Easter Vigil Mass

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Phemie said:
Ours didn’t exactly go as planned.

There were no baptisms or confirmations (not surprising, really, only ever had one Vigil Baptism in 17 years and nobody has ever been received into full communion at this time). In a parish of 1500, there were fewer than 100 at the Vigil. Lots of empty seats.

Our cantor is gone for a couple of weeks so there was nobody to sing the Exsultet! and there was no music. Father didn’t want it read so he insisted on a recording – unfortunately sung by a priest and unedited to remove the dialogue. That means that we also found ourselves responding “and also with you” to a machine.

Thankfully we had all 7 readings + Epistle. The Psalms were simply read and Fr. got mixed up in the order – instead of Reading/Psalm/Prayer he did Reading/Prayer/Psalm. Since in the Missal the Gloria comes immediately after the Prayer after the 7th reading, we didn’t get a Psalm for that one. He went directly to the Gloria. I kept thinking, Christ is risen, stop fussing about things you can’t change. But it was disappointing.

The choir acquitted themselves very well a capella for the Ordinary of the Mass and the hymns.
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Answering a machine is indeed a new one on me. But are you still responding “And also with you”???
 
Just about 3 hours at Denver’s Cathedral – it was lovely! 😃

The only thing that was odd to me was being asked to help with usher duties! I arrived about an hour early, and before I’d even found my friend (hi, JC 👋), the head usher stopped me in the aisle and asked if I could stand by the side door handing out candles, starting immediately. How could I say no? 🤷

I have never had anything like that happen to me before, and I kept laughing to myself at the odd turn of circumstances. But I guess the Cathedral is my church as much as anyone else in the archdiocese, so it’s not really THAT odd that I was welcoming people to a church I rarely attend.

The Cathedral choir was AMAZING, as was the organist. And the grandeur of the mass with the archbishop – and seven baptisms – was so fitting to the day.

Blessed Easter to all!

Christ is truly risen!
Christ is risen indeed!

Gertie
 
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