Editing Tenebrae (section)

==== Structure of the original Tenebrae ====
The structure is the same for all three days. The first part of the service is [[matins]], which in its pre-1970 form is composed of three [[nocturns]], each consisting of three psalms, a [[versicle]], a silent [[Lord's Prayer|Pater noster]], and three readings, each followed by a [[responsory]]. The pre-1970 [[lauds]] consists of five psalms, a short versicle and response, and the [[Benedictus (Song of Zechariah)|Benedictus]] Gospel [[canticle]], followed by ''[[Christus factus est]]'', a silent Pater Noster, and the appointed [[collect]]. The [[Gloria Patri]] is not said after each psalm.<ref name="Benzinger1875">[[Catholic Church]] [https://archive.org/stream/completeofficeh00churgoog#page/n178/mode/2up ''The Complete Office of Holy Week According to the Roman Missal and Breviary, in Latin and English'', pp. 184–250; 282–336; 380–418] Benziger brothers, 1875</ref><ref name="Guéranger1870">[[Prosper Guéranger]], translated by Laurence Shepherd. [https://archive.org/stream/liturgicalyear06gura#page/304/mode/2up ''Passiontide and Holy Week'', Volume VI of The Liturgical Year, pp. 304–352; 414–450; 519–546] Dublin, 1870.</ref>

The principal Tenebrae ceremony is the gradual extinguishing of [[Candle#Christianity|candles]] upon a stand in the sanctuary called a hearse.<ref>Leo Kelly, "[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14506a.htm Tenebrae Hearse]," ''The Catholic Encyclopedia'', vol. 7 (New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1910).</ref> Eventually, the Roman Rite settled on fifteen candles, one of which is extinguished after each of the nine psalms of matins and the five of lauds. The six altar candles are put out during the Benedictus, gradually reducing also the lighting in the church throughout the chanting of the canticle.<ref name=Herdt>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kAWH1Ya4rCsC&dq=herdt+%22post+finem%22&pg=PA41 P. J. B. de Herdt, ''Sacrae liturgiae praxis, juxta ritum romanum'' (Vanlinthout, Louvain, 1863), vol. 3, p. 41]</ref> Then any remaining lights in the church are extinguished and the last candle on the hearse is hidden behind the altar (if the altar is such as does not hide the light, the candle, still lit, is put inside a [[candle lantern]]),<ref>[https://www.ceremoniaire.net/guide/jeudi_st/triduum_classique.html#VI.II ''De l'office des Ténèbres, Cérémonies à observer'', 338,3]</ref> ending the service in total darkness. The ''[[strepitus]]'' (Latin for "great noise"), made by slamming a book shut, banging a [[hymnal]] or [[breviary]] against the pew, or stomping on the floor, symbolizes the earthquake that followed Christ's death, although it may have originated as a simple signal to depart.<ref name="Tenebrae"/> After the candle has been shown to the people, it is extinguished, and then put "on the credence table", or simply taken to the sacristy. All rise and then leave in silence.<ref>[[Adrian Fortescue]], ''The Ceremonies of the Roman Rite Described'', 1917, p. 288.</ref>