Sacred Triduum

And so we begin the sacred journey from death to life.  It's late this year.  The first full moon of spring is late this year. But for those of you who do not follow the keeper's faith tradition, and that includes Cecil, Triduum is a liminal space. We live time differently these three days.  We stop our ordinary tasks and join with the community of believers to be quiet, to pray, to ponder, to listen to old stories told for a new day.  We fast ( but not us cats), we live in a different time zone. 

The keeper says that for decades she prepared the Triduum services and, ironically, found it hard to keep the Feast.  But now others do the planning, the prep, the checking of lists, the trouble-shooting, and she keeps Triduum. And she is very grateful. And so are we.  Alice only spent one Triduum with the keeper while she was still in her preparing role, and Alice says she was gone for three days, only home to sleep for a few hours, and she was blissfully crazed for those days. Then she took a long vacation far far away.  Now she comes home at decent hours, and doesn't leave us after Easter.