[Magdalen] Alleluia, Christ is Risen!

[Joseph Cirou]

Well, I went to our Resurrection Service at around 10:30 last night. Just
after we got outside to proclaim the resurrection, the Lutherans next door
were coming out with candles, drums and other percussion that sounded like
a Jamaican festival, eventually they began to sing and we were singing and
it was a beautiful complementary unwittingly joint celebration of the
Resurrection. We do ours twice and the larger congregation was this morning
while I was still in bed.  Then our Orthodox friends and some Byzantine
Catholics who follow the Easter date strictly according to Nicaea will have
Pascha next week.

Joe

On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lutherans, at least in New Market, VA, don't do Vigil. They do a sunrise
> service. I don't. I did, however, do the Festival Service at 11 am, and it
> was glorious. For a small church, we rock it pretty hard! Brass quartet and
> all. Lots of good music, although the Gospel Procession hymn. "This
> Glorious Eastertide", fell flatter than a wet matzoh...I think I was one of
> about 3 people outside of the choir that knew it and sang; everyone else
> looked perplexed, and the others that sang were also displaced
> Episcopalians. We got to sing "Thine's All the Glory" and one of the
> communion hymns was my favorite, "Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and
> Sing." The Lutherans haven't managed to change the words to "Jesus Christ
> is Risen Today", mirabile dictu! And this was the anthem, amazingly well
> done by our little choir of a dozen (plus the aforementioned brass). I love
> the words.
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TygzRjinL8&list=PLnB1NmU6oXR3GArJuYQND6Yl3ewxaxvlp
>
> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > And also with you.
> >
> > We also went to the Vigil last night. It was very beautifully done.
> >
> > Eleanor
> >
> > On Sunday, April 5, 2015, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Wishing you all a blessed Easter
> > > Susan
> > >
> > > --
> > > Before enlightenment pay bills, do laundry.  After enlightenment pay
> > bills,
> > > do laundry.
> > >
> >
>