After the Easter season ends, it is moved from the sanctuary to the baptismal font, and is only lit at baptisms and funerals. The meaning and symbolism are quite beautiful and have inspired me to make a smaller version for my home.
The question is, will it stay lit? So I went ahead and bought the supplies and created a candle representative of what we would see in a church. I encourage you to make one, too. Place a piece of paper underneath your design to prevent marker ink from bleeding onto the surface of your table. Using a ruler, draw a cross in the middle of the tissue paper. Using the letter and number stencils, create the Alpha and Omega above and below the cross, leaving some space for the brads.
Add the numbers for the current year within the four corners of the cross as shown. Augustine of Hippo makes casual mention in his City of God of composing a laus cerei in verse believed to bear a smilarity to our Exultet. Eusebius c. Other Fathers of the Church, like St. Gregory Nazianzus and St. Gregory of Nyssa c. In the early Church the Easter Vigil also saw the reception of the catechumens after their lengthy period of preparation. In evidence that stretches back to Tertullian c.
Whether consciously or not, the Paschal Candle came to symbolise Christ, the true light, surrounded by His illuminated, the newly baptised, each holding a smaller light.
In the virgin wax a later symbolism recognised the most pure flesh which Christ derived from His Blessed Mother, in the wick the huma soul of Christ, in the flame the divinity of the Second Person of the Trinity.
During the middle ages the tendency was to glorify the Paschal Candle by making it bigger and bigger. THe Sarum Processional of directs that the Paschal Candle, presumably that of Salisbury Cathedral, is to be thirty-six feet in length, while, in , under Queen Mary, there is a record of three hundred weight of wax being used for the Paschal Candle of Wesminster Abbey.
Today, the stipulation is that the candle should be large, but not impossible for one person to lift. Because of what the Paschal Candle represents, the Risen Lord in His Glory, the candle should be made of fine quality wax, preferably pure beeswax.
All Rights Reserved. Under the terms of the licence agreement, an individual user may print out a PDF of a single entry from a reference work in OR for personal use for details see Privacy Policy and Legal Notice. Oxford Reference. Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. For commodity's sake, one was also allowed to bless a smaller candle for the vigil and then expose a larger one for Eastertide, provided that it had been blessed at least once.
In the present rite the candle used for the Easter Vigil should be new. In places where the vigil has not been celebrated, such as weekday and convent chapels, I think it is legitimate to continue using previously blessed Easter candles if still in decent condition.
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