Paschal Vigil Forma Extraordinaria

[TomH1]

If the Paschal Vigil is celebrated in the Extraordinary Form must it start after nightfall? I ask because I am aware of somewhere that I am certain will celebrate the Paschal Vigil in the Extraordinary Form and are having it at 6.00 p.m. It will still be fully daylight then. I am certain before Pius XII changed the Holy Week Rites the Vigil was on Holy Saturday morning. I am not sure what time it should be celebrated in the Extraordinary Form.

 

[powerandglory]

Typically EF Paschal vigils start around 11PM. This allows for the Consecration to occur after midnight meaning the Mass is really an Easter morning mass. They are rather long services too. I remember not being home until around 2AM the last time I went.

That said, it can be an evening mass and still fulfill the obligation. Most EF parishes I know also serve surrounding parishes meaning the priests may have to say multiple masses between Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. He’s going to need some rest too.

 

[TomH1]

The place where I saw this posted was not a parish but a Benedictine monastery that follows the traditional Benedictine horarium and celebrates the Mass and Office in Latin.

 

[UpUpAndAway]

Maybe @OraLabora can shed some light on this, then.

Unless The Husband is too ill to be left alone tomorrow evening, I will attend the EF Paschal Vigil celebrated by the ICRSS. It’s scheduled to begin at 8:30pm, about twenty minutes before the sun is predicted to set. I assume the canons know that they’re doing.

 

[OraLabora]

Sorry can’t speak for the EF, as our abbey celebrates the Hours and Mass in the OF (but with Latin Gregorian chant); I know that the 1952 Holy Week changes moved the Vigil to Saturday evening.

Our vigil starts at 9 pm tomorrow. I’m not sure if this year I’ll go to the Vigil or the Easter day Mass. I actually prefer the latter, but after a miserable winter and an equally miserable spring, the forecast is for warm weather on Sunday, so I may go to the Vigil to have Easter Sunday free for outdoor activities. The day Mass is at 11 pm and the abbey is a 35 minute drive so that really slices into the day.

 

[ioannes_pius]

This is what the Angelus Press Missal says:

“The hour for beginning this solemn service should be selected so that the Mass of the Resurrection may begin about midnight; but the Bishop of the Diocese May judge it better for special reasons to begin earlier; nevertheless, this earlier start should preferably be later than twilight, and on no account before sunset.”