Tenebrae is a unique and powerful liturgy that starts in dim light and ends in darkness with the extinguishing of candles during each scripture reading. 

We experience the grief of Jesus' painful and sorrowful death on the cross through our senses, by the weight of darkness and shock of noise that mimics the earth quake upon his death. 

Tenebrae ends in darkness and silence, reminding us of the  deep emptiness of our sin-fraught world when Jesus was no longer in it. 

8:30pm, Good Friday in St. Anthony de Padua Church.