Posted on 04/11/2009 5:34:47 PM PDT by Salvation
Eastertide Overview
Theme: |
The Resurrection |
Color: |
White or Gold |
Mood: |
Joy |
Symbols: |
empty tomb, the Paschal Candle, egg, peacock, lamb, phoenix, bells, butterflies, flowers |
Length: |
Easter Sunday - Vespers of Trinity Sunday |
Easter, which begins this Season, is the greatest Feast of the year for Christ is risen! The alleluia, which was omitted from the Mass since Septuagesima, returned at Vespers on Holy Saturday, and is now heard after every Introit, Antiphon verse, and Response. The Vidi Aquam replaces the Aspèrges, and the Regina Coeli replaces the Angelus. The Paschal candle remains lit in the Sanctuary until Ascension Thursday, and like the Christ Candle during the Twelve Days of Christmas, we have a Paschal Candle in our homes, too, until the Ascension (see the page on Easter Sunday for more on the Paschal Candle). ...and the Lenten fast is over! During this Season, we are obliged to receive the Eucharist to fulfill the Church precept that we receive the Eucharist at least once a year. During Lent, most of us have already fulfilled the precept to go to Confession at least once a year, but if we haven't, we can do that now. During the Octave of Easter, we greet each other (and even answer our telephones) with the triumphant "Christus resurrexit!" (Christ is risen!) to which comes the response "Et apparuit Simoni, alleluia" (and appeared unto Simon, alleluia!). This joyous greeting totally crystallizes the mood of this season. This triumphant attitude is also shown by the replacing of the Angelus with the Regina Coeli throughout Paschaltide. A note on terminology: The word "Easter" is actually a word rooted in the name either of an alleged Teutonic goddess (Eostre) or, more probably, from the name "Eostur" meaning the "season of rising" and indicating springtime. It is only used in the English language. It came into use because the month of April was known in Anglo-Saxon countries as easter-monadh, and Eastur became an old Germanic word meaning springtime. Other languages have different names for Easter -- "Pascha" (Latin and Greek), "Pasqua" (Italian), "Pascua" (Spanish), "Paschen" (Dutch), Pasg (Welsh), etc. -- all of which derives from the Hebrew word "Pesach" meaning "Passover." The point is that the claim that "Easter is a pagan holiday" because of the word "Easter" is ridiculous. The English word for it might have pagan origins deriving from Eostre and/or the word for springtime, but the Solemnity is rooted in the Old Testament Pesach which was fulfilled at the Crucifixion which gave us the fruits of the Resurrection. In addition, all the names for the days of the week are "pagan" in origin, too. Sunday is named for the Sun; Monday for the Moon; Tuesday for god Tiu, Wednesday for Woden, Thursday for Thor, Friday for Freya, and Saturday for Saturn, so anyone who balks at celebrating "Easter" because of its "pagan origins" had better not refer to the days of the week by their English names!
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This is a bit confusing. The chart at the top of your post shows that the length of Eastertide is from “Easter Sunday - Vespers of Trinity Sunday”. However, most sources that I have read (including one or two that you link to later in your post) state that Eastertide runs for a length of 50 days, from Easter Sunday to Pentecost Sunday. The chart at the top of your post seems to have added an extra week to Eastertide that most sources do not.
So which is it?? I have to replace The Angelus with the Regina Coeli during Eastertide, according to my New Saint Joseph Baltimore Catechism. Hence, I need to know if I should keep doing the Regina Coeli until Trinity Sunday, or if I should switch back to The Angelus after Pentecost Sunday - a week before that.
It can all be very confusing at times!!
Thanks for the reminder about the Regina Coeli. I totally forgot it.
This prayer, which dates from the twelfth century, is substituted for the Angelus during Easter Season.
In Latin |
In English |
Regina coeli, laetare, alleluia: Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.
V. Gaude et laetare, Virgo Maria, Alleluia, R. Quia surrexit Dominus vere, alleluia.
Oremus: Deus qui per resurrectionem Filii tui, Domini nostri Iesu Christi, mundum laetificare dignatus es: praesta, quaesumus, ut per eius Genetricem Virginem Mariam, perpetuae capiamus gaudia vitae. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. R. Amen. |
Queen of Heaven rejoice, alleluia: For He whom you merited to bear, alleluia, Has risen as He said, alleluia. Pray for us to God, alleluia.
V. Rejoice and be glad, O Virgin Mary, alleluia. R. Because the Lord is truly risen, alleluia.
Let us pray: O God, who by the Resurrection of Thy Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, granted joy to the whole world: grant we beseech Thee, that through the intercession of the Virgin Mary, His Mother, we may lay hold of the joys of eternal life. Through the same Christ our Lord. R. Amen. |
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No problem !! Happy to be of service.
Do we do the Regina Coeli until Pentecost Sunday, or until one week after that, Trinity Sunday?? I have always done it until Pentecost Sunday, but your post has given me pause (so to speak!!)
I’ve always done it until Pentecost too.
Fisheaters is a more traditional site, so perhaps it used to be through Trinity Sunday.
Works with me !!
However, I finally flipped through the 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal that we use most commonly at the Mass I attend (at a Diocese Parish, with the TLM done by the Institute of Christ the King, Sovereign Priest). The missal is published by Angelus Press (the copy I have was printed in 2004). For what it's worth, I found a section in it entitled "Eastertide". The very first sentence in this section reads "Eastertide begins at Easter and ends on the Saturday after Pentecost".
Oh great, a THIRD opinion!!!
: )
I suppose I will just show this to Father at some point, and as his opinion.
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