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elizebeth123
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I am being Baptised and Confirmed at Easter Vigil Mass. There will be 5 adults and 1 child Baptised, and 4 adults Confirmed. How long should I expect the Mass to take? Thanks!
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msugeotech
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Probably a couple of hours. I think that’s about how long ours normally are.
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KarenElissa
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It will depend on whether of not they do all the readings. If they do, I’d guess 3 hours ish, if they don’t do all of them, probably closer to 2.
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The_Fool
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You could ask the person in charge of the RCIA. I think the shortest Easter Vigil Mass I ever saw was about 105 minutes, and that was pushing it. Of course, that year the only priest we had on hand couldn’t really take long masses due to his health, so that might be an abnormality.
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SuscipeMeDomine
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If you’re thinking in terms of how long would you need a babysitter, I’d add some time to the end for a reception. So two to three hours for the Mass and another half hour or more to eat cake and greet well wishers.
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Phemie
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Do you have a reception even when Easter is late and the Vigil is not likely to end before 11:30 p.m.?
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Snerticus
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Mass at my parish is going to be at least 2.5 hours. Another parish I am thinking of going to vigil mass at is 3 hours. So figure on at least 3, then as another poster said, tack on about another 1/2 hour.
God Bless,
Snert
God Bless,
Snert
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SuscipeMeDomine
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We do. This is a night to celebrate!
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maryjk
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Last year it was two hours.
We had about 5-8 being baptized and 10 or so being confirmed.
There was a small reception after.
We had about 5-8 being baptized and 10 or so being confirmed.
There was a small reception after.
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quiet52
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off-topic question, but I’m curious: Why are some people being baptized but not confirmed during the Easter Vigil?
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Snerticus
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LOL last night we had 9 infants baptised, it was soooo cute! I don’t know how many RCIA’s will be baptised this vigil though.
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Deacon_Ed
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Our Vigil Mass has been running about 2 hrs and 45 minutes for the last five years.
Deacon Ed
Deacon Ed
Are these all adults? (As in over the age of seven or so?) If so, they should be confirmed when baptized. Is it possible that these people are very young children who are being baptized at the same time as the parent(s)?
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Phemie
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I agree, but the later the Vigil, the fewer people we find remain afterwards. We have had a get together afterwards for the last 5 or 6 years (we have only had one baptism/reception into full communion in the last 11 years) but this year they don’t seem interested since the Vigil itself will be so late.
I’m sure it depends greatly on the makeup of the parish. For my parish the reception is usually a way for everyone to wind down from the “high” of the Vigil. And I belong to a parish that has always liked to stay around and socialize after Liturgies, including Midnight Mass on Christmas.
What time does it get dark enough for your Easter Vigil to begin?
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Gertabelle
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I attend a small parish with just a few baptisms and confirmations each year. But our Easter Vigil Mass still takes 2.5 to 3 hours. Blame it on the deacon and the choir. We love to sing everything there is to sing, and throw in a few hundred “alleluia’s” and the Exultet, and a chanted arrangement of the Exodus reading, and you end up with a looooong mass. But there is just so much joy that those of us in attendance couldn’t care less.
At the parish where I grew up, which was HUGE, it would take three hours just to get to the “halfway point” of the Mass! But it was all so reverent and beautiful that even as a high school student I couldn’t imagine celebrating Easter any other way.
God bless you this Easter. You’ll be in our prayers!
Gertie
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Phemie
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This year we can’t start until 9 p.m. and by 11:30 not too many are going to want to stay to ‘break the fast’.
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allhers
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That sounds like the least amount I have ever heard of, you must be from a very small Parish, I wouldn’t imagine that Mass would last even an hour and a half. Two hours tops for sure, with everything before included. (now if you’re having some kind of reception afterwards, thats something else), we don’t usually do that as ours last almost three hours, but, we have one of the largest Parishes around, as a matter of fact, it may be the largest.
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Gertabelle
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Actually, my little parish would be amazed to have ten, but our mass still lasts a good 2.5 to 3 hours. The Exultet is sung, and we do all the readings, including a chanting of the Exodus reading, sing all the responsorial psalms, and indulge in the richness and beauty of this most holy of nights.
Incidentally, our mass at the monsatery did not include ANY baptisms or confirmations, yet it still lasted 2.5 hours every year. And afterwards (near midnight) we all joined in the refectory for cookies, pastries, hot wine, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, beer (it was a German-founded community), and chocolate. We would talk and laugh for at least an hour, finally stumbling off to our cells, only to awaken a few hours later for the chanting of Matins. It was glorious
To this day, Easter Vigil without a celebration afterwards just seems wrong.
Gertie
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Lurgid
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She probably was just differentiating the Catechumens from the Candidates, meaning a total of 9 would end up being Confirmed. Five of them doing “the whole spiel” and four of them “only” being Confirmed.
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