Tenebrae, or a Service of Shadows, was once part of the Church’s Divine Office during Holy Week. It is a service of psalms and readings, primarily from the Book of Lamentations. As the service ...

This ancient Holy Week service is a sung reflection on the death of Christ that employs darkness and noise. A Tenebrae service takes place in 2019. (photo: Flickr, 2.0 license / Courtesy of the ...

A legend of horror cinema, director Dario Argento’s most famous film might be Suspiria, but he made his name in giallo, Italy’s pulp thriller genre. His 1982 film Tenebrae was more than just a return ...

During Holy Week, amid all the new and artistic celebrations of Christ’s passion that come each year, Cindy de Jong looks forward to one tradition: the Tenebrae service, to be held this year at 11 a.m ...

A special event at Holy Family Catholic Church will keep people in the dark. “It is a very moving, somber experience,” Dr. Tom Bernard said of a Tenebrae service that will be held Thursday at the ...

During Holy Week before Easter Sunday, Tenebrae is a ceremony in Catholic and several Protestant liturgies in which ceremonial candles are gradually extinguished on Good Friday to symbolize the death ...

Back in October of 2013, I was lucky enough to attend the first-ever concert in the United States by the Italian prog-rock band Goblin. The group performed a full set of soundtrack and album classics ...