Saying "Christ is Risen"

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Christ is Risen!

My wife and I sponsored a couple coming in to the Church at last night’s Easter Vigil. We therefore attended Mass at their parish, not ours. However, we know both the priests at this parish and have attended Mass their frequently.

I was frustrated that not once in the entire liturgy did anyone say “Christ is Risen.” (Christos Anesti). Some of the readers seemed poorly prepared and the liturgy seemed to bump along at times. This is the Easter vigil. This should be the most solemn, most amazing Mass of the year.

I came out of the Orthodox Church and at the Easter Liturgy everyone is crying out to each other “Christ is Riesn. He is Risen Indeed.”

Since returning to the Roman Catholic Church, I’ve always been the one to initiate that proclomation and I am always answered wtih things like “Uh, yeah.” or “He sure is.” or if I’m lucky a half hearted “Amen.” And this is from priests. I have not had one Catholic priest ever answer me when I say “Christ is Risen” with “In Truth He is Risen.”

Here is the song everyone sings over and over again at the end of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy and into the night. It is sung with vigor and enthusiasm.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And on those in the tombs, bestowing life.
 
ICXCNIKA said:
Christ is Risen!

My wife and I sponsored a couple coming in to the Church at last night’s Easter Vigil. We therefore attended Mass at their parish, not ours. However, we know both the priests at this parish and have attended Mass their frequently.

I was frustrated that not once in the entire liturgy did anyone say “Christ is Risen.” (Christos Anesti). Some of the readers seemed poorly prepared and the liturgy seemed to bump along at times. This is the Easter vigil. This should be the most solemn, most amazing Mass of the year.

I came out of the Orthodox Church and at the Easter Liturgy everyone is crying out to each other “Christ is Riesn. He is Risen Indeed.”

Since returning to the Roman Catholic Church, I’ve always been the one to initiate that proclomation and I am always answered wtih things like “Uh, yeah.” or “He sure is.” or if I’m lucky a half hearted “Amen.” And this is from priests. I have not had one Catholic priest ever answer me when I say “Christ is Risen” with “In Truth He is Risen.”

Here is the song everyone sings over and over again at the end of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy and into the night. It is sung with vigor and enthusiasm.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And on those in the tombs, bestowing life.
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ICXCNIKA,

I’m sorry, but if you were to meet me coming out of mass this morning I wouldn’t’ve know what to say myself. :o I’m still growing in my faith as you see.

I hope this doesn’t affect your relationship with the Church (seeing as you came from othrodoxy).

Catholig
 
ICXCNIKA said:
Christ is Risen!

My wife and I sponsored a couple coming in to the Church at last night’s Easter Vigil. We therefore attended Mass at their parish, not ours. However, we know both the priests at this parish and have attended Mass their frequently.

I was frustrated that not once in the entire liturgy did anyone say “Christ is Risen.” (Christos Anesti). Some of the readers seemed poorly prepared and the liturgy seemed to bump along at times. This is the Easter vigil. This should be the most solemn, most amazing Mass of the year.

I came out of the Orthodox Church and at the Easter Liturgy everyone is crying out to each other “Christ is Riesn. He is Risen Indeed.”

Since returning to the Roman Catholic Church, I’ve always been the one to initiate that proclomation and I am always answered wtih things like “Uh, yeah.” or “He sure is.” or if I’m lucky a half hearted “Amen.” And this is from priests. I have not had one Catholic priest ever answer me when I say “Christ is Risen” with “In Truth He is Risen.”

Here is the song everyone sings over and over again at the end of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy and into the night. It is sung with vigor and enthusiasm.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And on those in the tombs, bestowing life.
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The thing is, the call and response aspect in the East is not a tradition of the West. What you’re expecting is not something that Latin Catholics really have ever done. It’s like expecting when visiting the East Latin actions. I respond He is Risen (or Slava na Viki when it’s Time After Pentecost) when I go the Eastern Catholic Churches because, though I do love it, it’s also because it’s custom.
 
ICXCNIKA said:
Christ is Risen!

My wife and I sponsored a couple coming in to the Church at last night’s Easter Vigil. We therefore attended Mass at their parish, not ours. However, we know both the priests at this parish and have attended Mass their frequently.

I was frustrated that not once in the entire liturgy did anyone say “Christ is Risen.” (Christos Anesti). Some of the readers seemed poorly prepared and the liturgy seemed to bump along at times. This is the Easter vigil. This should be the most solemn, most amazing Mass of the year.

