{"id":50001,"date":"2015-04-05T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-05T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/easter-vigil.html"},"modified":"2015-05-07T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T13:05:09","slug":"easter-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/easter-vigil.html","title":{"rendered":"Easter Vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the Easter Vigil service much more than Easter Day. The crowds are less. There are fewer distractions by Easter Bonnets and Easter Eggs and pastels (not that there&#39;s anything wrong with pastels).  I just find the Vigil service to be more contemplative, more symbolic in its passage from darkness into light, a better way to ring in the ecclesiastical New Year.<\/p>\n<p>We all three served down at Good Shepherd last night &#8212; <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103453067516847485667\" oid=\"103453067516847485667\">Kay Hill<\/a><\/span> as an acolyte, <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\"><span class=\"proflinkPrefix\">+<\/span><a class=\"proflink\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103328827291075446110\" oid=\"103328827291075446110\">Margie Kleerup<\/a><\/span> as a Eucharistic Minister (doling out the wine at communion, as well as carrying the cross in and out).  I was more on the performance side &#8212; singing parts of the Exsultet (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exsultet\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Exsultet<\/a>, though we did the Episcopal version). I also narrated a video based on Ezekiel&#39;s vision of the bones (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A1%E2%80%9314&amp;version=NRSV\">https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Ezekiel+37%3A1%E2%80%9314&amp;version=NRSV<\/a>), which was perfect for a &quot;Voice of God&quot; guy like me.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of one&#39;s theology (or lack thereof), the passage from darkness to light, from mourning to joy, from despair to hope, is a profound experience, and one that is I think extensible beyond the walls and people in a church or a particular faith.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Easter, all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6134347359560706113\/6134347365391863922'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-GuTOcPin-vo\/VSGUbXsJEHI\/AAAAAAADMd8\/Qb961pTgeyI\/20100403EasterVigilMassIMG_7215EasterVigilCandle.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/Kit9ns2KkUz'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy the Easter Vigil service much more than Easter Day. The crowds are less. There are fewer distractions by Easter Bonnets and Easter Eggs and pastels (not that there&#39;s anything wrong with pastels). I just find the Vigil service to be more contemplative, more symbolic in its passage from darkness into light, a better &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/05\/easter-vigil.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Easter Vigil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,57,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-religion-my-parish","category-religion-me"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20100403EasterVigilMassIMG_7215EasterVigilCandle.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129864,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/17\/the-myth-of-easter-island.html","url_meta":{"origin":50001,"position":0},"title":"The Myth of Easter Island","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Feb-16 2:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"If you came upon an island that had lots more stonework than you thought the current population could produce, and there were all these obsidian spearheads discarded everywhere, and the population continued to be in decline -- you might very well come up with a theory about warfare, ecological collapse,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133256,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/04\/11\/if-you-cant-take-care-of-the-little-things.html","url_meta":{"origin":50001,"position":1},"title":"If you can&#039;t take care of the little things","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Apr-17 10:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As major American institutions and critical bits of national governance, the White House Easter Egg Roll is hardly up there with wartime decisions, fiscal policy, or promoting the general welfare.And yet, as a century-plus institution, it's a tradition that one would expect the White House to be able to plan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":130885,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/16\/good-words.html","url_meta":{"origin":50001,"position":2},"title":"Good words","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Jun-16 10:20am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know anything about Utah's Lieutenant Governor. 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