Course Name: Vigil. Topic: 2


Course 5

Topic 2.


Types of Vigil.

All-night vigil.


Candlelight vigil.


Christian burial.


Vigil (liturgy)


Wake.


 All-night Vigil

Transports the faithful into a time long ago, into the services of the earliest Christians. For the earliest Christians, their evening meal, their prayers and commemoration of the martyrs and of the reposed, as well as, the Liturgy itself comprised one whole; traces of these observances have been preserved even to this very day in the various evening services of the Orthodox Church. These traces include the blessing of bread, wine, wheat, and oil, as well as, those times in which the Liturgy is combined in one whole with Vespers; for example, the Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, celebrated during Great Lent; the liturgies on the eves of the feasts of the Nativity of Christ and of His Baptism; the Liturgies of Great Thursday and Great Saturday, and the midnight Liturgy of the Resurrection of Christ.


Candlelight Vigil 

is an outdoor assembly of people carrying candles, held after sunset in order to show support for a specific cause.

Vigils may also have a religious or spiritual purpose. On Christmas Eve many churches hold a candlelight vigil. Candlelight vigils are seen as a nonviolent way to raise awareness of a cause and to motivate change, as well as uniting and supporting those attending the vigil.


Christian burial Vigil 

the friends and family gather together before the actual funeral service. Here they exchange memories, read prayers, and hymns are sung – it is generally considered a celebration of life. This ceremony usually occurs at the bereaved family's home, a Christian church, or even at the funeral home.


Wake.

The custom of watching by the dead (the wake) is an ancient practice probably derived from the similar Jewish custom of a pious vigil over the remains. Its origins are not entirely known. This was a Christian observance, attended with the chanting of psalms.


Vigil liturgy. 

In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday. The Latin term vigilia, from which the word is derived meant a watch night, not necessarily in a military context, and generally reckoned as a fourth part of the night from sunset to sunrise. The four watches or vigils were of varying length in line with the seasonal variation of the length of the night.


A few solemnities are "endowed with their own Vigil Mass, which is to be used on the evening of the preceding day, if an evening Mass is celebrated". The readings and prayers of such vigil Masses differ from the texts in the Masses to be celebrated on the day itself. 


Solemnities that have a vigil Masses are:


Easter Sunday, The Ascension of the Lord, Pentecost.

The Nativity of St John the Baptist (24 June)

St Peter & St Paul (29 June)

The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary (15 August)

The Nativity of the Lord (25 December)

The Epiphany of the Lord (6 January or Sunday between 2 and 8 January

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