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Dear St. V's,
Preparing for Holy Week and Easter, many helpers put their hands to many tasks (see our Easter Breakfast request, below). Among them are the nine St. V's parishioners completing their Vigil presentations. Here are notes on this year's first and last Vigil hours.
The first hour, God’s Extravagant Creation, will consider the Creation story in light of what science tells us about the way the universe evolved. We see about 94 billion light-years worth of our still-inflating balloon of a universe. But we think it was once infinitesimally small, without space or time. This is the story of how we got from there to here in the most insanely creative act on record, and the over-the-top Creator who stuck us in it.
As dawn approaches, the final Vigil hour finds us chanting and meditating on The Psalms. The Psalms are truly the Church's prayer book, and Jesus himself prayed them during his life on earth. Hence, they ought to be an integral part of every Catholic's prayer life. We will learn how to sing a Psalm like the Benedictine Monks at Conception Abbey.
On this holy night, we keep watch, awaiting Christ's return in glory. While we wait, we recount the great stories of the history of salvation. We are thankful for those who tell these stories, and help us to reflect on them.
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