Holy Week & Triduum at Blackfriars

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"Blessed Jordan, worthy successor of St Dominic, in the early days of the Order, your example and zeal prompted many men and women to follow Christ in the white habit of Our Holy Father. As patron of Dominican vocations, continue to stimulate talented and devoted men and women to consecrate their lives to God. Through your intercession, lead to the Order of Preachers generous and sacrificing persons, willing to give themselves fervently to the apostolate of Truth. Help them to prepare themselves to be worthy of the grace of a Dominican vocation. Inspire their hearts to become learned of God, that with firm determination they might aspire to be 'champions of the Faith and true lights of the world'. Amen."
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"Spy Wednesday" ?
Indeed: the readings at Mass on that day show Judas Iscariot, the 'spy', making preparations to betray the Lord. Hence there is an ancient custom of calling this day 'Spy Wednesday' rather than the more recent 'Holy Wednesday'.
I suppose I do like Fra Angelico's paintings more than I like those by, say, Damien Hirst - but I confess to something of a knee-jerk hostility to the preference for ancient custom over against recent usage. Which is dumb of me, really, I guess. I'd like to hope that we can find God just as well in a world of New Brutalist architecture, sans serif fonts and double glazing as we could in a world designed entirely by Augustus Pugin.
What is the Ecumenical Walk of Witness? Is that some form of Stations of the Cross?
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