How Was Your church's Easter Vigil

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In the Fransiscan church which I attended, the vigil mass was 4 hours long. We had 86 people baptised, 7 people received into communion, and 85 confirmed. The deacon chanted the exsultet very beautifully. 4 readings from the old testament were read which is the norm in my part of the world. The baptism however, sounded like entertainment show, with people clapping and “woohoo”-ing all over the place. Some newly baptised also add to the excitement by screaming “Amen” or “Alleluia” right after the deacon is done with the threefold drowning. The songs are mostly from the “Breaking Bread 2010”.(I wonder why they use an American book halfway round the world from the US) The chant “Veni Creator Spiritus” was chanted in Latin during the confirmation, but other than that,it’s your usual modern songs, with the exception of Panis Angelicus and Hallelujah by Handel. In the end the priest blessed some hot crossed buns and it was distributed to us as we leave the church. Around 2000 people filled the 800seat church. They do prepare seats outside, but it was raining cats and dogs, and the canopy failed. All in all, i’m quite happy with the mass.
 
Beautiful, just as expected. It always is. Everything was done as written. No major glitches and the minor ones were very minor. 3 hours and absolutely wonderful! 😃 😃 😃
 
It was about what I expected. After 3 years with our current pastor, we know what to expect. No candles except for the Easter Candle and the “elect”. That was a major disappointment the first year he was there, but now I don’t go in expecting candles. Same for the bells during the Gloria. Don’t expect them, and you won’t be disappointed.

The Exutlet was partly chanted, and then the rest was read.

The music was alright.

2 old Testatment readings.

4 people welcomed into the church (2 confirmations and 2 professions).

Incense.

My 2 boys served, and I thought they did a great job.

I love my pastor, and he is very much by-the-book, but he is very much about “simple”. Sometimes I feel at this time of year, it should be more about extravagance and celebration. But I know what to expect. I know we have a large elderly population who is already up past their bedtime when the Vigil wraps up around 9:40. So I’m not too disappointed, and this year it seemed to match my mood well.
 
The Easter vigil is the highlight of the highlight of the year for me. (Lent culminating with the Easter Triduum is precious!)

Our parish has always done a great job using the O.F. Generally speaking, this year was no exception. It was too dark to see the missal and I wasn`t keeping track of all the readings, but going on past experience some would have been omitted and/or truncated.

I would have preferred the Vigil to begin around 11pm so that Mass could be celebrated after midnight, but we didn’t start until after sundown so it was technically Sunday according to the (old?) Jewish custom. Or so I understand.

The Vigil didn’t have all the glory of an E.F. Mass but it was glorious in it’s own way.

UNTIL THE END: After the final blessing Father decided that first the choir and then a list of others required a ‘round of applause’. :mad:

Easter Sunday found me at an FSSP Mass. 🙂
 
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