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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Easter
		Easter was celebrated in Rome and Alexandria on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, and the Roman Church claimed for this observance the authority of Sts.
		This Easter laughter, giving rise to grave abuses of the word of God, was prohibited by Clement X (1670-1676) and in the eighteenth century by Maximilian III and the bishops of Bavaria (Wagner, De Risu Paschali, Königsberg, 1705; Linsemeier, Predigt in Deutschland, Munich, 1886).
		The Church adopted the observance into the Easter ceremonies, referring it to the fiery column in the desert and to the Resurrection of Christ; the new fire on Holy Saturday is drawn from flint, symbolizing the Resurrection of the Light of the World from the tomb closed by a stone (Missale Rom.).
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05224d.htm (3998 words)

	Easter Vigil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Similarly, in Eastern Orthodoxy, the Divine Liturgy which is celebrated during the Easter Vigil is the most elaborate and important of the ecclesiastical year.
		From Easter to the Feast of the Cross on September 14, the prayers follow the Liturgy of Easter.
		From Easter to the Feast of Ascension, the Easter Cross is moved from the centre of the church to a stand inside the sanctuary.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Easter_Vigil (1637 words)

	Easter Vigil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wellspring of the Gospel, Easter Vigil, Catherine McElhinney and Kathryn Turner, Weekly Wellsprings.
		Easter Vigil/Easter Morning liturgy from The Church of England in An Anglican Liturgical Library.
		Easter Vigil at Cerezo Barredo's weekly gospel illustration.
	www.textweek.com /festivals/easter_vigil.htm (841 words)

	USCCB - (Liturgy) - The New Missale Romanum and the Easter Vigil
		Therefore, the Easter Vigil does not correspond to the usual Saturday evening Mass and its character is unique in the cycle of the liturgical year.
		One of the unique aspects of the Easter Vigil is the recounting of the outstanding deeds of the history of salvation.
		Number 49 of the rubrics for the Easter Vigil notes that when there are many to be baptized, the priest may ask for the renewal of baptismal promises of all present immediately after the profession of faith made by those to be baptized, along with the godparents and parents.
	www.usccb.org /liturgy/eastervigil.shtml (2073 words)

	The Easter Season
		Easter as an annual celebration of the Resurrection that lies at the center of a liturgical year has been observed at least since the fourth century.
		From the earliest days of the church, the Easter Vigil was primarily a means of preparing new converts for baptism into the Christian Faith, which was normally done on Easter Sunday as the focal point of the entire year.
		In the early church, the Easter Vigil concluded with the baptism of new converts, celebrating not only Jesus’ resurrection from death to life, but also the new life that God has brought through the death and resurrection of Jesus to individual believers.
	www.cresourcei.org /cyeaster.html (3170 words)

	Easter Vigil
		The origins of the Easter Vigil are in the Hebrew observation of the Passover.
		The Easter Vigil is divided into four parts - the Service of Light, the Liturgy of the Word, the Liturgy of Holy Baptism and the Liturgy of the Eucharist.
		THE EASTER VIGIL [1979] prepared by Rev. Daniel Brockopp, Precentor, The Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso, In.
	www.christlutheranchurch.mb.ca /easter_vigil.htm (2282 words)

	The Easter Triduum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Easter triduum, marking the days of Jesus'passion and resurrection, is the most important time of the church year.
		The Easter Triduum begins with Mass on Holy Thursday evening, when Jesus sacramentally anticipated the gift he would make of himself on the cross.His command to serve others is dramatically recalled this night in the ceremony of the washing of the feet, which he performed in the supper room for his disciples.
		The Easter Vigil is the high point of the Easter triduum celebrating the passion and resurrection of Jesus.
	www.cptryon.org /prayer/season/triduum.html (691 words)

	An Easter Vigil Memoir
		Easter was, of course, a big theological day—the reason for our being Christian, in fact—and I remember the long sermons about the empty tomb and the surprised women.
		On Saturday evening, the Easter Vigil began in darkness, representing that greatest of spiritual darknesses, when the Evil One was apparently triumphant.
		That service, rather than the Easter Sunday service (for which there is no special liturgy), is truly the climax of the liturgical year, the most joyous celebration of the central fact that makes us Christians.
	www.deimel.org /church_resources/vigil.htm (1286 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Holy Saturday
		This vigil opened with the blessing of the new fire, the lighting of lamps and candles and of the paschal candle, ceremonies that have lost much of their symbolism by being anticipated and advanced from twilight to broad daylight.
		The vigil of Easter was especially devoted to the baptism of catechumens who, in the more important churches, were very numerous.
		These rites were identical with those in the primitive Church and were solemnized at the same hours, as the faithful throughout the world had not yet consented to anticipate the Easter vigil and it was only during the Middle Ages that uniformity on this point was established.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/07424a.htm (581 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Easter vigil
		The "Vigil" mass is a mass celebrated in anticipation of a feast.
		A Vigil mass always satisfies the obligation for a feast, as long as it is actually the mass of the day or the vigil.
		Easter vigil is not a holy day of obligation.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/printthread.php?t=140 (893 words)

