Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/04/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:46 -0400, Tina Manley wrote: > Wonder where that tradition came from? Part of the rite for Holy Saturday contains the following from Jeremiah, and is believed to be the source for the tradition of blackening the face: Saturday, April 11, 2009 Tenebrae for Holy Saturday Here beginneth the Prayer of Jeremiah the Prophet Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities. Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand. We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. Okay, that's enough for today!!! :-) -- Ken Frazier <kennybod at mac.com>