Did You Go To Easter Vigil Mass?

[aalpha1989]

[quote name='cappie' date='03 April 2010 - 03:20 PM' timestamp='1270322415' post='2086195']
Easter Vigil started 11.30pm just finished 5am....Australian Time. Now get ready for 7am & 9am Masses followed by baptisms then Mass this evening.
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Wow! That is one long Vigil!

[Marie-Therese]

Just got back from Vigil! We had a baptism and 3 confirmations, Deo Gratias!

Mine is a NO parish, but we did the full business, with the Exultet and the chanted Litany of the Saints (which we didn't do last year, for some reason). I love processing in with our candles...so beautiful! My daughter came with me (she is exhibiting some growing interest in my Catholic faith and asks a lot of questions ) and said she loved it! She also came to vigil last year. She thinks my parish priest is a hero.

Going to take back Vespers now, since I was not able to say it at the regular hour today, then have my Vigils and Compline and bed, then to Mass again for Easter!

O felix culpa, quæ talem ac tantum méruit habére Redemptórem!

[jeffpugh]

3 hour vigil. 9-12. Was epickness (with a "k"!). Felt a bit like the EF. Lots of chanted Latin, solemnity, incense. I was really moved by the way the paschal candle came to the centre of the pews (which are divided into four quadrants, but all face liturgical east... it's like a traditional church set up, sans a row of pews in the middle so the aisles are a cross) and how--from the choir loft--I was able to witness 4 candles being lit, then that doubled, and it creeped all the way to the edges. One of the singers brought us up a flame and we sung the antiphons for the lessons by candlelight!

Just a thought that was inspired by this thread: it inspires and excites me that the Latin Church, from east to west, blossoms forth again with the "gloria in excelsis", "gloria patri...", "alleluia" and organ again! It reminds me of the fire that spread throughout the church and illuminated it. Let us all be contagious as the vigil fire!

[Jaime]

Vigil was nice this year. We had three adult baptisms and one was a guy in his sixties. For a minute I thought he was going to get last rights in the font right because he did not react well to the full submersion. But all came out ok and sinless.

I've played the same music though for three years running. I'd wish the liturgists would change it up a bit.

[God Conquers]

Vigil was amazing this year! Bells, bells, bells! AMazing particitpation, our priest was ON Fire for the homily!

2 young guys getting baptized and confirmed! Probably would have done the same, based on their fiances haha - go cute Catholic girls!

[Thy Geekdom Come]

Forgot to mention...we had about 25 people received into the Church.

[God Conquers]

[quote name='Raphael' date='04 April 2010 - 02:15 AM' timestamp='1270361748' post='2086473']
Forgot to mention...we had about 25 people received into the Church.
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That is AMAZING!

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='God Conquers' date='04 April 2010 - 02:20 AM' timestamp='1270362023' post='2086476']


That is AMAZING!
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Yeah, of course, that's counting catechumens and candidates together. I didn't get an exact count, but I think we had just shy of 10 baptisms and then a bunch more had already been baptized and were being received. It was nice. About 40% of the church was cordoned off for them.

I attend the largest parish in the diocese, that should probably be stated. However, it's a mission diocese, too.

[God Conquers]

That is so great. That's pretty much the number for our whole diocese... other than the Chinese community, which always has a whole bunch.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

We've been teaching Aaron the Sign of the Cross and he really doesn't get it except at the end where we fold our hands together. To get him to do that part, I had to show him how it was similar to clapping. Sometimes he gets confused and claps at the end of the Sign of the Cross, which is kinda funny. Anyway, during the baptisms, the priest would say, "I baptize you [b]in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit[/b]" and Aaron started clapping and screaming happily.

Then he drooled on my shirt and saw the discoloration. He must have thought it was something sitting on my shirt because he kept trying to brush it off and he was making angry eyebrows and getting frustrated with the drool spot because it wouldn't brush off, lol.

Then, at one point, we're just praying and paying attention to the Mass and I realize that Aaron has removed his pants.

"Uh...whose kid is this?"

[missionseeker]

@ Fr. Cappie: You rock


[quote name='God Conquers' date='03 April 2010 - 06:37 PM' timestamp='1270337826' post='2086362']
Leaving now! Can't wait for the Exultet, my favorite moment of the year!!!!!!

