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The original twelve Old Testament readings for the Easter Vigil survive in an ancient manuscript belonging to the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem.The Armenian Easter Vigil also preserves what is believed to be the original length of the traditional gospel reading of the Easter Vigil, i.e., from the Last Supper account to the end of the Gospel according to Matthew.
First recorded Anglican Communion Service in Canada, Frobisher Bay, 1578. 8 The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 10 Edmund James Peck, Missionary to the Eskimo, 1924. 13 Cyprian, Doctor, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr 258. First General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada, 1893. 14 Holy Cross Day.
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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.
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 ...
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.
Also called Black Saturday, [citation needed] is a vigil service that is held after nightfall on Holy Saturday, or before dawn on Easter Sunday, in commemoration Jesus' death, sabbath rest, and harrowing of Hell. Many of the details that follow hold for Anglican and Evangelical Lutheran churches as well as Catholic worship.