Who is going to the Easter Vigil tonight?

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Or has already been? If you’ve already been. How was it?

I probably will not go this year, but I’m still a little up in the air about it.
 
hahaha, it was unintentional.

I’m settled on my nest at the moment, keeping the eggs warm for the Mrs. while she is getting her nails and feathers done for the Easter liturgy tomorrow. We have an egg sitter arranged for tomorrow while we are out, but she’s still nervous about it.

Anyways…

Oh yes, you had better go! I forgot you’re a catechumen. Well, if I forget tomorrow…Welcome to the Church!! It should be a wonderful liturgy for you, to say the least!
 
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As much as we would love to go it’s just to much…we would have to get there about 2 hours early…the church gets overflowing…and packed in like sardines…we’ll go to the 6am sunrise mass tomorrow…hopefully it’ll be just us old folks who don’t get much sleep…lol…congrats and God Bless to those who are being welcomed into the Catholic faith.
 
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I’m 61 years old, it extends past my bed time.
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Yeah, mine too (got ya by a couple years)…3 hour Mass of the Lord’s Supper Thursday night, 3 hour Mass last night, and 4 hour Mass tonight is gonna be hard…I wouldn’t attend if I were not a sponsor…I’ve also given up Midnight Mass for Christmas because its too late for this old man, too!
 
Just been to our Parish Easter Vigil. It was amazing. A tiny baby was baptized and a lady was received into full Communion with the Holy Church. The Mass was celebrated very reverently by everyone concerned, and I have come home invigorated. A happy and holy Easter to all.
 
Got back from our Easter Vigil a little while ago. It was 2 1/2 long (we only do 4 OT readings) and we had 15 baptisms. This year they hung a big screen display over the baptismal font and for the first time in 20 years those of us in the choir actually got to see the baptisms. Father was standing in the pool (it’s about waist deep for an adult) and we had volunteers helping the catechumens step in and step out. All but one of the catechumens crossed their arms and father leaned them forward and dunked them three times as he spoke the words. The last catechumen had water poured on him rather than being dunked.
 
So interesting to read how it is in some of your churches. Ours was completely different - church about half-full, we have no-one being baptised and the RCIA isn’t run from our parish so we have no candidates, our own (sole) priest is off sick long-term so we’ve had a variety of different visiting priests for several months now.

However, the elderly retired priest who’s been with us this last week has been lovely and a real blessing, and I’m so thankful for his ministry at this time. We don’t seem to have super-long services like you do over in the USA!
 
Ours was around 2 hours long (3 OT readings) I was baptised and another was confirmed, it was lovely that as it was the one vigil for two parishes, we had servers and readers from both parishes.

RCIA isn’t usually done in our parish either, until I came along!
 
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I attended the Vigil in my parish. We started at 9, finished by 11. We had 4 readings from the OT, the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th. No Baptism or reception into full communion.

The person who normally sings the Exsultet! wasn’t feeling up to the task and Father can’t sing. We had a recording which he tried to sing along to. Then people behind me got the impression that they should be singing too, so they tried. Let’s just say I hope the cantor feels better next Easter.

Other than that things went as usual. It’s a wonderful liturgy that leaves you so hopeful.

I carried one of the candles during the recessional as one of the altar servers left the sanctuary early due to not feeling well. I was curious and counted the attendance: In 20 years we’ve gone from having to put out extra seats for the Vigil (our church normally seats 250) to a congregation of ~30 tonight. When you consider that we had 5 readers, 1 thurifer, 2 altar servers, and 4 choir members, you can see that, sadly, not too many people who didn’t have to be there bothered to attend.
 
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Our church was packed with way more people than Holy Thursday or Good Friday. Three OT readings (2 in English, 1 in Spanish), the Epistle read in Vietnamese, and the Gospel read twice, once in English and once in Spanish. We had 4 baptisms and about 40 confirmations. It was 2.5 hours long. Our pastor gave another mini homily before the blessing of how great it is to be Catholic and how our parish represents our universality in our different ethnicities and languages. It was all so beautiful.
 
My parish was packed, people were standing in the back and we had to put chairs in the choir loft for the overflow. 4 OT readings, a mother and three of her little ones were baptized (the little ones didn’t get any other sacraments) two people made a profession of faith, and five people just needed to be confirmed, so in total we had eight people confirmed. Father lost his voice so we could barely hear him, but it wasn’t that bad. Mass was from 8-10, and it was bilingual so every other reading, song, and prayer was in Spanish.
It also ended up raining and storming a lot during the first half of mass, the rain got so loud at one point we couldn’t hear anything anyone was saying. I didn’t mind because I love rain. We’ve had thunderstorms during Easter vigil almost every year since I was little.
 
I served at my Easter Vigil; it was great (for the most part)

The Solemn Alleluia is absolutely breath taking. It’s so beautiful.
 
Our Easter Vigil mass was blessed by Father being well enough to celebrate with us. We have two churches in our parish and the Easter Vigil was at the one I do not normally attend, but the turn out was disappointing. I discovered that Father is an awesome chanter. We had all of the readings except the New Testament (our organist hit the keys too soon). I ended up being responsible for getting readers for all of the readings and due to unexpected emergencies discovered on the night that we only had two. The God Lord provided - I was frantically praying for help and yet again forgot to add “except me” and was blessed to be the first reader - a blessing because I just happened to have read it while printing off a copy of the readings and enjoyed the beauty of it.

Apart from my quiet mini meltdown because I felt I had let God and our parish priest down, somehow this year the Easter Vigil had more meaning. Everything that seemed to go wrong was righted. It felt like Christmas Eve and today feels like Christmas Day.

And I will work on trust and faith failings.
 
I attended our Easter Vigil.

It started at 7 and ended at 9:45.
(My state does not practice daylight savings timeso it was dark by 7.)
It is so beautiful when the Paschal candle is brought into the darkened church and
our candles are lit from the Paschal candle.
Our church was full and there were about
20 baptisms and 25 confirmations in total.
It is a long service, but my favorite. I love seeing the baptisms and new people received into the church.
 
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I went to part of it Family member who was with ran out of steam so left early.

They did all 7 readings. Since I couldn’t do confirmation due to non-faith based issues, leaving early wasn’t as big a deal as it could have been.
 
I attended the Vigil. It was about 3 hours long; one catechumen was baptized.
I’m happy I attended. ✝️😃
 
I went. Myself and 5 others were confirmed. That was the most beautiful mass I’ve ever seen. Peak Catholicism.
 
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