	Easter and Pascha: All About Easter
		Easter (also called "Pascha" or some variant by most non-English speaking Christians) is the feast celebrating Jesus' resurrection from the dead, and is the greatest and oldest feast of the Church.
		At the Easter Vigil (in the West) three traditions developed: the baptism of new converts, lighting of the paschal candle, and the blessing of the new fire (taken from the Jewish blessing of the lamp on the eve of the Sabbath).
		Easter is the feast of the resurrection of Jesus.
	www.churchyear.net /easter.html (2166 words)

	Easter Vigil in the Holy Night - April 10, 2004
		On this holy night we celebrate the Easter Vigil, the first - indeed the "mother" - of all vigils of the liturgical year.
		There is a twofold significance to this solemn Easter Vigil, so rich with symbols accompanied by an extraordinary abundance of biblical texts.
		On the one hand, it is the prayerful memory of the mirabilia Dei, in the re-presentation of key texts from the Sacred Scriptures, from creation to the sacrifice of Isaac, to the passage through the Red Sea, to the promise of the New Covenant.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/john_paul_ii/homilies/2004/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_20040410_easter-vigil_en.html (636 words)

	Roman Catholic Calendar: Liturgical Calendar for The Liturgy of the Hours
		Vigil of the Solemnity of The Holy Trinity.
		Vigil of the Solemnity of Peter and Paul, apostles.
		31: Vigil of the Solemnity of All Saints.
	www.rosaryshop.com /calendar.php?year=this (944 words)

	The Easter Vigil 2002
		The Easter Vigil is the high point and center of the Church’s liturgy.
		In this long ceremony of watchfulness and reflection and waiting, all the themes that we have been hearing and reflecting on during the season of Lent are brought to their clearest enunciation and their final expression.
		Easter is not just concerned with something that happened to Jesus a long time ago.
	www.catholiccincinnati.org /liveletters/eastervigil2002.htm (861 words)

	Easter Vigil: This is the Night!
		In Easter, we celebrate that in surrendering ourselves in waters of baptism (where we have died with Christ), we too become and are becoming new creations.
		The Vigil is to the year what Sunday is to the week: everything goes to it during the year, everything reflects on it for the rest of the year.
		You also might want to consider celebrating different parts of the Vigil liturgy in different places in the church with short breaks in between to start the vision that this is a Vigil and not just an hour long celebration of the Eucharist.
	www.st-matthew.on.ca /bulletin/vigil.htm (1018 words)

	CNN.com - Frail pope holds Easter vigil - April 14, 2001
		However he lit the main candle whose flame was shared with thousands of smaller ones that were distributed to people gathered inside the darkened basilica, which flickered with the little lights and flashbulbs.
		Later, he was due to baptise six people in an annual rite of the Easter vigil.
		The vigil itself was supposed to have taken place in the square, to accommodate the 25,000 people expected to attend, but was moved inside because of a cold rain Saturday, the Vatican said.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/04/14/vatican.easter.02/index.html (474 words)

	The Great Vigil of Easter
		St. Augustine called it the "Mother of all Vigils" and observed that all other liturgies were only the repeatable portions of this one.
		The Great Vigil, although now much shorter than it ever was in the past, is a long liturgy, as we know all too well, and not always easy to grasp.
		For one thing it is not a "Vigil" at all in the modern sense of a preparation to celebrate a feast on the following day, but the true and original celebration of Easter itself.
	www.trinityla.org /753vigil.html (1347 words)

	Easter Vigil - Holy Saturday, 15 April 2006
		For this reason Baptism is part of the Easter Vigil, as we see clearly in our celebration today, when the sacraments of Christian initiation will be conferred on a group of adults from various countries.
		Baptism means precisely this, that we are not dealing with an event in the past, but that a qualitative leap in world history comes to me, seizing hold of me in order to draw me on.
		This is the joy of the Easter Vigil.
	www.vatican.va /holy_father/benedict_xvi/homilies/2006/documents/hf_ben-xvi_hom_20060415_veglia-pasquale_en.html (1524 words)

