The 2011, the revised English translation of the Roman Missal restored the mention of bees found in the original Latin version of the Exsultet: The Proclamation of Easter. I have no inside information ...

The Exsultet is the Proclamation of Easter; it is the standard hymn for the Easter vigil in the West, according to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The fresco of the Resurrection of the Lord ...

It wasn’t until I was a Jesuit novice, age 28, that I even knew there was such a thing as an Easter Vigil. In 1989, when I was working in Kingston, Jamaica and went to my first Vigil Mass at a ...

The Great Vigil of Easter. Begun in complete darkness on the church lawn, the liturgy includes the lighting of the Paschal candle, the Exsultet, the Prophecies and the First Eucharist of Easter. The ...

SOON it will be Christmas Day and all the merriment will reach its zenith. At the Midnight Mass the story of the birth of Jesus, son of Mary and, for all Christians, son of God, will once more be ...