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MINE TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE IT!

[God Conquers]

[quote name='Raphael' date='04 April 2010 - 02:27 AM' timestamp='1270362466' post='2086481']
We've been teaching Aaron the Sign of the Cross and he really doesn't get it except at the end where we fold our hands together. To get him to do that part, I had to show him how it was similar to clapping. Sometimes he gets confused and claps at the end of the Sign of the Cross, which is kinda funny. Anyway, during the baptisms, the priest would say, "I baptize you [b]in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit[/b]" and Aaron started clapping and screaming happily.

Then he drooled on my shirt and saw the discoloration. He must have thought it was something sitting on my shirt because he kept trying to brush it off and he was making angry eyebrows and getting frustrated with the drool spot because it wouldn't brush off, lol.

Then, at one point, we're just praying and paying attention to the Mass and I realize that Aaron has removed his pants.

"Uh...whose kid is this?"
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haha... awesome.

I found the baby mum mums and a book tonight of my little neice's that my brother forgot in the pew on Good Friday.


My friend's daughter had the same problems with the sign of the cross. Whenever you said "in the name of the father...etc" she would just tap herself in the chest like 15 times and then fold up her hands! So cuuuuute.

[Thy Geekdom Come]

[quote name='God Conquers' date='04 April 2010 - 02:32 AM' timestamp='1270362749' post='2086485']
haha... awesome.

I found the baby mum mums and a book tonight of my little neice's that my brother forgot in the pew on Good Friday.


My friend's daughter had the same problems with the sign of the cross. Whenever you said "in the name of the father...etc" she would just tap herself in the chest like 15 times and then fold up her hands! So cuuuuute.
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lol, don't get me started on the book issue. We took a book about God's creation and Aaron kept pointing to the pictures and shouting, "PUPPY!" Except he pronounces it, "pup-PPEEEEEEEEEE!" To be honest, I probably shouldn't have pointed to the puppy. I had a feeling he would do that. He loves pictures of puppies but he's rarely ever seen a real one.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Raphael' date='04 April 2010 - 07:27 AM' timestamp='1270362466' post='2086481']
We've been teaching Aaron the Sign of the Cross and he really doesn't get it except at the end where we fold our hands together. To get him to do that part, I had to show him how it was similar to clapping. Sometimes he gets confused and claps at the end of the Sign of the Cross, which is kinda funny. Anyway, during the baptisms, the priest would say, "I baptize you [b]in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit[/b]" and Aaron started clapping and screaming happily.

Then he drooled on my shirt and saw the discoloration. He must have thought it was something sitting on my shirt because he kept trying to brush it off and he was making angry eyebrows and getting frustrated with the drool spot because it wouldn't brush off, lol.

Then, at one point, we're just praying and paying attention to the Mass and I realize that Aaron has removed his pants.

"Uh...whose kid is this?"
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Awesome.

Edited April 4, 2010 by Archaeology cat

[laetitia crucis]

[quote name='Raphael' date='04 April 2010 - 03:15 AM' timestamp='1270361748' post='2086473']
Forgot to mention...we had about 25 people received into the Church.
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That is AWESOME. God is SO good... never ceases to amaze. Blessed be God! May they all be faithful to their Christian vocations!

[quote name='Raphael' date='04 April 2010 - 03:27 AM' timestamp='1270362466' post='2086481']
We've been teaching Aaron the Sign of the Cross and he really doesn't get it except at the end where we fold our hands together. To get him to do that part, I had to show him how it was similar to clapping. Sometimes he gets confused and claps at the end of the Sign of the Cross, which is kinda funny. Anyway, during the baptisms, the priest would say, "I baptize you [b]in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit[/b]" and Aaron started clapping and screaming happily.

Then he drooled on my shirt and saw the discoloration. He must have thought it was something sitting on my shirt because he kept trying to brush it off and he was making angry eyebrows and getting frustrated with the drool spot because it wouldn't brush off, lol.

Then, at one point, we're just praying and paying attention to the Mass and I realize that Aaron has removed his pants.

"Uh...whose kid is this?"
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That is TOO cute.