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Holy Week candle-snuffing service
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tenebrae
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Tenebrae ( Latin for "shadows" or "darkness") is a Christian religious service celebrated in the Holy Week within Western Christianity , on the evening before or early morning of Maundy Thursday , Good Friday , and Holy Saturday . Tenebrae is distinctive ...
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Tenebrae \Ten"e*br[ae]\, n. [L., pl., darkness.] (R. C. Ch.) The matins and lauds for the last three days of Holy Week, commemorating the sufferings and death of Christ, -- usually sung on the afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, instead ...
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Githwings rinse the party with blood, and bears and tenebrae leave them depleted and men broken and crying unfound in darkness and mules fall and excavations fail and there are drownings and indigens who trustlessly murder but those are all other moments.
And probes of various sorts, some with complicated tenebrae of straps.
The Tenebrae had turned it into a charnel pit well before the Iconoclasts razed it, and when the forces of the Accord burn a world, it stays burned!
Ten months ago, when the monstrous Durham Red had managed to get her foul body dragged upright out of the grave, the Tenebrae had billowed out of their hiding places and laid waste to entire systems in her name.
Had Antonia been on Shalem at the time, she would no doubt have been ordered on a punitive mission, combining forces with some of the other stations to deliver the Tenebrae fleets a crushing blow.
The next it was full of jump-flares and huge, slab-sided Tenebrae battleships.
Had the Tenebrae followed them through jumpspace, they could have taken the base with ease.
After all, Harrow was a mutant, a member of the Tenebrae itself, and he looked more human than she did.
He was convinced it was not connected to the Tenebrae, but was linked to some other, far older form of worship.
The Tenebrae have to be disabused of the notion that you are their Messiah.
He used to be a member of the Tenebrae, but now he is the loyal companion of Saint Scarlet of Durham.
Remember the monks at Maria Laach, the plainsong of Tenebrae on Good Friday.
And Queens, of course, 0 alarmed Tenebrae, not to mention Princesses, yes Stupidity even afflicts those, you would think perfect, Creatures as well.