[Magdalen] Easter Vigil.

[Jay Weigel]

The Easter Vigil is a very cool thing in theory, but I was somewhat soured
on the idea years ago when a friend and I asked some logistical questions
about our rector's plan to completely scrap the Easter Sunday festival
Eucharist in favor of the Easter Vigil and ended up being blamed for it
being canceled entirely. I haven't quite warmed up to the idea since. I
think I could, if it were held at a decent hour, but I don't like to drive
at night any more.

I have seen a couple of really cool ones on TV, though. The best was from
an African-American RC church, IIRC in St. Louis, and the best part of that
was the baptisms. Their "font" was actually a pool in which the priest
stood about hip-deep. The adult candidates came down into the pool and were
poured on, not immersed, but they did get good and wet. Babies were handed
down and got about half-dunked *and* poured on. It was all quite joyous,
with wonderful singing and some drumming during the service. I could deal
with that.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:37 PM, M J _Mike_ Logsdon <mjl at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

> >>>But it was outside; it was dark and cold;
> and he did use a Zippo.<<<
>
> Same with our Holy Wheelbarrow.  And one of my parting gifts to the Abp
> was a lighter from Rome with the seal of the Vatican State on it.
>