Holy Thursday - Vigil Mass and Compline prayers?

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Today is Holy Thursday.
Again, a difference in format,

We have a Vigil Mass tonight, then something called ( I think) Compline Prayers with the Bishop.
The Bishop also has us ask questions, and speaks.
I have no idea how big or formal this is.

I just read this starts Easter Season. And the Octave?

What are Compline Prayers and What are Octaves about?

Thanks.
 
Roseeurekacross said:
Today is Holy Thursday.
Again, a difference in format,

We have a Vigil Mass tonight, then something called ( I think) Compline Prayers with the Bishop.
The Bishop also has us ask questions, and speaks.
I have no idea how big or formal this is.

I just read this starts Easter Season. And the Octave?

What are Compline Prayers and What are Octaves about?

Thanks.
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I am curious as to where you live, as it is Wednesday out here on the West Coast.

Compline is the last part of the Liturgy of The Hours, aka the breviary. It is normally said before bed, or retiring for the night.

The octave is the eight day period the Church celebrates Easter; it starts with Easter Sunday and ends the following Sunday.
 
Roseeurekacross said:
Today is Holy Thursday.
Again, a difference in format,

We have a Vigil Mass tonight, then something called ( I think) Compline Prayers with the Bishop.
The Bishop also has us ask questions, and speaks.
I have no idea how big or formal this is.

I just read this starts Easter Season. And the Octave?

What are Compline Prayers and What are Octaves about?

Thanks.
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It’s not a vigil Mass: it’s the Mass of the Lord’s Supper, one of the most beautiful Masses of the liturgical year.

Compline (a.k.a. Night Prayer) from the Liturgy of the Hours can be suitably said in common after the Mass is ended, probably after the altar is stripped.

Octaves are an eight-day “extension” of the most solemn feasts of the Church, these days there are only two: Easter and Christmas. The solemnity of Easter is so high that its celebration extends right through the next Sunday, such at on all the days from Easter Sunday to the Second Sunday of Easter, the Gloria is said, the Sequence is optionally sung, and there is no penance on the Friday of the Octave.
 
I am in Australia.

Everything closes from Midnight tonight here , in my part of the world, to Saturday 12 am.

Except essential services.

When does the Lenten penance of giving something up for Lent end?

I understand Good Friday is a different case ie here it is abstinance from meat ( or something else if Vegetarian) and fasting.
 
Roseeurekacross said:
Today is Holy Thursday.
Again, a difference in format,

We have a Vigil Mass tonight, then something called ( I think) Compline Prayers with the Bishop.
The Bishop also has us ask questions, and speaks.
I have no idea how big or formal this is.

I just read this starts Easter Season. And the Octave?

What are Compline Prayers and What are Octaves about?

Thanks.
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The Mass you are referring to is the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. This starts the Easter Triduum and not the Easter Season. The Easter Season starts with the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday Night.

Compline is the Night Prayer from the Liturgy of the Hours. Usually, it may be prayed before the reposed Sacrament in the Altar of Repose before the end of the Solemn Adoration at Midnight.
 
The Cathedral was packed. After Mass we processed to the Hall. The Blessed Sacrament was carried there. Adoration prayers then the night ended with Compline, sung by that glorious professional Choir.
 
Roseeurekacross said:
When does the Lenten penance of giving something up for Lent end?
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No one is *required *to give anything up for Lent beyond the fast and abstinence prescribed by the Church. Thus it is a personal practice and ends when you wish it to end. :twocents:
GoGoDiego said:
The Mass you are referring to is the Mass of the Lord’s Supper. This starts the Easter Triduum and not the Easter Season. The Easter Season starts with the Easter Vigil on Holy Saturday Night.
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While I know no one who disputes Easter Sunday (and probably the Vigil) as the beginning of the Easter Season, interestingly the Mass of the Lord’s Supper marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the Triduum, which then extends to and ends after Evening Prayer II on Easter Sunday!

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tee_eff_em said:
No one is *required *to give anything up for Lent beyond the fast and abstinence prescribed by the Church. Thus it is a personal practice and ends when you wish it to end. :twocents:

While I know no one who disputes Easter Sunday (and probably the Vigil) as the beginning of the Easter Season, interestingly the Mass of the Lord’s Supper marks the end of Lent and the beginning of the Triduum, which then extends to and ends after Evening Prayer II on Easter Sunday!

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