Easter Vigil

Easter festival meetings are masses and we commemorate the great suffering of Jesus. He was crucified on the cross so that someday we can spend with him and God. In most cases, worship begins around 7 o'clock and takes place in church buildings with church staff. For symbolic purposes, there is no holy water; we are blessed during the ceremony itself to commemorate the oath that we swore between baptism. Everyone was given a candle when all the lights disappeared on a large scale.

If you have participated in the Easter meeting, you have witnessed a unique event in the year of the church: the blessing of fire and the lighting of the Passover candle. Even if you are not participating in the Easter meeting, you will still see this candle when you go to the mass during Easter. It continued to light up until the Pentecost during the liturgy between special places in the sanctuary near the Gospels. The Passover candle has a beautiful meaning for Christians, its rich symbolism and origin is in the early centuries of Christianity. The use of a candle may begin with the actual purpose of providing light, even for this purpose it allows the candle to symbolize Jesus as light to overcome the darkness of resurrection. This is the reason why the candle ignited at the Easter Saturday Easter Festival rally and passed through the church in the dark during the parade.

281 Therefore the resurrection of the resurrection of the newly created blessing in Christ begins with the record of creation, and in the Byzantine rituals the record of creation always constitutes the first reading of the Lord's great festival people . According to ancient witnesses, the teachings of baptism follow the same itinerary. It covers the foundation of human and Christian living: it clearly shows the reaction of Christian faith to the basic questions people ask theirself: 120 "Where are you from?" "Where are you going "What is the end of us?" "Where is everything?" These two questions are inherently related to the origins and those related to the end, but they are inseparable. They are decisive for the meaning and direction of our lives and behavior.