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KathleenElsie
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This Vigil Mass is special to my family this year. 
My husband of 39+ years is to become a full member of Holy Mother Church. As a family we will ALL receive CHRIST for the first time.:extrahappy:
Also I am the sponsor or a wonderful young woman that will be baptized, confirmed and receive CHRIST also.
My husband of 39+ years is to become a full member of Holy Mother Church. As a family we will ALL receive CHRIST for the first time.:extrahappy:Also I am the sponsor or a wonderful young woman that will be baptized, confirmed and receive CHRIST also.
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lampstand
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I would tend to say no, this is the one day for which Vigil does not meet it, because of the status of Easter as a Holy Day of Obligation. Easter is special in itself. However, other people probably know more about it than me. I might not be on the mark.
Easter is the most important day of the year. I would say to go anyway. If for some medical reason or other vital cause, a person can’t be near a church, I would suggest they contact a priest and ask for help.
Easter is the most important day of the year. I would say to go anyway. If for some medical reason or other vital cause, a person can’t be near a church, I would suggest they contact a priest and ask for help.
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Joannm
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The Easter Vigil IS the most important Mass of the entire year. It is the major celebration of the Resurrection (Easter) and lasts about two hours or longer. It is not your normal Saturday night vigil mass. In fact it must begin after sunset which is some places means after 9PM. It is the most beautiful mass of the year and all the stops are pulled. It most definatly counts for Easter Sunday because it is the FIRST Mass of Easter.I would tend to say no, this is the one day for which Vigil does not meet it, because of the status of Easter as a Holy Day of Obligation. Easter is special in itself. However, other people probably know more about it than me. I might not be on the mark.
Easter is the most important day of the year. I would say to go anyway. If for some medical reason or other vital cause, a person can’t be near a church, I would suggest they contact a priest and ask for help.
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Guitar
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Yay!! My parents were married about that long before my mother became a full member. It wasn’t very long before she died and I remember well Dad’s happiness at their receiving communion together for the first time. Congratulations (or whatever the appropriate good wishes are)!!This Vigil Mass is special to my family this year.
Also I am the sponsor or a wonderful young woman that will be baptized, confirmed and receive CHRIST also.
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hamburglar
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Yes, it does. I greatly prefer the Easter Vigil, getting to witness people receiving the Sacraments of Initiation. It is very beautiful as well, and plus, I don’t have to get there an hour early to beat the Chreasters for a seat.
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Phemie
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puzzleannie
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your understanding is not correct. the Easter Vigil IS the Paschal celebration of the Holy Day, which begins at Sundown on Holy Saturday.I would tend to say no, this is the one day for which Vigil does not meet it, because of the status of Easter as a Holy Day of Obligation. Easter is special in itself. However, other people probably know more about it than me. I might not be on the mark.
Easter is the most important day of the year. I would say to go anyway. If for some medical reason or other vital cause, a person can’t be near a church, I would suggest they contact a priest and ask for help.
this is NOT the same as the anticipated Sunday Mass held in many places on SAturday evening. This is the VIGIL of the Resurrection and in fact is supposed to not end until the early morning hours when the Resurrection was accomplished. Beginning at sundown rather than midnight is a concession.
Better to ask does Mass on Easter Sunday fill the obligation if one is unable to attend the Easter Vigil.
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Phemie
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It bears repeating that the usual Saturday evening Mass is NOT a vigil Mass. Vigil Masses have their very own sets of readings, different from the Mass of the day. The usual Saturday evening Masses are ‘anticipated’ Sunday Masses, not Vigil Masses.
There are only a few Vigil Masses through the year: Vigil of Christmas; Easter Vigil; Vigil of Pentecost; Vigil of Peter and Paul, Apostles; Vigil of Assumption of Mary; I thought there was a 6th one but I might be mistaken.
There are only a few Vigil Masses through the year: Vigil of Christmas; Easter Vigil; Vigil of Pentecost; Vigil of Peter and Paul, Apostles; Vigil of Assumption of Mary; I thought there was a 6th one but I might be mistaken.
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wanner47
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The Easter Vigil service has a special place in my heart. It was the Easter Vigil Mass at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, MN that brought me to the Catholic Church!
I had been attending RCIA very reluctantly prior to that time (my husband was the one who wanted to convert; I was attending RCIA just so I could learn more about the new denomination he was so infatuated with), but the Vigil service just blew me away and made me see the beauty and majesty of the Mass.
We’ve tried to attend the Easter Vigil service at the Basilica every year since then, but sadly this year we won’t be able to make it – it’s just too far to travel with a newborn baby. We’re not sure if we’ll attend a Vigil mass this year because that might be too long for our three-year-old to handle; we may just attend an Easter morning service instead.
