links/sources:
- "Holy Saturday- At the Easter Vigil" (readings/responses 2015) (USCCB):
http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/040415.cfm
- "Easter Vigil" (Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Vigil
- missalette/etc
PART I = THE SERVICE OF THE LIGHT
BLESSING OF THE FIRE
PREPARATION OF THE EASTER CANDLE
PROCESSION
EASTER PROCLAMATION (EXSULTET)
PART II = THE LITURGY OF THE WORD
1st READING: Genesis 1: 1, 26-31a (or Genesis 1: 1 - 2: 2)
RES. PSALM: Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
2nd READING: Genesis 22: 1-2, 9a, 10-13, 15-18 (or Genesis 22: 1-18)
RES. PSALM: You are my inheritance, O Lord. (or The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.)
3rd READING: Exodus 14: 15 - 15: 1
RES. PSALM: Let us sing to the Lord; he has covered himself in glory.
4th READING: Isaiah 54: 5-14
RES. PSALM: I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
5th READING: Isaiah 55: 1-11
RES. PSALM: You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation
6th READING: Baruch 3: 9-15, 32 - 4: 4
RES. PSALM: Lord, you have the words of everlasting life.
7th READING: Ezekiel 36: 16-17a, 18-28
RES. PSALM (when baptism is celebrated): Like a deer that longs for running streams, my soul longs for you, my God.
RES. PSALM (when baptism is not celebrated): You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation. (or Create a clean heart in me, O God.)
GLORIA
COLLECT
EPISTLE: Romans 6: 3-11
ALLELUIA and PSALM: Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.
GOSPEL: Mark 16: 1-7
*PART III = THE LITURGY OF BAPTISM
LITANY:
- Lord, have mercy.
- Christ, have mercy.
- Lord, have mercy.
- (Holy Mary, Mother of God...All holy men and women, Saints of God) Pray for us.
- (Lord, be merciful...By the outpouring of the Holy Spirit) Lord, deliver us, we pray.
- (Be merciful to us sinners...Jesus, Son of the living God) Lord, we ask you, hear our prayer.
- Christ, hear us.
- Christ, graciously hear us.
BLESSING OF BAPTISMAL WATER
RENEWAL OF BAPTISMAL PROMISES
PRAYER OF THE FAITHFUL
*PART IV = THE LITURGY OF THE EUCHARIST
PRESENTATION OF THE GIFTS
PRAYER OVER THE OFFERINGS
PREFACE OF EASTER I
SANCTUS
ACCLAMATION
THE COMMUNION RITE:
- THE LORD'S PRAYER
- INVITATION TO PEACE
- INVITATION TO COMMUNION
- PRAYER AFTER COMMUNION
CONCLUDING RITE:
- SOLEMN BLESSING
- DISMISSAL
