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| violet | HOLY SATURDAY | |
| The Paschal Fast is observed if possible. [CR 20] Celebration of the Mass and the sacraments is strictly prohibited, except for Penance and Anointing of the Sick. Communion may be given only as viaticum. |
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| Hours of the day. The Office of Readings and Morning Prayer in public is recommended.
Night Prayer is celebrated only by those not present at the Vigil. | |
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| Preparation for the Vigil includes: preparation of the bonfire; candles for all the faithful present; water for the liturgy of Baptism; flowers and decorations for the altar. |
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| white | The Easter Vigil. |
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| The celebration should truly have the character of a Vigil. It must take place at night. It should not begin before nightfall and should end before dawn. To start earlier (e.g. at the customary time for a Sunday vigil Mass) is a "reprehensible abuse". [PS 78]
The Vigil has four parts:
I. Service of Light : Bonfire, Procession with Candle, Exsultet.
II. Liturgy of the Word : Readings, psalms, prayers, Gloria, homily.
III. Liturgy of Baptism : Litany, Blessing of Water, Baptism and/or Confirmation,
Renewal of Promises, Prayer of the Faithful.
IV. Liturgy of the Eucharist : Preface of Easter I ("on this night"), special
Communicantes and Hanc igitur; double alleluia at dismissal.
This liturgical order must not be changed by anyone on his own initiative. [PS 81]
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| Wherever possible, all the readings should be read so that the character of the Easter Vigil, which demands that it be somewhat prolonged, be respected at all costs. Where pastoral conditions require that the number of readings be reduced, there should be at least three readings from the Old Testament, taken from the law and the prophets; and the reading from Exodus (ch. 14) with its canticle, must never be omitted. |
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| The Readings [41]: |
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- Gen 1:1-2:2 or 1:1, 26-31a with Ps 104:1-2, 5-6, 10+12, 13-14, 24+35 or Ps 33:4-5, 6-7, 12-13, 20-22
- Gen 22:1-18 or 22:1-2, 9a,10-13, 15-18 with Ps 16:5+8, 9-10, 11
- Exod 14:15-15:1 with Exod 15:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 17-18 This reading and psalm are obligatory.
- Isa 54:5-14 with Ps 30:2+4, 5-6, 11-12a+13b
- Isa 55:1-11 with Isa 12:2-3, 4, 5-6
- Bar 3:9-15, 32-4:4 with Ps 19:8, 9, 10, 11
- Ezek 36:16-17a, 18-28 with Ps 42:3, 5; 43:3, 4 (when baptisms occur) or (when no baptisms) Isa 12:2-3, 4bcd, 5-6 or Ps 51:12-13, 14-15, 18-19
- Epistle: Rom 6:3-11
- Alleluia Psalm: Ps 118:1-2, 16-17, 22-23
- Gospel: Luke 24:1-12
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| Bells are to be rung during the Gloria, and the altar candles lit. |
| The celebrant -- or, in case of necessity, a cantor -- intones the triple alleluia before the Gospel. The gospel is honored with incense, but candles are not carried.
For the texts of the rites of Baptism and Confirmation, see the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
The dismissal with double alleluia is used tonight and throughout the octave. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Dismas, the good thief (cf. Lk. 23:41-42) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture the Annunciation to Mary (cf. Lk. 1:26-38) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| [RM] | Traditionally on this day, we remember from Scripture St. Isaac, patriarch (cf. Gn. 15-35) [from the Roman Martyrology]. |
| Anniversary: | 181st anniversary of the death of F. Jacob Glesinsky (33) d. 1892 at Boroma, Portuguese Eastern Africa.  |
| Anniversary: | 178th anniversary of the death of M. Amandus Leroeye (28) d. 1895 at Bombay, India. |
| Anniversary: | 141st anniversary of the death of P. Peter Molloy (58) d. 1932 at Preston, Lancs, England. |
| Anniversary: | 122nd anniversary of the death of F. Ignatius Matzke (81) d. 1951 at Grahamstown, RSA. |
| 52nd Anniversary of the erection of the Southern Africa Province. | |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| 1524 | Paschase Broet, one of the first ten companions of Ignatius, is ordained a priest long before he met St. Ignatius. |
| 1538 | Diego Hozes, S.J. dies. The first Jesuit to die. (even if the Society was not yet officially approved). He was a Spanish priest who died in Padua. |
| 1563 | The First Sodality of Our Lady of Fatima Prima Primaria was started at the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit, Jean Leunis. |
| 1563 | The first Sodality of Our Lady, Prima Primaria, was begun in the Roman College by a young Belgian Jesuit named John Leunis (Leonius). |
| 1586 | St. Margaret Clitheroe dies on this day, pressed to death. New RM. She protected some Jesuit Fathers. |
| 1634 | Andrew White, S.J. arrives in Maryland. Mass said on St. Clement Isle, River Potomac, not far from St. Inigo's. This is the beginning of Catholicism in English speaking America). |
| 1847 | Virgil Barber, S.J. dies. A convert to Catholicism, his wife and five children become religious, one of them a Jesuit. |
| 1904 | Francis Xavier is chosen by Pius X as the patron of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. |
| 1920 | Instruction/Letter of Father General Ledochowski on the use of the telephone. No general permission is given to scholastics to use the phone, and no phones in private rooms. |
| 1962 | Fr. Felice Cappello dies, known as "the Confessor of Rome", for hearing confessions at St. Ignatius Church. |
| 1968 | Paul VI approve new statutes for Sodalities, now CLC. |
| 1980 | Paul Dent, one of the first Missouri Province Jesuits who went to India in the 1920's, dies. |
| 2021 | Erection of the Southern Africa Province. |
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