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Blessing of the Easter fire in Batangas, Philippines. The Easter Vigil, also known as the Paschal Vigil, the Great Vigil of Easter, or Holy Saturday at the Easter Vigil on the Holy Night of Easter, is a solemn liturgy held in traditional Christian churches as the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus.
A triple candlestick, also known as reed, tricereo, arundo, triangulum, or lumen Christi, was a liturgical object prescribed until 1955 in the Roman Rite Easter Vigil service, held on Holy Saturday morning. [1] [2] In the Easter Vigil service, the deacon or priest lights each of its three candles in succession, chanting each time in ascending ...
Holy Saturday (Latin: Sabbatum Sanctum), also known as Great and Holy Saturday (also Holy and Great Saturday), Low Saturday, the Great Sabbath, Hallelujah Saturday (in Portugal and Brazil), Saturday of the Glory, Sábado de Gloria, and Black Saturday or Easter Eve, [1] and called "Joyous Saturday", "the Saturday of Light", and "Mega Sabbatun" among Coptic Christians, is the final day of Holy ...
Watch again as Christians mark Holy Saturday with a candlelit vigil at the Holy Sepulchre Church in Jerusalem. This year, Israeli police will curb the number of worshippers inside the church for ...
The Easter Vigil liturgies of the Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches are nearly identical. [ 5 ] According to the Eastern Orthodox tradition of the Holy Fire , worshippers light candles from the Paschal trikirion during service at Saturday Midnight, while the troparion is sung.
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Tenebrae (/ ˈ t ɛ n ə b r eɪ,-b r i / [1] —Latin for 'darkness') is a religious service of Western Christianity held during the three days preceding Easter Day, and characterized by gradual extinguishing of candles, and by a "strepitus" or "loud noise" taking place in total darkness near the end of the service.
In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. [1] The Latin term vigilia , from which the word is derived meant a watch night, not necessarily in a military context, and generally reckoned as a fourth part of the night from sunset to sunrise.