{"id":61866,"date":"2023-05-29T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T21:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=61866"},"modified":"2023-06-26T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T20:25:30","slug":"did-you-celebrate-the-vigil-of-pentecost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/did-you-celebrate-the-vigil-of-pentecost\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Paschalis Sollemnitatis<\/em>, the 1988 CDW letter on the celebration of Easter, suggests that we should celebrate a Vigil at Pentecost:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Encouragement should be given to the prolonged celebration of Mass in the form of a vigil, whose character is not baptismal as in the Easter Vigil, but is one of urgent prayer, after the example of the Apostles and disciples, who persevered together in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as they awaited the Holy Spirit<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><em>Notitiae<\/em> the official journal of the Congregation suggests how to celebrate such a prolonged vigil [259 (2998): 156-15]. This allows for the use of all four options for the Old Testament reading given in the Lectionary for the Vigil Mass. As in the Easter Vigil, there are prayers after each reading and then the <em>Gloria<\/em> is sung. This is followed by the Collect, a New Testament Reading and the Gospel. First Vespers of Pentecost may directly precede this celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2008 the second edition of the third edition of the Roman Missal in Latin (the <em>Supplementum<\/em>\u00a0 to the <em>editio typica tertia)<\/em>, added the material from <em>Notitiae<\/em> and formalized it into the text of the Roman Missal. These were in turn translated in the current 2011 English translation of the Roman Missal.\u00a0 In the United States, the 2017 <em>Supplement<\/em> to the <em>Lectionary for Mass<\/em> provide a clear arrangement of all the readings of the prolonged vigil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is all well and good.\u00a0 But I personally have never heard of such a prolonged vigil being celebrated in a parish context. So, the question I am posing in this post is whether any parishes actually take advantage of this possibility of a prolonged vigil? I hope that other PrayTell readers have experienced this, but I suspect that in most places it is a casualty of the attitude that sees any change to the regular Sunday liturgy as being simply too bothersome to implement and that especially something optional will rarely be celebrated.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cover image by geralt at <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/illustrations\/pentecost-holy-spirit-christianity-3409249\/\">Pixabay<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paschalis Sollemnitatis, the 1988 CDW letter on the celebration of Easter, suggests that we should celebrate a Vigil at Pentecost: Encouragement should be given to the prolonged celebration of Mass in the form of a vigil, whose character is not baptismal as in the Easter Vigil, but is one of urgent prayer, after the example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":61869,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[84,91,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lectionary-liturgy-of-word","category-liturgical-year","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Did you Celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost? - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/did-you-celebrate-the-vigil-of-pentecost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Did you Celebrate the Vigil of Pentecost? - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paschalis Sollemnitatis, the 1988 CDW letter on the celebration of Easter, suggests that we should celebrate a Vigil at Pentecost: Encouragement should be given to the prolonged celebration of Mass in the form of a vigil, whose character is not baptismal as in the Easter Vigil, but is one of urgent prayer, after the example [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/29\/did-you-celebrate-the-vigil-of-pentecost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-29T21:45:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-06-26T20:25:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/pentecost-g141ef9cd4_1280.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"653\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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