=1 109w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?resize=240%2C329&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 467px) 100vw, 467px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thing about Holy Week is that its liturgies &#8211; if they are to be done well and worthily &#8211; require practice and rehearsal. We had two on Saturday (for Palm Sunday and Easter Vigil), and I&#8217;m going to one for Holy Thursday in about an hour. We&#8217;ll probably sneak in a quick one before Tenebr\u00e6. Friday is the rehearsal [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":87103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-holy-days"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/boat.jpg?fit=467%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-mES","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":88400,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/holy-week-busy-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":87102,"position":0},"title":"Holy Week, Busy Week","author":"Thom","date":"12 April 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year I take vacation during Holy Week. 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And of course, the Holy Triduum is essentially one giant liturgy\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Chant&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Chant","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/chant\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Easter-Vigil-Christus-Regnat.png?fit=864%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Easter-Vigil-Christus-Regnat.png?fit=864%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Easter-Vigil-Christus-Regnat.png?fit=864%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Easter-Vigil-Christus-Regnat.png?fit=864%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":90882,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/schedule-for-holy-week-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":87102,"position":5},"title":"Schedule for Holy Week","author":"Thom","date":"09 April 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"following is the Holy Week schedule for the parishes of Holy Rosary and Visitation in Tacoma, Washington. It's less jam-packed than previous years, but there's still a lot here! Wednesday Tenebr\u00e6 is not to be missed. 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