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#144103 - 03/06/08 02:07 PM
Re: Easter approaches...
[Re: Louisa]
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Registered: 08/22/07
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Well, I see we're all thrilled with Easter these days. When growing up we followed all the traditions...church, Easter baskets, new clothes, etc. Then I went through 25 years of Easter being the most exhausting day of the year...as a pastor's wife I was up and at 'em for sunrise service, church breakfast, bible classes, AM church service, big dinner with guests alwats, cantata practice all afternoon, evening Easter cantata and then reception. I always felt sick by the end of the day. When that all ended I've become an Easter recluse. It's pretty much a regular Sunday now for us and that's okay with me. It was never a favorite of mine.
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#144106 - 03/16/08 11:22 PM
Re: Easter approaches...
[Re: yonuh]
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This Easter will be a big celebration because my family and my future DIL's family will be celebrating it together. My sister and niece will also be in town. So, a big meal is planned. Before all that, we all meet in Church for Easter Mass and my SIL, son and older grandson will be the altar servers. A rare opportunity for all three to serve together in one Mass and in one where I will be doing the reading. I wish I could take the older grandchildren for the Saturday's Easter Vigil Mass but the order of service starts late and is too long for them to sit through. They have never been to one. Maybe, next year. Or perhaps, I can take them for the bonfire procession and just let them sleep through the readings if they nod off.
I used to buy Easter peeps for my children's basket when we were in the States. Are these still sold there?
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#144107 - 03/17/08 01:45 AM
Re: Easter approaches...
[Re: Lola]
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Registered: 11/24/06
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Loc: Belfast/Northern Ireland
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we have food and thought...
last yr the oven door got pulled off leaving the inner door....i am not sure how p managed this but it was easter lol.
so dinner planned again it might onlie be me and l so it wont be a big dinner hopfullie some kina walk in nature, even if the local park, i be happpie with that. Then we can all feel that spring is trulie heer.
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#144109 - 03/17/08 10:39 PM
Re: Easter approaches...
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On Holy Saturday, the Easter Vigil commences from the Presbytery at 10:00 P.M. The bonfire would have been started an hour earlier and it is around it where we congregate in accord with remembrance from tradition of waiting by Jesus' tomb. The service is in four parts.
Part 1 is the service of light. A procession of acolytes and junior altar servers brings the Easter candle to be blessed. Father cuts a cross in the wax with a stylus tracing the Greek letters Alpha above the cross, Omega below and the numerals of the current year between the arms of the cross. Father then inserts five grains of incense in the candle in the form of a cross before lighting it from the bonfire.
After the blessings, Father leads the procession into the Church where the altar has been left bare and dark. The Tabernacle is empty and left open to signify that Jesus is not there. As Father enters the Church, he proclaims "Christ our light". A senior acolyte follows with the Easter candle. For the second time it is proclaimed "Christ our light". Then all take turns to light their candle from the Easter candle as the rest of us make our way into the dark Church. When Father and the acolytes arrive before the altar, we proclaim for the third time: "Christ be our light". The Easter candle is then placed on a stand by the lectern or nearer to the altar. After the service of the lights, Parts 2, 3 and 4 follow respectively as the Liturgies of the Word (which comprises of seven readings from Genesis Exodus Isaiah Baruch and Ezekiel with the appropriate responses, prayers in-between and the Gospel; Liturgy of Baptism (for adults being received into the Catholic Church...we have 42 this year); and, Liturgy of the Eucharist (Communion).
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