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The history of the Church\u2019s liturgy reveals that a significant aspect of \u201ckeeping vigil\u201d through the nighttime hours is a prolonged Liturgy of the Word. Some ancient traditions proclaimed a number of scriptural and even non-scriptural readings to an assembly as it kept a \u201cnight watch\u201d before the observance of a major liturgical celebration. While in contemporary circumstances the number of \u201cvigil liturgies\u201d has declined to the Paschal Vigil (and a suggested Pentecost Vigil), the character of a vigil liturgy as a vigil of readings remains.<\/p>\r\n

And readings<\/strong><\/em> in the plural it is. The Paschal Vigil prescribes seven readings from the Old Testament, one from the epistles (Romans 6), and a gospel of a resurrection account \u2013 a total of nine readings in all. The proclamation of all these readings is a daunting task, especially among assemblies used to the standard three readings of a Sunday liturgy, or who have come to the Saturday evening Mass expecting a \u201cSaturday-night quickie,\u201d to sleep in on Easter Sunday morning. The realization that seven(!) Old Testament readings will precede the gospel is enough to throw any pious church-going Catholic into consternation!<\/p>\r\n

Yet the choice and arrangement of these readings is both quite ancient and highly significant. Proclaimed together they announce not only the overwhelming panorama of salvation history, but also they exercise a profound annunciation that salvation continues to be accomplished in our own day. The full proclamation of the entire vigil of readings occupies the largest component of the Paschal Vigil.<\/p>\r\n

Yet, the liturgical guidelines for the Paschal Vigil provide that for \u201cpastoral reasons\u201d the number of readings may be reduced. And sadly, some parish communities may \u201cinvent\u201d a pastoral reason to do so. However, recognizing that exceptions do become the norm, the liturgy insists that of all the vigil readings, the one from Exodus (14: 15\u201415: 1) MUST<\/strong> be proclaimed.<\/p>\r\n

A good question is why? Why of all the readings offered, from Genesis to the prophets, would Exodus be chosen indispensable for proclamation? Well, the theological answer is that Exodus serves as the great \u201ctypology\u201d of the resurrection of Christ. In the Exodus account, God secures the liberation of the Israelites through their miraculous passage through the Red Sea. Liberated from the clutches of the Egyptians, they begin the journey, which will establish them as a nation, as the Chosen People of God.<\/p>\r\n

Here Pascha<\/em> is understood as transforming \u201cpassage,\u201d from slavery to freedom. In Christ this \u201cpassage\u201d is writ large, from death to new life, and made a universal experience for all believers. The reading serves as connection and integration between promise and fulfillment.<\/p>\r\n

However, if one dares to look a bit more closely at the Exodus account, it reveals an unsettling (though not unfamiliar) depiction of God some might think inconsistent with the Easter celebration. It is the way in which God leads<\/strong><\/em> the Israelites through the sea. Without a closer study of the text, Conventional Wisdom probably understands the scenario in this way: the evil Egyptians pursue the Israelites into the sea and God, after leading the Israelites out, has the sea cover the Egyptians in punishment for their wickedness.<\/p>\r\n

The text, though, includes some specific details. For while the Egyptians do pursue the Israelites, the text also states that they begin to realize that God is fighting for Israel against them. The Egyptians have \u201cwised up,\u201d so to speak (especially after not getting the picture through a variety of plagues!), and they sound the retreat (14: 24-25). Strangely, the text goes further to state that as they are retreating, it is God who clogs their chariot wheels with mud, so that they cannot escape. They are, in fact, trapped<\/strong>……by God. It is then that God, in quite a vengeful act, casually calls the waters back upon this mud-ensnared group, drowning the Egyptian army. And we are left with the chilling and yet matter-of-fact statement, \u201cNot a single one of them escaped\u201d (14: 28). To add insult to injury the Exodus passage concludes with the liberated Israelites singing and dancing over the destruction of the Egyptians whose bodies are washing up on the shore (15: 1).<\/p>\r\n

In most proclamations the complexity of this scenario might just pass over our heads. Yet the image of freedom at a price is meant to remain with us. We are asked to consider what sort of God, as Annie Dillard once challenged us, we \u201cso blithely invoke?\u201d How do we justify our \u201calleluias\u201d after remembering such an event, where the liberation of one people comes at the destruction of another who already realized they had lost? And at the hands of a God, whom we profess is all good and all loving; who causes the sun to rise on the just and the unjust? Is God truly good and loving, but only to a point…?<\/p>\r\n

These questions are part of the great paradox of the resurrection. For when faced with the very frustration by crucifixion of God\u2019s plan in Jesus of Nazareth, God responds not with equal (and perhaps in many eyes justified) destruction. No, rather, God breathes the new life of resurrection on all, even on those who screamed for Christ’s death.<\/p>\r\n

We must listen to the Exodus account at the Paschal Vigil in order to truly ponder the wonder of the resurrection; and of the kind of God, more than we can ever consider or imagine, who calls us into relationship. We must be struck with the awesome life-changing, destiny-changing, nature of this act of God.<\/p>\r\n

Try as we might, we can never domesticate this type of God. Nor can we view God as one who fulfills only purposes that we in our feeble minds conceive are right and proper for God to fulfill. The liturgy of Pascha<\/em> once again invites us to dare say “Yes!” to this unpredictable God; to accompanying God into those places, Dillard again challenges, \u201cfrom which we can never return.\u201d It takes the courage of faith to dare say \u201cAlleluia\u201d to that!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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