{"id":268,"date":"2026-02-12T13:51:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/?p=268"},"modified":"2026-02-12T13:51:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T13:51:13","slug":"burying-the-alleluia-in-2018-tridentine-mass-society-of-madison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/?p=268","title":{"rendered":"Burying the Alleluia in 2018 \u2013 Tridentine Mass Society of Madison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-Lenten season of Septuagesima is rapidly approaching, with Septuagesima Sunday on January 28. As done in 2017, we will continue the restoration of an ancient tradition by burying the Alleluia before the TLM at St Mary\u2019s in Pine Bluff.<\/p>\n<p>From last year\u2019s post:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the Medieval churches of Western Europe, various customs arose around the final \u201cAlleluia\u201d which concludes First Vespers of Septuagesima. Especially in the French and Germanic lands, this often included writing the word \u201cAlleluia\u201d on a cloth or parchment, placing this in a catafalque, and burying it as at a funeral, to be uncovered after the joy of Easter Sunday. This act would be accompanied by hymns and canticles, most notably the hymn <i>Alleluia, dulce carmen<\/i> (O sweet song, alleluia), of French origin. The pre-Tridentine Germanic missals even included a Sequence bidding farewell to \u201cAlleluia\u201d on Septuagesima, <i>Cantemus cuncti melodum nunc alleluia<\/i> (Let us all now sing the melodious alleluia).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Alleluia will be buried beneath the church basement immediately before the 7:30 am Mass at St Mary\u2019s on Septuagesima Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pre-Lenten season of Septuagesima is rapidly approaching, with Septuagesima Sunday on January 28. As done in 2017, we will continue the restoration of an ancient tradition by burying the Alleluia before the TLM at St Mary\u2019s in Pine Bluff. From last year\u2019s post: In the Medieval churches of Western Europe, various customs arose around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latinmassmadison.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}