How is this practiced in your parish?
I went to Maundy Thursday service last year in my presbyterian church and it was very moving. I hope I can get out of work tomorrow in time to make it to the service tomorrow night. God Bless!
The altar boys were practicing stripping the altar tonight as I finished my Rosary after Mass.
Adoration from after Mass to midnight.
MAUNDY Thursday? Excuse me?
In my parish it is HOLY THursday and due to the construction of the building (and that it's the Cathedral) the Altar of Repose is in the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament. It's not quite big enough in a church that size, but that can't be helped. Anyway, on such occasions, all the candles are lit, not just the red Tabernacle lights, and there are flowers everywhere. I don't remember veils covering the mosaics, but in my old parish, the Altar of Repose was under an Icon that was always covered with a drape. And it was a special altar built just for the purpose. Most churches around here have a separate altar for repose. I actually like it better that way with the main Tabernacle open.
The processional will be to Pange Lingua. There's nothing else to it. Everything is done by the book, but then, Burke is the archbishop here. Everything. Down to the clacker. Clouds of incense. It's really something to see and hear.
Well the priest at my FORMER parish left The Most Blessed Sacrament in what looked like a large wooden salad bowl (that he thought was a ciborium) uncovered in a classroom off the auditorium (large ugly building that they have mass in because the real church is too small for everyone.)