Triple Candlestick (Catholic Church)
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A triple candlestick, also known as reed, ''tricereo'', ''arundo'', ''triangulum'', or ''lumen Christi'', was a
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object prescribed until 1955 in the
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, held on
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morning. In the Easter Vigil
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, the
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or
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lights each of its three
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in succession, chanting each time in ascending tones, " Lumen Christi" ("The light of Christ"), to which the choir answers " Deo gratias" ("Thanks be to God"). From one of the candles on the triple
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, the
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is afterwards lit during the chanting of the '' Exsultet''.''Missale Romanum'' (Marietti, 1921), pp. 177–183 In 1955 the triple candlestick was abolished in the
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. Since then, the Paschal candle is lit directly from the Paschal fire at the beginning of the Easter Vigil mass.


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