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Why Attend the Easter Vigil?
CatholicMom.com ^ | March 24, 2013 | Deanna Bartalini

Posted on 03/30/2013 9:43:02 AM PDT by Salvation

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A truly beautiful experience.

Plan to attend tonight!

1 posted on 03/30/2013 9:43:02 AM PDT by Salvation
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Easter Vigil Ping!


2 posted on 03/30/2013 9:44:49 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation
I'll be there tonight as well, dragging along my Baptist friend who came with me last year...

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 :-)

3 posted on 03/30/2013 9:46:25 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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4 posted on 03/30/2013 9:48:56 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Good news. What an evangelizer you are!


5 posted on 03/30/2013 9:50:27 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Salvation

I subscribe to the St. Francis of Assissi school of evangelization...Preach the Gospel always. When necessary, use words.


6 posted on 03/30/2013 9:51:41 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Salvation

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!


7 posted on 03/30/2013 9:54:28 AM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God help the Republic but will he?)
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To: Salvation

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.


8 posted on 03/30/2013 10:00:25 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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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.)


9 posted on 03/30/2013 10:31:03 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stand in the corner and scream with me!)
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At our parish we read only three of the OT readings. Always chosen by the priest.


10 posted on 03/30/2013 10:50:35 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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What a memory! Were you singing in the choir then?


11 posted on 03/30/2013 10:51:20 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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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.


12 posted on 03/30/2013 11:12:03 AM PDT by reagandemocrat
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Tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. That is happening in my church this year. A long-time Catholic lady (probably in her late sixties) has her husband, a doctor, converting to the Catholic fatih.


13 posted on 03/30/2013 11:19:36 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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14 posted on 03/30/2013 11:27:21 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Yes, that makes sense. I read that the new Pope reduced one of the services this Holy Week, presumably for similar reasons. You want the congregation to be glad they are there, not to be itching to leave.

For whatever reason, our priest at my present parish seems to enjoy taking as long as possible over everything. Whatever he intends by that, I don’t think it has the intended result—it just makes people long to get out the door. That’s definitely not what you want.


15 posted on 03/30/2013 11:32:24 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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There are 3 which are mandated to be read the other 4 may be read.


16 posted on 03/30/2013 11:48:10 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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Yes, and Anoreth, who was 4, was sitting beside me the entire time in her little Easter outfit. (DP kept having to take Bill, who was 1, outside.) It wrapped up about 3:00, we got a couple hours sleep at our landlord’s house, and hit the road that Easter morning for Oklahoma City. It was sad.

This year is our 20th anniversary in the Catholic Church. Anoreth is 22 now, and little Billy, as was, is 19.


17 posted on 03/30/2013 11:50:34 AM PDT by Tax-chick (Stand in the corner and scream with me!)
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To: pbear8

Gen. 22:1-18
Ex. 14:15 - 15:1
Is. 55:1 - 11
amd the Epistle from Romans

Are these the mandated ones?


18 posted on 03/30/2013 1:05:48 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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I checked and at least 3 from the OT are read, Ex14 must be read but the others may be chosen from the 7 OT readings. I thought for years that Creation must be read but I guess not.


19 posted on 03/30/2013 1:27:26 PM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: Salvation

It is as my parish pastor has said, “the mother of all the vigils”.


20 posted on 03/30/2013 3:06:37 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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