Triduum: The Three Holy Days and Easter Sunday Streams

These three days of Holy Week focus intensely on Christ’s passage from death to life and include Maundy Thursday evening through Easter evening. The keeping of The Three Days has its roots in springtime rituals and in the Jewish celebration of the Passover. The Jewish people observed the passage from winter to spring by slaughtering a lamb and sharing a meal. This meal recalled the saving power of God and their thankfulness not only to have survived winter, but to have been freed from slavery. Christians layered onto this practice the observation of the death and resurrection of another lamb, Christ, the Lamb of God. The date for this observation coincided with the Jewish Passover.

In the second and third centuries, this festival continued to evolve. Pascha (from the Greek, meaning “passage,” as in Christ’s passage from death to new life) became not only linked to the Passover as described in Exodus, but also the to waters of Baptism. Individuals or families were baptized at this time of the year. Thus what began as a Jewish celebration of the Passover became an annual celebration of the Resurrection.

St. Olaf College Ministry invites you to join the Student Congregation and St. Olaf Community in the celebration of this Festival through our on-demand streams of Triduum and Easter services from Boe Memorial Chapel, selected from prior years.

On Demand April 18, 2019 — 8 p.m. (CT)

Maundy Thursday: Evening Service

Matthew Marohl, College Pastor

Boe Memorial Chapel

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On Demand April 18, 2014 — 9 p.m. (CT)

Good Friday: Evening Service

Matthew Marohl, College Pastor

Boe Memorial Chapel

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On Demand July 21, 2016 — 8 p.m. (CT)

Conference on Worship, Theology, and the Arts:
The Great Vigil of Easter

Boe Memorial Chapel

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On Demand April 21, 2019 — 10:30 a.m. (CT)

Resurrection of Our Lord - Easter Day

Matthew Marohl, College Pastor

Boe Memorial Chapel

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