Should I attend another Easter Vigil Mass?

[tawny]

This is the Easter Vigil. The rules that apply for this are found in a few documents, notably “Paschale Solemnitatis”. Some parishes actually celebrate it in the middle of night, where it ends just at daybreak.

Correct.

 

[tawny]

However, this isn’t any anticipatory Mass, this is the Easter Vigil. It is mother of all Vigils and in a sense, the most important of all Masses during the Liturgical Year. The rubrics of the Roman Missal for the Easter Vigil states:

“3. The entire celebration of the Easter Vigil must take place during the night, so that it begins after nightfall and ends before daybreak on the Sunday.”

The Easter Vigil has its own rubrics to be followed.

Correct, our Vigil always starts at 8:00P.

 

[Kielbasi]

In that case, shouldn’t it start at 7:08pm (sunset) not 8:04pm?

Even though sunset is at 7:08, its not totally dark at that time. It takes until 8:04 for it to be as dark as it is going to get.

 

[JadleKop]

I am not Catholic, so I am not familiar with the the “rules”.

I understand it has to start after dark, but the :04 seems kinda odd, especially when the other two local parishes starts at 7:30 and 8:00, and others that posted on this thread either has a :00 or :30 in it. I know it’s only 4 minutes, just trying to make some sense out of it.