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jsburbidge ([personal profile] jsburbidge) wrote2014-03-11 10:03 am
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Sometimes even cradle RCs get it wrong

From 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.)