Plan to attend tonight!
Easter Vigil Ping!
I could see the veins pulsing in his temples a bit during the Litany of the Saints, but he also remarked on what a beautiful service it was afterwards...and he's coming back with me this year :-)
Will be singing in our Parish choir tonight and on Sunday morning, it will be the first one for our new pastor Fr. Ben should be great!
I attended it for many years, and sang in the choir. But regretably I haven’t gone recently because it IS so very long. I think it would be possible to keep all the beauty while cutting back on the time a little. We have family here for Easter weekend, not all of whom go to church, and I don’t like to abandon them for almost the entire evening.
I haven’t been in a parish that celebrated the full Easter Vigil, with all the Old Testament readings and psalms, since we moved from San Antonio in 1995. (We spent our last night there at the Easter Vigil.)
After 28 years of marriage, my wife said she wanted to become Catholic, and asked me to be her sponsor. She went through RCIA seven years ago and her Easter Vigil was by far the most blessed day our family ever experienced.
We have not missed an Easter Vigil since.
Vivat Jesus.
It is as my parish pastor has said, “the mother of all the vigils”.
So I went to the vigil mass tonight and the local cable news was inside the church with a camera. Several people around me were disturbed by it. I asked an usher why they were there and he said that they came into the church, uninvited, and went up to the pastor with the camera on to ask if they could film. Father told them they could. This news channel is right up there with CNN and MSNBC. It really got under my skin, but I was there to celebrate mass, not fixate on the rude cameraman who chewed gum inside the church.
Just came back from Easter Vigil at a Carmelite monastery. My hubby serves at the Mass every year, going on about 10-12 years or so now. Beautiful Mass and Happy Easter to all!
A good and blessed Easter to ALL!
I attended, praise Jesus!
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Two hours and fifteen minutes, we got our moneys worth tonight. Three baptisms and Four confirmations, One communion.