Mastodawn

#EasterVigil is in the books. Had a decent turnout, we didn’t burn the building down, and the church smells like incense.
It’s the best service of the year.
Breakfast between services was great, and now the down time until the next service starts.
#Easter #SLECBuffalo #Episcopal #PriestLife

Linebyline Apr 4

I love how the Easter Vigil liturgy specifically calls out bees. In the short version, the Easter candle is referred to as "the work of bees and of your servants' hands," while the long version refers to the flames shared from the Easter candle by the congregation's candles as "fed by melting wax, drawn out by mother bees to build a torch so precious."

"Mother bees," that's adorable.

#Easter #EasterVigil #HolySaturday #Catholic #Bees

Jack Groundhog 📷📸🪶Apr 4

Vigil
A #poetry thread

A portal with a warning line,
this cave’s mouth made of blackened stone.
A journey split from mortal time —
into the black. Cries, echoes, groans.

Down I descend to frozen depths.
A poet, partner, pulls me on
past popes and princes who, plaintive, wept
for what to them is neverdawn.

🧵👇🏼

#poem #poemaday #catholic #anglican #easter #eastervigil #monochrome #blackandwhite #photography

hugo.Apr 4

Holy Saturday, the quietest day of the church year. A day of mournful emptiness, but also hopeful anticipation.

"Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning." (Ps 30:5)

#eastervigil #holysaturday #christian #christianlife

Ennius Apr 4

Bees gathering nectar; and a bee-keeper gathering wax for the paschal candle #EasterVigil BL Add MS 30337; the Monte Cassino Exultet Roll; c.1075 CE-c.1080 CE; Southern Italy (Monte Cassino); membrane 10 @[email protected]

Ennius Apr 4

Initial 'E'(xsultet) depicting a monk in front of a lectern and a paschal candle, singing the Exsultet. Next to him is the name 'Hugo'. #EasterVigil BnF MS Latin 13765; Collection including Exultet; 11th century (end); France (Jumièges); f. Br @[email protected]

Ennius Apr 4

Exsultet iam angelica turba cælorum #EasterVigil Bodleian Library MS. Canon. Bibl. Lat. 61; Gospel Lectionary (Benedictine Use); 1081 CE–1086 CE; Italy, Dalmatia, Zadar (Zara); f.115v @[email protected]

Ennius Apr 4

The Pascal candle being censed at the singing of the Exsultet. #EasterVigil BL Add 30337; Monte Cassino Exultet Roll; c.1075 CE; Italy, S. (Monte Cassino); f.9 @[email protected]

Ennius Apr 4

'Exsultet iam angelica turba caelorum: exsultent divina mysteria: et pro tanti Regis victoria turba insonet salutaris.' #EasterVigil BL 30337; Monte Cassino Exultet Roll; c.1075; Italy, S. (Monte Cassino); m 11 @[email protected]