Can there be 2 paschal candles during the easter vigil

[Maxwell03]

Could there be possibly 2 paschal candle blest during the easter vigil BUT only one of them being lit and the other being brought to a chapel that is under the jurisdiction of a parish priest the celebrant of the mass?

 

[magnusbar]

I don’t know, but we had two Easter vigils (don’t know if that’s OK), and therefore two paschal candles. Have no idea where they put the second candle.

 

[CRM_Brother]

Yes, It is alright. If a chapel or religious house has approval from the relevant ordinary (bishop) to use a paschal candle, but does not have a vigil mass, then the candle may be brought to the vigil of the local parish to be blessed and lit.

 

[FrDavid96]

Could there be possibly 2 paschal candle blest during the easter vigil BUT only one of them being lit and the other being brought to a chapel that is under the jurisdiction of a parish priest the celebrant of the mass?

I’m not quite sure what you’re asking with regard to the second candle.

At the Easter Vigil Mass, there must be one, and only one, Pascal candle. (Paschalis Sollemnitatis 82)

P.S. also strongly suggests that small parishes/communities come together to form a larger congregation for the Triduum liturgies.

What the liturgical norms do not address is how each of those small parishes receives its own Paschal candle—of course, each one needs its own.

At the Vigil Mass, there can be only one Paschal candle–that needs repeating. One suggestion offered by the USCCB Committee on Liturgy is that “other” candles be present at the Vigil, but that they are used (more or less) the same way that individual small candles are used. Then, after the Vigil, the other Pascal candles are taken to the smaller parishes are are used throughout the year.

That’s what we do at my parish. We hold the Easter Vigil at the parish church. Someone from the mission church holds a paschal candle during the Mass (but it’s not held by the deacon, and it’s not placed near the ambo, not incensed, etc. etc.). After the Vigil Mass, it’s taken to the mission church to serve as that year’s Paschal candle for the mission.

 

[Maxwell03]

Thank you I just got curious if it was and approved. Because example if someone accidentally breaks the paschal candle there would be a reserved one.

 

[Francis]

There is also a local traditions of lightning small candles from the Paschal Candle and taking them to there houses after the services, those who stay close to the Church ,i guess as Jesus is the Light of the world ,they like to bring them home, and here the parish priest must have done the same at the small chapel.

I don’t think so, the candles are quit thick enough to with stand any impact and robust too,even if its breaks they would fix it immediately with tapes.