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But what shall be said in defence of the manifest fraud which is annually practised in Jerusalem on Easter-eve by the Greek church, when the credulous multitude are taught to believe that fire descends from heaven into the Holy Sepulchre to kindle their lamps and torches?
Alleluja Vespers end of the mass: mass of Pope Marcellus Ceremonies at S. John Laterans. Blessing of the font: baptistery baptism of adults litanies and confirmation mass and ordination Armenian catholics their liturgy; and high mass on Easter-eve reflections Conclusion. "But now Christ is risen from the dead, the first-fruits of them that sleep". 1 Cor.
It being Lent when I came hither there was no buying any flesh till Easter-eve, when a great number of bullocks were killed at once in the slaughterhouses within the town, men, women and children flocking thither with great joy to buy, and a multitude of dogs, almost starved, following them; for whom the meat seemed fittest, it was so lean.
Ildegonde's church, eight years last Easter-eve. At which the old man turned pale, and then began again to upbraid the lady, vowing that he would have her burnt alive, and other devilish words, to which she answered at last "'Would that you had burnt me alive on my wedding morning, and spared me eight years of misery! And he "'Misery? Hear the witch, senors!
Service of Easter-eve Ceremonies of holy-saturday-morning Sixtine chapel. 1. Blessing of the fire and incense-procession; Paschal candle the deacon sings the Exultet triple candle 2. Baptism administered on this day: communion of children in former times prophecies 3. The litany: invocation of Saints change from mourning to rejoicing High mass: sacred pictures etc.
The service, which is now performed before noon on holy Saturday, was formerly assigned to the night of Easter-eve: and this anticipation accounts for the occasional mention of night, which it contains, as well as for the early celebration of Christ's resurrection.
I remarked in the last chapter, that anciently mass was not said either on good-friday, or holy-saturday, and I quoted Pope Innocent I, who assigns as a reason the example of the Apostles, who spent those days in mourning for their Master. It was formerly customary to celebrate mass on the night of Easter-eve or holy Saturday.
Grotius writes to Vossius on Easter Sunday 1615 , that on that day he reckoned thirty-two years: He dates another letter to Vossius the twenty-fifth of March 1617; Easter-eve, "which, he observes, begins my thirty-fifth year."
They obey his call; they do his will; they show forth his glory; they return to life, they breed, they are preserved, by the same spirit by which the body of Jesus rose from the dead; and, therefore, every flower which blossoms, and every bird which sings, at Easter-tide; everything which, like the seeds, was dead, and is alive again, which, like the birds, was lost, and is found, is a type and token of Christ, their Maker, who was dead and is alive again; who was lost in hell on Easter-eve, and was found again in heaven for evermore; and the resurrection of the earth from her winter's sleep commemorates to us, as each blessed Easter-tide comes round, the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ, who made all the world, and redeemed all mankind, and sanctifieth to eternal life all the elect people of God: a witness to us that some day life shall conquer death, light conquer darkness, righteousness conquer sin, joy conquer grief; when the whole creation, which groaneth and travaileth in pain until now, shall have brought forth that of which it travails in labour; even the new heavens and the new earth, wherein shall be neither sighing nor sorrow, but God shall wipe away tears from all eyes.
He only drank on Easter-Eve, and that at the request of the said Madeira, a little water, in which an onion had been boiled, according to his own direction. On that very day, the wind came about into a favourable quarter, and the sea grew calm, so that they weighed anchor, and continued their voyage.
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