Alleluia, Christ is risen. The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.
An Anglican tradition (it's probably more widespread than that) is that starting with Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent, the "alleluias" are left out of the service. There are a couple of places that we say it, mainly at the fraction anthem ("Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast." with an alleluia at the beginning and the end) and the dismissal ("Let us go forth in the name of the Lord." "Thanks be to God. Alleluia."). It's a small reminder that the joy is dampened while we look forward to the Passion.
When the Easter morning service begins with "Alleluia, Christ is risen." it's a signal of the joy that we find in the resurrection. During the season of Easter (until Whitsunday or Pentecost), we actually double the alleluia at the dismissal. It's a tiny, but neat tradition.
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Date: 2005-03-28 01:26 pm (UTC)The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.
An Anglican tradition (it's probably more widespread than that) is that starting with Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent, the "alleluias" are left out of the service. There are a couple of places that we say it, mainly at the fraction anthem ("Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast." with an alleluia at the beginning and the end) and the dismissal ("Let us go forth in the name of the Lord." "Thanks be to God. Alleluia."). It's a small reminder that the joy is dampened while we look forward to the Passion.
When the Easter morning service begins with "Alleluia, Christ is risen." it's a signal of the joy that we find in the resurrection. During the season of Easter (until Whitsunday or Pentecost), we actually double the alleluia at the dismissal. It's a tiny, but neat tradition.