I had been attending RCIA very reluctantly prior to that time (my husband was the one who wanted to convert; I was attending RCIA just so I could learn more about the new denomination he was so infatuated with), but the Vigil service just blew me away and made me see the beauty and majesty of the Mass.
We’ve tried to attend the Easter Vigil service at the Basilica every year since then, but sadly this year we won’t be able to make it – it’s just too far to travel with a newborn baby. We’re not sure if we’ll attend a Vigil mass this year because that might be too long for our three-year-old to handle; we may just attend an Easter morning service instead.
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Phemie
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I love the Easter Vigil, unfortunately it’s not happening in our parish this year.
Our pastor decided to only have 1 vigil, at the parish 30 miles away where he is administrator. That parish community is another culture and worships in a language none of us understand. He’s admitted that he does no planning, they wing it. If some of us show up they might have a bilingual celebration and some of us would be asked to read.
I’ve decided to go to the Easter morning Mass where things have been prepared and not ‘winged’.
Our pastor decided to only have 1 vigil, at the parish 30 miles away where he is administrator. That parish community is another culture and worships in a language none of us understand. He’s admitted that he does no planning, they wing it. If some of us show up they might have a bilingual celebration and some of us would be asked to read.
I’ve decided to go to the Easter morning Mass where things have been prepared and not ‘winged’.
Yes, the Easter Vigil fulfills the Sunday obligation. My own Bishops’ Conference has made that very explicit in our Ordo. But as stated earlier, universal canon law explicitly states that Mass on the previous evening fulfills the obligation. The interpretation of a conceding law is always according to its widest sense.
However, I would attend the Easter Sunday Mass just to hear the Sequence.
However, I would attend the Easter Sunday Mass just to hear the Sequence.
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Joannm
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Yeah, but if you go to the Vigil you get to hear the Exultet!
Right. But of course, I’ve been assuming that we do go to the Easter Vigil.
Each liturgy has its perks, and of only we stop thinking first of “obligation” we can actually appreciate the beauty of the Easter Masses, vigil and daytime.
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BfloPolska
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So why is there such big PR surrounding Christmas? I’m not trying to be a wiseapple here…one would think that since the resurrection is the one crucial thing that bridged humanity and God, and marked the triumph over sin and absolute death, that Easter would be the biggie. I have never understood this. Or is it just because the atrocious animators from the Rankin-Bass (Rank 'n Crass!
) cartoon studios don’t have as much merchandising fodder in Easter as they do in Christmas?Blessed be,
Polska
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Joannm
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Because Christmas has become secularized.So why is there such big PR surrounding Christmas? I’m not trying to be a wiseapple here…one would think that since the resurrection is the one crucial thing that bridged humanity and God, and marked the triumph over sin and absolute death, that Easter would be the biggie. I have never understood this. Or is it just because the atrocious animators from the Rankin-Bass (Rank 'n Crass!
Blessed be,
Polska
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fnz2thrght
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so lets not clue in the rest of the world then. Well, we can clue them in to the Resurrection but I"m quite happy to keep Easter non-commercial. Christmas is “so big” because it has a lot to offer people that has nothing to do with religion. Easter, not so much. Which is fine. Keep it religious, keep it sacred. We should Thank the Lord that it has largely remained a minor holiday to the secular world (minus a few baskets of candy).So why is there such big PR surrounding Christmas? I’m not trying to be a wiseapple here…one would think that since the resurrection is the one crucial thing that bridged humanity and God, and marked the triumph over sin and absolute death, that Easter would be the biggie. I have never understood this. Or is it just because the atrocious animators from the Rankin-Bass (Rank 'n Crass!
Blessed be,
Polska
I have this argument with some friends every years; people who are atheists/pagans etc celebrating easter. I tell them they aren’t celebrating Easter if they’re not celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord. They’re celebrating something else but it sure isn’t Easter.
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BfloPolska
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I’m afraid it’s getting that way though. Case in point: I live around the corner from a shopping center called Boulevard Mall. Until this year, they’ve had this awful animatronic teddybear display called 'The Boulevard Bear Band" which has these Chewbacca-looking things singing carols in between nagging every last passer-by to get their behnds to customer service and buy a mall gift certificate, or announcing a one-hour-only special at Neckties-R-Us, garbage like that. For the first time to my memory, they’ve brought the cheesy display out for Easter; and now while I sit over a coffee waiting for my husband to come pick me up (my bus stops there and he works across the street) I have to listen to these life-size bears tell me to buy a gift certificate in between the song about Peter Cottontail and the one about bonnets and parades. The mp3 player does not drown this noise out. It beats in a person like a pulsebeat: Buy…buy…buy.
If you think I’m a barrel of laughs now, wait until Christmas!
Blessed be,
Polska
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Pixie_Dust
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I prefer the more politically correct “Birth and Resurrection Society”
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