The celebration of the Pascual Vigil presided by Pope Francis
Thirteen connects with the Vatican to live with the spectators and Pope Francis the Pascual vigil, with which the resurrection of Jesus Christ is commemorated after dying on the cross.
This is the most important celebration of the year for Christian confessions, which takes place on the night of Holy Saturday, and that gives way to Easter Sunday.In all of them it has a very similar ritual that includes the symbols of light, water, word and the Eucharist.
During the celebration, we will see the priests and deacons covered with white ornaments, as a sign of joy for the resurrection of the Lord, although normally, the celebrant priest usually dressed a brown coincide with the great solemnity of the liturgical act.
The different moments that make up the Easter vigil
The vigil begins with the lucernaria for which the Church is in gloom to remember that it is still in darkness because Christ is in the sepulcher at the beginning of the ceremony.
At the door of the Church or in the atrium there is fire prepared with a brazier or some embers in which the Pascual Cirio is turned on, to symbolize the risen Christ.From that candle, the other candles that the faithful carry to understand that we receive the light of the Lord are lit.Presented for three times as Luz de Cristo, the altar next to the Ambón is enthroned, where the readings are proclaimed.
Special is also the Cantado Pascual proclamation that leads to the readings of the Old Testament that speak of God's creation at the beginning and of the moments that prefigure Easter in the Old Testament such as the Paso del Mar Red, one of the most important readings.
At the end of the word of God of the Old Testament, the lights come on and the glory is sung.Next, it is the turn of the New Testament epistle and it is passed to one of the most solemn moments of the celebration, which is the song of alleluia that permeates the Pascual time with joy.It is the time when the Church is illuminated.
After the Gospel, the renewal of baptismal promises arrives.On the Holy Night of Easter there are many who are baptized since the water remembers that Christ, when he died and resurrected, buried in the water of baptism sin and cleaned us from him.