	Easter Vigil Homily
		As a result, Easter could be celebrated as early as March 22 or as late as April 25.
		But the reality of Easter is not determined by a date on a calendar, or a cycle of the moon or because a preacher proclaims it or a choir chants Alleluias.
		Easter becomes a reality when each of us who are believers makes our life a source of light for our fellow men and women, when our words heal, when our hearts understand, when lesser values die in us for the sake of greater realities.
	www.goodshepherdonline.com /pastorpages/pastor14.htm (674 words)

	The Easter Vigil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"According to a most ancient tradition, this night is 'one of vigil for the Lord' (Exodus 12 :42), and the Vigil celebrated during it, to commemorate that holy night when the Lord rose from the dead, is regarded as the 'mother of all holy vigils' (Saint Augustine, Sermo 219).
		The Passover Vigil, in which Hebrews kept watch for the Lord's Passover which was to free them from slavery to Pharaoh, is an annual commemoration.
		Here are included excerpts from four sermons on Easter by the Fathers of the Church and two studies on the real significance of the Easter Vigil.
	members.aol.com /fatherpius/neo10.html (386 words)

	Easter Vigil Meditation
		Admittedly, the Easter story is pretty incredible, often more than we can take in, and we cannot help but question the story.
		For Easter is not just about Jesus, it is about you and me. Jesus has already claimed new life; now it is ours to claim new life.
		If we claim this story, if we live it’s love and hope and promise, feeding the hungry, caring for the poor, healing the sick, binding up the brokenhearted, welcoming the stranger, working for justice, that is all the proof of resurrection this tired old world will ever need.
	www.fccb.net /new_page_41.htm (1219 words)

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		Full of biblical imagery centering around light/darkness, creation/new creation, death/life, and sin/redemption, the Easter Vigil proclaims the victory of our Passover Lamb over sin, death, and hell, pointing us to Holy Baptism as the means by which we are made partakers of His resurrection.
		The Vigil of Easter (see Lutheran Worship Agenda, p.73, ff.) is divided into four services: (1) The Service of Light; (2) The Service of Readings; (3) The Service of Holy Baptism; and (4) The Service of Holy Communion.
		As the Easter Proclamation (Exultet) is sung, the candles in the chancel and the sanctuary are lighted with a flame from the paschal candle.
	www.ctsfw.edu /academics/faculty/pless/EasterVigil.htm (996 words)

	Easter Vigil
		On Good Friday I attended the celebration on Calvary and on Easter Sunday I concelebrated Mass a few feet away from the tomb and a few days later I concelebrated Mass in the tomb.
		About a week after Easter Sunday I was on a Jewish bus, travelling from one Jewish part of Jerusalem to another Jewish part of Jerusalem but passing through an Arab part of the city on the way.
		Notice that the water is at the foot of the cross symbolizing the new life that we received because of Jesus dying and rising for us.
	www.frtommylane.com /homilies/holy_week/easter_vigil.htm (1130 words)

	Holy Saturday - the day before Easter
		Easter Vigil, dating back to at least the Roman times, takes place on Holy Saturday.
		The Easter Vigil is a service held in many Christian churches as the official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
		The Easter Vigil is celebrated by the use of a wax candle which is inscribed with a cross.
	www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk /customs/easter/saturday.htm (341 words)

	Easter
		Easter is a day of rejoicing for the Christians as they celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his Crucifixion.
		The origins of Easter date to the beginnings of Christianity, but is not clear how the word 'Easter' came to be.
		According to the practice of the Roman Catholic church, this vigil consists of the blessing of the new fire (a practice introduced during the early Middle Ages); the lighting of the paschal candle; a service of lessons, called the prophecies; followed by the blessing of the font and baptisms and then the mass of Easter.
	www.indiaparenting.com /indianculture/festivals/fest011.shtml (961 words)

	Pope leads candelit Easter vigil Mass - Boston.com
		Pope Benedict XVI ushered in Easter services late Saturday with a dramatic, candlelit vigil in St. Peter's Basilica, saying Christ's resurrection was "the most crucial leap" in the history of mankind.
		Pope Benedict XVI holds a candle during the Easter vigil Mass in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, April 15, 2006.
		The pontiff ushered in Easter services late Saturday with a dramatic candlelit vigil in St. Peter's Basilica in which he reminded the faithful of Jesus' resurrection.
	www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2006/04/15/pope_leads_candelit_easter_vigil_mass (477 words)

	Easter Vigil 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Easter Vigil is the major celebration in the Church's year.
		The Easter Vigil service celebrates the resurrection - the triumph of Jesus over death as he rises from the grave.
		Alpha and Omega (the beginning and end letters of the Greek alphabet) and the year are inscribed on the pascal candle, and the candle is carried through the church, and each person in the church lights an individual candle from it until the church is full of light.
	www.rcdhn.org.uk /events/easter_vigil.htm (274 words)

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