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March 28, 2005
Happy Easter, I think.
Sorry to whine, but my parochial loyalty meant that I subjected myself to a Dan Schutte/Suzanne Toolan songfest; there were tambourines. I had to read the Exsultet to myself (Schutte used much of the text but arbitrarily rearranged it) and then look up a sound file on Sunday. I'm really not particularly musical, but the Exsultet is a great, great thing, in English or Latin I found this version via, of all places, Samizdata.net - Adriana Cronin likes it, too.
This is two years in a row for the particular musical selections we had at the Vigil. I think that next year I may call around and find a parish singing something less objectionable.
There was one utterly odd and unrubrical experience - rather than asperging the congregation with the newly blessed water between the baptisms and the confirmations we were invited to come forward and "bless ourselves with the water." This, of course, took even longer than the communion; there was only one basin of water (well, plastic punch bowl, I think) in the front center. Without extraordinary ministers of the renewal of our baptism it took a LONG time. I think that innovations which make the Easter Vigil slower than it already is are not a good thing. Maybe someone thought it would give us a chance to stretch and move around in the middle of things?
Posted by CrankyProfessor at March 28, 2005 8:25 AM