I came out of the Orthodox Church and at the Easter Liturgy everyone is crying out to each other “Christ is Riesn. He is Risen Indeed.”

Since returning to the Roman Catholic Church, I’ve always been the one to initiate that proclomation and I am always answered wtih things like “Uh, yeah.” or “He sure is.” or if I’m lucky a half hearted “Amen.” And this is from priests. I have not had one Catholic priest ever answer me when I say “Christ is Risen” with “In Truth He is Risen.”

Here is the song everyone sings over and over again at the end of the Eastern Orthodox Liturgy and into the night. It is sung with vigor and enthusiasm.

Christ is risen from the dead, trampling down death by death. And on those in the tombs, bestowing life.
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You would have loved our service this AM. Before the entrance procession the cantor said very loudly “Christ is Reason, Alleluia” Followed by the whole choir shouting “Christ is risen, Alleluia” followed by the entire congregation in unison proclaiming “Chirst is risen, alleluia” My only complaint was the choir sang “Moring has Broken” as the Communion song…
 
estesbob said:
You would have loved our service this AM. Before the entrance procession the cantor said very loudly “Christ is Reason, Alleluia” Followed by the whole choir shouting “Christ is risen, Alleluia” followed by the entire congregation in unison proclaiming “Chirst is risen, alleluia” My only complaint was the choir sang “Moring has Broken” as the Communion song…
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Our choir sang the same song, ahhhhhhhhhhhggggggg. Christ is Risen, ALLELUIA, ALLELUIA.
 
I would have responded, “He is truly Risen, Alleluia” but that’s because I am a voracious reader and have come across it before.

As BillyT92679 said, it is not a custom in the Latin Church but wouldn’t it be great is converts from Orthodox Churches taught us to adopt the practice?
 
BillyT92679 said:
The thing is, the call and response aspect in the East is not a tradition of the West. What you’re expecting is not something that Latin Catholics really have ever done.
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Actually it is.

The correct Latin Rite answer\response is

“Surrexit Dominus vere! Alleluia!”

“Et apparuit Simoni! Alleluia!”

“Christ is Truly Risen! Alleluia”

“And appeared to Simon! Alleluia!”

(Luke 24:34)

Very few people have used it much since Vatican II 😦
 
I learned the response in Mass today. Father Larry kept going with “Christ is Risen” until the whole church responded. It rocked!!!
 
I miss the Divine Liturgy for Easter but I mainly miss the all the good blessed Easter food. I have not been to a divine liturgy during the Easter season in a couple years now since I don’t get to go home for Easter in college. Christ is risen from the dead. By death he conquored death and to those in the graves, he granted life.
 
ICXCNIKA said:
Perhaps you go to St. Patrick’s in Fallon. If so, you have an awesome pastor.
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Nope, I got to St. Joseph Church/Bread of Life Community with Father Larry Richards as the pastor. (yes, THAT Father Larry Richards)
 
PatienceAndLove said:
Nope, I got to St. Joseph Church/Bread of Life Community with Father Larry Richards as the pastor. (yes, THAT Father Larry Richards)
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At St. Patrick’s in Fallon (Nevada) there is a beautiful icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. I could stay there for hours.

And the pastor there, Father Larry, is a great man of God. Too bad it’s not my parish.
 
It is not a Roman tradition, but it has been adopted by most Protestant denominations, which I don’t imagine is much of a comfort to you.

On the matter of the Easter vigil, I have frequently wondered how they get such a complicated service which only happens once a year halfway right at all. The answer is that, when they do, they rehearse the thing, something that happens sometimes but not all that often in US parishes. In as distinguished a location as St. Paul’s Outside the Walls in Rome during the Jubilee Year (not 2000, but 1975), in an establishment run by the famously litrugical Benedictines, there were noticeable flaws in the service, most of them (as had been the case at another Benedictine establishment on Good Friday) related to a felt and falsely democratic desire to dumb down parts of the service to a peasant level. You don’t have to be in Peoria to run into it; Rome will do.
 
Brendan said:
Actually it is.

The correct Latin Rite answer\response is

“Surrexit Dominus vere! Alleluia!”

“Et apparuit Simoni! Alleluia!”

“Christ is Truly Risen! Alleluia”

“And appeared to Simon! Alleluia!”

(Luke 24:34)

Very few people have used it much since Vatican II 😦
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I can’t think that the number of parishoners, normally used to not actually audibly responding, would have said this much pre Vatican II anyway. I attended a Tridentine Mass once recently and the Priest would say Christ is Risen and nobody replied.
 
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