This evening, being the eve of Septuagesima, sees the cessation of the use of “Alleluia” until Easter in traditional Catholic and Orthodox liturgical usage.
The New Liturgical Movement has a good article about this custom and its various expressions, including a recording of the tenth century hymn as translated by John Mason Neale traditionally sung on this day in many places as an accompaniment to the custom of literally burying the “Alleluia”, at The Dismissal of the Alleluia
I have posted before about this symbolic act in
Burying the Alleluia in 2012 and Burying the Alleluia ( again - I was not being very original ) in 2014, and did so again last year with Burying the Alleluia ( still not very original ), which has links to those two previous posts. At least this year I have shown some originality, as did those who came up with this evocative custom in the medieval period.
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