Favorite Feast, Solemnity or Mass

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Throughtout the liturgical year, what is the Mass that you eagerly anticipate the most and why? I thought about making a poll, but there are so many possibilities I knew I would leave someone’s favorite out.

I am torn between two, but will make a choice. I like the Christmas Vigil Mass, because it is the first time to sing Christmas music. Everyone loves to sing the carols and we go through most in the book. All the kids are happy and exited. Finally, we top it off by having the Posadas (a hispanic custom) come into church at the end of Mass as start their procession.
 
Mine would be the Easter Triduum, the great Liturgies of the Evening Mass of the Lord’s Supper, the Veneration of the Cross and the Easter Vigil. I led the choir for our local shrine during these days, and it was a wonderful esperience. We played to organ joyfully on Holy Thursday for the Entrance to Gloria, then chanted the Mandatum antiphons then the organ quieted down for Communion, will we went all a’ capella by the time of the Transfer, chanting the Pange Lingua in its traditional Gregorian form.

All of Good Friday was solemn, a’ capella, with the haunting strains of O Sacred Head and Sing My Tongue the Glorious Battle, to Stabat Mater. Finaly we opened our Easter Vigil with a’’ capella, then slowly the organ came to life, then by the time of the Gloria, BOOM! lights turn on, organ at max, and Easter has come!

Man, that was a great, great service for us. Not to mention of course this is the crowning glory of the liturgical year. We dignified it with Latin and Greek and Gregorian chant because of this.
 
You got it! I was going to say the Easter Vigil, but you are correct, the Easter Triduum is one event, celebrating the one Pascal event in several contiguous liturgies, punctuated by periods of adoration, grieving, and waiting. But the culmination - the return of the Light, the welcoming of new members in the Church, the proclamation of salvation history, the Eucharistic celebration from which all our sacramental life has its source, like, wow, as one of our newly baptized said last year, coming up out of the water.
 
Year-to-year, no contest: The Easter Triduum! :bounce:

Once-in-a-lifetime: Those Masses at which I received the sacraments of First Holy Communion, Confirmation, Matrimony (I don’t remember my Baptism, but I doubt it was in the context of a Mass) :bounce:

Third choice: Any Mass at which I receive the Body & Blood, Soul & Divinity of the Lord in the Eucharist. :bounce:
 
My favorite is the Easter Triduum for almost all the reasons posted before mine.🙂
 
Apart from the Easter Vigil, my no-holds-barred favorite is the Solemnity of Christ the King at the end of the liturgical year.-mike
 
  1. The Easter Triduum
  2. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
  3. Christmas Mass at Midnight.
  4. The Annunciation of the Lord
  5. Ash Wednesday
 
  1. Easter Triduum
  2. Corpus Christi (now the Solemnity of the Body and Blood)
    3.Christmas
  3. Pentecost
  4. Ascension
  5. Assumption.
 
As I think about it, my favorite Church celebrations are connected to my conversion. Like the other posters, every year I look forward to the Triduum. I have found this to be such a powerful and sacred celebration. It always reminds me of my reception into the Church, which was such a holy and exciting time. (My pet peeve is that colleges in my area do not schedule their Spring Breaks around Holy Week any longer, so I usually have to attend classes and teach on Holy Thursday and Good Friday–argh!)

I also have a special connection to the Feast of the Holy Family, which was being celebrated at the first Mass I ever attended. And being newly married, I have developed a personal devotion to the Holy Family.
 
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