What time was your Vigil Mass?

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8:30 PM at the parish my wife and I attended on Saturday (for a friend’s reception into the Church), and 7:30 PM at our home parish.
 
Just as a completely off-topic public service announcement (because I’ve seen people comment on this in serveral posts on this thread)…

The “traditional” start date for Daylight Saving Time is 2:00 am the morning immediately following the final Saturday in March (2:00 am on Sunday 4/1 this year). Although we started Daylight Saving Time several weeks early this year, the traditional start date passed last weekend, thus if the start date hadn’t changed, we would have just completed our first full week of Daylight Saving Time. This year, the change to the start date of Daylight Saving Time would not have affected the times for your Vigil Masses. It will affect the times for the Vigil Masses next year, but not this year.
 
MusicMan said:
Just as a completely off-topic public service announcement (because I’ve seen people comment on this in serveral posts on this thread)…

The “traditional” start date for Daylight Saving Time is 2:00 am the morning immediately following the final Saturday in March (2:00 am on Sunday 4/1 this year). Although we started Daylight Saving Time several weeks early this year, the traditional start date passed last weekend, thus if the start date hadn’t changed, we would have just completed our first full week of Daylight Saving Time. This year, the change to the start date of Daylight Saving Time would not have affected the times for your Vigil Masses. It will affect the times for the Vigil Masses next year, but not this year.
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Oh well. Father never claimed to be infallible. and I just didn’t take time to think it through. This is the 1st year we have ever had to change out clocks. (since the 50’s I think)
 
Pax vobiscum!

Ours was at 8:30 PM Saturday. Went till about 11:15, too, and they only did three readings instead of the full seven.

In Christ,
Rand
 
Psalm45_9 said:
Well now, you truly had a vigil then. The Easter Vigil basically is a prayer service in anticipation of the Dawn that hearlds in Easter Sunday. The point of all those readings and psalms is to stretch out the time from the darkness to dawn. As dawn approaches then the Vigil enters into the Mass of the Resurrection. Ideally the triple alleluia and the gospel reading should be right at dawn. You were fortunate, you observed the vigil in its fullest sense. The earliest the church permits the Easter Fire to be lit is at twilight. My parish always has the vigil at 7:00pm Holy Saturday evening. But depending on what time of the year that is, it sometimes can still be too early. Ideally the sky should be pink and the stars start to appear when the fire is lit.
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Wow, thank you! I guess we did something right- for once 😉 …
We did indeed have the triple alleluja at the break of dawn (you could see it getting lighter through the windows), then they rang the bells- loud and long, haha! Poor neighbors…chruch bell ringing at 6 a.m., they probably now despise us even more now…We lit the fire at 5:05 a.m., then they lit the Easter candle, after saying the prayer along the lines and year number and carried it into the VERY dark church. Kind of an oopsy there, the Easter candle went out as Father just said “lumen Christi”…ahem…they got it lit again, but still…I’m glad I’m not superstitious, otherwise, wow, what a sign in the Easter night.
Anyway, thanks for the info, have a great Easter Season, God bless
rk
 
7 :30 pm was our start.
It was very beautiful. On Sunday, we have a sunrise service at 5:30am. with a procession of ethnically costumed parishioners carrying the Risen Lord statue to the grave, since our parish also has many Polish members… Happy Easter to all! Christ is Risen!
 
Ours went from 8:30 to almost Midnight - Many baptisms and confirmations. Splendid music too, I might add.

Downside was light attendance but for family and friends of catechumens. No one was standing which was highly unusual for our overpacked sanctuary.
 
Gee, you guys all had a lot of baptism etc. huh? We only had 1 confirmation…no baptism…😦 I guess they had another one scheduled yesterday (Easter monday, also a Day of Obligation here) for an adult who converted to catholicism (we don#t have RCIA per se here, it’s very different…). Sad, really, I always enjoyed the Easter Vigil especially because of all of the baptisms and confirmations…well, it was still a beatiful Mass…still have that happy feeling from it!🙂
God bless
rk
 
I think we had 18 baptisms and another 20 or so confirmations. This is typical.

Asaph
 
Our vigil Mass sarted at 8:30. I spoke to someone who attended the vigil at our cathedral and he said that they didn’t finish Mass until almost midnight.

One of our priests when I was growing up had the Easter vigil start before sunrise. I really liked that tradition and feel that it is way more historic and symbolic than having it on Saturday night. It truly is Easter when that early morning vigil Mass is over.
 
I think a lot of parishes in the Archdiocese started at around 7 or 7:30 but we started at 9:00 (as did a few others). I really liked it, it was great starting outside with the holy fire in real darkness (or close to it).
 
Loren_1of6 said:
Our vigil Mass sarted at 8:30. I spoke to someone who attended the vigil at our cathedral and he said that they didn’t finish Mass until almost midnight.

One of our priests when I was growing up had the Easter vigil start before sunrise. I really liked that tradition and feel that it is way more historic and symbolic than having it on Saturday night. It truly is Easter when that early morning vigil Mass is over.
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it’s funny how when I was in the US, the protestants had their “Son rise” service at 5 or 6 a.m., I always liked the name, “Son rise”, beautiful “doublespeak” (sorry, too much George Orwell). Come to think of it, it should be in the morning, with the sun rising throughout the Mass. Oh well, as long as it’s dark, seems like 8:30 p.m. was THE time in the US, though. Thanks for sharing!
But back to my OP: When is the Emmaus reading again in the US?
 
Our Vigil Mass Started at 10:30-10:40pm and lasted til 1:30am

There was no New Catholics entering at this mass…

Beautiful service but a bit cold when we went out for the lighting of the Paschal Candle.

This is my first post but I am about to dive in deep real soon So i will be seeing you all around
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Just as a completely off-topic public service announcement (because I’ve seen people comment on this in serveral posts on this thread)…

The “traditional” start date for Daylight Saving Time is 2:00 am the morning immediately following the final Saturday in March (2:00 am on Sunday 4/1 this year). Although we started Daylight Saving Time several weeks early this year, the traditional start date passed last weekend, thus if the start date hadn’t changed, we would have just completed our first full week of Daylight Saving Time. This year, the change to the start date of Daylight Saving Time would not have affected the times for your Vigil Masses. It will affect the times for the Vigil Masses next year, but not this year.
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Actually, from 1966-1985, DST began at 2AM on the last Sunday of April. (In 1974 DST was year around, because of the energy crisis.) Congress then moved it up to the first Sunday in April–it was not related to March–until this year, when it was moved back into March.

In any event, several years back the U.S. bishops sent out a reminder that the Easter Vigil is NEVER supposed to be celebrated before it is dark.
 
Ours started at 7:45 pm and ended at 10:00 pm. We had 8 baptized, and about 22 confirmed. I love the Easter Vigil Mass! 👍
 
5AM and 3:30AM!?! You two are some hardy souls to be up that early for Mass. 👍

Ours started at 9PM and was done at 11:30PM. We only had one baptism and one confirmation.

Maybe I should start a separate thread about this, but I am curious about when the lights go back on during the vigil at your parish. As I recall, we use to have the lights off and used the candles until the Gloria when the lights would come up. However, the last few years, we’ve kept our candles lit until the baptisms/confirmations were complete and the offetory began.
 
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