[Magdalen] Easter Vigil.

[Joseph Cirou]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
>Sent: Apr 7, 2017 10:49 PM
>To: "Magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
>Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Easter Vigil.
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>I can understand the ideal of having the Great Vigil be THE parishwide
>Easter celebration, but if mainly the clergy are the ones interested
>in that ideal, it won't work so great. The big Sunday morning festive
>Eucharist needs to be there, too, in many places. We've certainly got
>that. (We do the Vigil at 8pm Saturday and then our regular schedule
>at 8, 9, and 11 on Sunday). Might take some years to move toward the
>Vigil only, and some won't be able to manage the time of day it
>happens; for some it's too long or too strange...
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>On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 5:05 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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>Scott R. Knitter
>Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
St Bart's is doing the Vigil at 6AM here in Atlanta with a male choir doing some lovely music and then the big shebang is at 10:30 with strumpets and drums (g)

Joe  At the Melkite Church we do the Holy Saturday Liturgy at 10AM it is very similar to the Easter Vigil but there are particularities that you won't see any other time, such as the changing of the colors from dark to bright, ringing of the bells during the Canticle of the Three Children, procession of Triumph before the Gospel with the priest strewing laurel leaves around the church and Let All Mortal Flesh is the proper Cherubikon. The liturgy is celebrated on the epiptaphios (Anaphora of St. Basil)  We used to do that service at 3:30 PM at Christ the Redeemer. It is technically Vespers with the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil.

The monks of New Skete do the Great Vespers with some of the special ceremonies but Pascha is at Midnight.

At St. JOhn's it is at 10:30 with the Liturgy beginning 11 ish and finishing by 1AM and then they repeat the service at 10am the Easter Service (Paschal Matins) is called the Hajme or Rush and makes a great deal of psalm 24  and is based on one of the apocryphal Gospels whch described the descent in to Hades and Jesus releasing and raising up the the Old Testament
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