Easter Masses on Sunday
04/22/09 03:08 PM
All Saints follows the ancient catholic tradition of
sprinkling the congregation with holy water during
the Easter Season, as a sign and reminder of our own
baptism.
The Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water occurs during the Entrance Rite and after the Easter Acclamation which is sung, “Alleluia Christ is risen” to which the congregation sings in reply, “The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!”
Then, the priest addresses the congregation in these or similar words:
Dear friends, by water and the Holy Spirit we have been buried with Christ and raised to new life in him. Let us pray that the sprinkling of this water may recall to us our own baptism by which God has made us worthy to stand before him.
Then a Collect is sung:
O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Each Sunday in Easter, for the Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water, the tradition has been to use a different Collect or [Prayer] from the Liturgy of the Word from the Holy Saturday Night Great Vigil of Easter. Thus on the 2nd Sunday of Easter, the priest sings the Collect above found on page 291 of The Book of Common Prayer.
Then, on the third Sunday of Easter, another Collect is used from the Easter Vigil Liturgy of the Word, such as one of the Collects also on page 291, 290, 289 or 288 until we come down to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, the Sunday after the Ascension. The congregation is sprinkled with holy water as a reminder of baptism while the “Glory to God in the highest” is sung (“Gloria in excelsis”).
The Mass then continues with the Collect of the particular Sunday in Eastertide as found in The Book of Common Prayer.
The Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water occurs during the Entrance Rite and after the Easter Acclamation which is sung, “Alleluia Christ is risen” to which the congregation sings in reply, “The Lord is risen indeed, Alleluia!”
Then, the priest addresses the congregation in these or similar words:
Dear friends, by water and the Holy Spirit we have been buried with Christ and raised to new life in him. Let us pray that the sprinkling of this water may recall to us our own baptism by which God has made us worthy to stand before him.
Then a Collect is sung:
O God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were cast down are being raised up, and things which had grown old are being made new, and that all things are being brought to their perfection by him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Each Sunday in Easter, for the Rite of Sprinkling with Holy Water, the tradition has been to use a different Collect or [Prayer] from the Liturgy of the Word from the Holy Saturday Night Great Vigil of Easter. Thus on the 2nd Sunday of Easter, the priest sings the Collect above found on page 291 of The Book of Common Prayer.
Then, on the third Sunday of Easter, another Collect is used from the Easter Vigil Liturgy of the Word, such as one of the Collects also on page 291, 290, 289 or 288 until we come down to the Seventh Sunday of Easter, the Sunday after the Ascension. The congregation is sprinkled with holy water as a reminder of baptism while the “Glory to God in the highest” is sung (“Gloria in excelsis”).
The Mass then continues with the Collect of the particular Sunday in Eastertide as found in The Book of Common Prayer.
