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This article by Kristi Anderson first appeared in “The Central Minnesota Catholic: Magazine of the Diocese of St. Cloud”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven times throughout the night, in the dark and quiet of Easter eve after the Service of Light and Liturgy of the Word, sisters from St. Benedict\u2019s Monastery in St. Joseph make their way to their softly lit chapel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Surrounded by the glow of the new Easter candle, members of the religious community and their guests keep vigil throughout the night, marking each of these seven \u201cnight watches\u201d with song, prayer, symbolic rituals and silence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sacred tradition, rooted in Scripture and practiced in the early church, began at the monastery in 1983 while Benedictine Sister Theresa Schumacher served as the liturgy coordinator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWord and worship are at the heart of monastic life,\u201d Sister Theresa said. \u201cThey engage us in watching and waiting for Christ\u2019s second coming \u2026 and what is most real is the darkness into which Christ will break like a light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat\u2019s really important is how vigiling comes out of the Rule of St. Benedict,\u201d she added. \u201cThere are 13 chapters in the Rule about the Divine Office [the official prayer of the church] and five of them are on the importance of vigil \u2014 about watching, waiting, being alert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Mary Anthony Wagner, who died in 2002, adapted the tradition in 1985 to include elements from the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we wanted to do was to prepare ourselves for renewing our baptismal promises at the Easter Vigil,\u201d said Sister Delores Dufner. \u201cSo we incorporated some of the prayers and themes from RCIA. We are not a parish so we never have the baptisms or celebrations that parishes might have at the Easter Vigil. It is the monastic way of renewing our baptism and of being one with the whole church.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the senses<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sisters engage all the senses throughout the evening. For example, the first night watch, which takes place from 10 p.m. to 11:05 p.m., focuses on the Sign of the Cross. Gathered around the Easter Candle, the sisters sign one another on their forehead, ears, eyes, lips, heart, shoulders, hands and feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fourth watch, from 1:15-2:20 a.m., includes an anointing with aromatic oil. The sixth watch, from 3:25-4:25 a.m., incorporates a reflection on the Lord\u2019s Prayer, reminding each other that whenever the prayer is prayed, one is praying it as \u201cpart of the people of God, and in return they are praying it with me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are not squeezing this liturgy into our life,\u201d Sister Delores said. \u201cThis is our life, the movement through the liturgical year, especially through the Triduum. The rest of life is built around the liturgy instead of the other way around.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1994, Sister Delores, an internationally known liturgist and hymn writer, attended a workshop at the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy led by Norbertine Father Andrew Ciferni and Nathan Mitchell, two leading liturgists in the country. Sister Delores presented the sisters\u2019 practice of Holy Saturday night watches for their critique.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOne of my tasks was to find out what they thought of this practice and whether or not it would be appropriate for us to use it,\u201d Sister Delores explained. \u201cThey responded that, given our monastic tradition, it seemed like an ideal way to celebrate it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over time, the sisters have adapted it even more. Earlier versions included more of the history of some of the rituals. According to Sister Elaine Schroeder, the current liturgy director at the monastery, they\u2019ve tried to make it more participatory, engaging the sisters and those in attendance in the communal rituals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Elaine noted that for religious houses, the \u201cdifference\u201d from the way a parish celebrates the vigil is in silence, contemplative prayer and the \u201cexpansion or contraction of some elements of the ritual, rather than moving an element from beginning to end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn other words, sort of \u2018pulling it apart\u2019 and looking at the different parts, spending more time on one element or another,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is important to the sisters that the Triduum is a continuous celebration beginning with the Eucharist on Holy Thursday evening and ending with Easter Evening Prayer, that it is one continuous movement. That is something you can do in a community like ours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As is tradition, the font is drained in preparation for the new water which is blessed at the Liturgy of the Eucharist around 6 a.m. after all the night watches are complete. Sister Elaine Schroeder said she loves the sound of the water as it fills the basin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is extremely anticipatory and still,\u201d Sister Elaine said. \u201cWe are in the chapel. The candle is there, the light is very low, just enough so that we can read. At about 3:30 in the morning one of the sisters comes in and starts the water to fill the font. I\u2019ll go in and feel the stillness and the quiet and hear the sound of the water. It\u2019s very peaceful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sister Karen Rose entered the community in 2007 as a postulant. For her first Triduum at the monastery, she stayed awake all through the night just so she could participate in the whole experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt makes the movement from the Passion, suffering and death of Christ on Good Friday to the joy and glory of the Resurrection,\u201d Sister Rose said. \u201cIt makes a bridge between the two and makes each of them even more special.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stretching yourself<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Schaffer is a long-time friend of the Benedictine sisters and has attended the night watches for many years. She first came to know the sisters during her studies at St. John\u2019s School of Theology and Seminary. In 1996, she moved to St. Joseph and began worshiping with the sisters regularly.
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\u201cI found them to be such a source of strength, such welcoming people,\u201d Schaffer said. \u201cI feel these women live the Gospel and hold each other to the challenge that the Gospel calls us all to every day in so many ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In years past, Schaffer has spent the entire night keeping vigil among the sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI find it very powerful. To keep that vigil and to try to stretch myself for just one night, to do it in prayer with the community I have grown to love so much, is a gift and an opportunity to call to mind our own baptism. The tradition draws heavily on what the catechumens are experiencing in their journey toward baptism and it connects us with them,\u201d Schaffer said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen after the night of stretching yourself past sleeping, when we are gathered around the baptismal font that has new water bubbling up, it really is like living water,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There, before the font on Easter morning, those gathered proclaim their faith and renew their baptismal promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen we sing,  \u2018We do believe!,\u201d to me, it is the heart of the matter,\u201d Schaffer said. \u201cYes, I do believe in Jesus Christ and that I am saved by his grace and that I am not saved alone. It is the part of the year I wait for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Schaffer appreciates the opportunity to spend this sacred night with the sisters and says the community is a place of welcome and a source of comfort for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe that our prayer is the prayer of the church,\u201d Sister Karen said, \u201cthat when we pray, it is for the whole world. That\u2019s what makes it special, that\u2019s what makes it our vocation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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