Triduum - Part 2

Let's review... as a first year seminarian, I am still very much a member of the laity.  As an instituted Acolyte, I am the least extraordinary minister of the Eucharist and am allowed to serve at the altar.

Going into the Triduum, I knew that I would be playing the organ on Holy Thursday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday.  That's been my job for the last 30 or so years, and there was no reason to change that now.  The music director was amenable, so we went with that plan.  I let the pastor and liturgy committee know that I would be available on Good Friday (the organ is silenced)  for any role they needed.  They did not need, so I sung with the choir on Good Friday. 

I suspect that the same type of arrangement will take place next year as well.  It is likely that will be my last time at my home parish for the Triduum.  The following year, my third year, I will probably be assigned to another parish for the year, and their needs would come first.  It is all rather nebulous now, but it will become clearer in the future.

I must confess that I learned a lesson in humility during the Triduum.  I expected to be on the altar on Good Friday.  Most of my classmates served every Mass of the Triduum...I played the organ and sang in the choir.  God's plans are not our plans.  I need to meditate on that much more often.  It is not about me, it is about God.