Sometimes even cradle RCs get it wrong
Mar. 11th, 2014 10:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidgeFrom Tim Powers' Declare, referring to the 1920s:
"On Easter, Andrew and his mother would attend midnight Easter Vigil Mass at Stow-on-the-Wold..."
In the 1920s, universally, the Easter Vigil was held at 11:00 AM on Holy Saturday morning, allowing the Triduum fast to end at 12:00 noon. It was not restored to its midnight position until the mid-1950s.
(AC use varied: some parishes followed the Sacred Congregations strictly; SMM, at least by the 1940s, had the vigil late on Saturday afternoon "followed by a spaghetti supper", according to an informant who was there. But no RC parish would have had Vigil at midnight.)
"On Easter, Andrew and his mother would attend midnight Easter Vigil Mass at Stow-on-the-Wold..."
In the 1920s, universally, the Easter Vigil was held at 11:00 AM on Holy Saturday morning, allowing the Triduum fast to end at 12:00 noon. It was not restored to its midnight position until the mid-1950s.
(AC use varied: some parishes followed the Sacred Congregations strictly; SMM, at least by the 1940s, had the vigil late on Saturday afternoon "followed by a spaghetti supper", according to an informant who was there. But no RC parish would have had Vigil at midnight.)
