“The Three Days”/Triduum Lite – A Reconceptualization
A number of churches in North America have regained a sense of the Church Year since the 1960’s. And that is a good thing. However, lumping the three days of Easter weekend together under the rubric of “The Three Days” is, in my judgment, less helpful than it might be. And that’s because this rubric covers three days of very different theological and historical valency. Being under one rubric, however, tends to obscure the critical differences between them and inclines us to treat them as simply days on which things important to the Christian faith happened. I suggest this is a woefully inadequate approach. And combined with the near universal neglect of Holy Saturday divests what happened on this weekend of much of its meaning and power. Good Friday-Holy Saturday-Easter Sunday are “The Three Days” of Easter wee...