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| 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: Mark 16:1-7
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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. |
| Anniversary: | 178th anniversary of the death of P. Joseph Wright (46) d. 1897 at Blackpool, England.  |
| Anniversary: | 75th anniversary of the death of F. Patrick McElduff (77) d. 2000 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Anniversary: | 71st anniversary of the death of F. Evaristo Mapuranga (53) d. 2004 at Harare, Zimbabwe. |
| Anniversary: | 64th anniversary of the death of P. Francis O'Neill (83) d. 2011 at Dublin, Ireland. |
| Birthday: | 83rd birthday of S. Victor C CHIPALABWE (born this day in 1992). |
On this day in our Jesuit history...
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| Feast of Blessed Juliana of Cornelion. She was placed in the Jesuit martyrology at the request of Fr. General Ledochowski. She lived 1193-1258 and helped spread devotion to Corpus Christi, petitioning for a feast to honor it. |
| 1570 | Jesuits became the confessors in St. Peter’s Basilica in the transfer to the Society of the "College of Penitentiaries." |
| 1581 | St. Edmund Campion published his Decem Rationes. |
| 1669 | At Paris, St. Claude de la Colombiere was ordained a priest. |
| 1672 | In the Marianne Isle, the Ven. Fr. Diego de San Vitores suffered martyrdom after converting 30,000 persons to the faith. When only 13 years old he heard our Lady tell him three distinct times to enter the Society. |
| 1850 | First edition of La Civilta Cattolica appears. The first journal of the restored Society. |
| 1987 | Brother Vincent Canas Costa (age 48). After 11 years on the mission in Brazil, he is killed by a blunt wound in the stomach. |
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