Easter Sunday

[velvetpage]

My church doesn't usually do this, but I love the ritual of it, so the rules are the same as those in church: if you know the response and believe it, you give me the reply (in comments) and pass the message on in your own journal. Please do not participate if you do not believe it to be true.

Christ is risen!

Comments

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

Alleluia, Christ is risen.
The Lord is risen indeed, alleluia.

An Anglican tradition (it's probably more widespread than that) is that starting with Ash Wednesday and throughout Lent, the "alleluias" are left out of the service. There are a couple of places that we say it, mainly at the fraction anthem ("Christ our Passover is sacrificed for us, therefore let us keep the feast." with an alleluia at the beginning and the end) and the dismissal ("Let us go forth in the name of the Lord." "Thanks be to God. Alleluia."). It's a small reminder that the joy is dampened while we look forward to the Passion.

When the Easter morning service begins with "Alleluia, Christ is risen." it's a signal of the joy that we find in the resurrection. During the season of Easter (until Whitsunday or Pentecost), we actually double the alleluia at the dismissal. It's a tiny, but neat tradition.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I knew there was at least one person on my friends list who would know the response! Thank you.

[kesmun.livejournal.com]

*G* I was probably the most enthusiastic "alleluia"-er at the service yesterday - and the nave was PACKED.