Who was baptized at an easter vigil mass?”
El Dorado woman, 94, baptized into Catholic Church at Easter Vigil By: Joan Hershberger – – Published: 04/04/2010 Easter baptism Father Gregory Pilcher, center, prepares to baptize Meg Hilliker, 94, during the Easter Vigil Mass at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in El Dorado. The Mass was held Saturday night. EL DORADO – To honor the memory of her late father and his impact on her life, in her 94th year, Meg Hilliker chose baptism into the Catholic Church. She was baptized Saturday evening during the Easter Vigil Mass at Holy Redeemer Catholic Church. The daughter of a Catholic father, Frank Mullins, and Methodist mother, Frances Mullins, and married by a Catholic priest but not married in the church, Hilliker has always attended both Protestant and Catholic services and schools. Throughout her life, Hilliker has attended a Catholic service every fi…
This evening in St. Peter’s Basilica, during a Holy Saturday liturgy (the Easter Vigil Mass), Pope Benedict XVI gave a profound homily in which he spoke of “the true cure for death.” What is it? It involves being clothed in “robes of glory.” How? In baptism… By Robert Moynihan, reporting from Rome ============================== ======= A Profound Easter Vigil Sermon pope with candlesROME, Italy, Saturday, April 3, 2010 — Tonight at 9 p.m. in St. Peter’s Basilica, I attended the Holy Saturday evening liturgy which celebrates the Vigil of Easter Sunday — the Vigil of the Resurrection. The ceremony is special because it begins in darkness, and then, from a single candle, lights up, as the faithful light candles, one from another, throughout the basilica. (Photo of Pope Benedict entering St. Peter’s carrying the Easter candle, by Albert Cesare. Cesare, 22, a young American photographer, has been accredited by the Vatican Press Office during this Holy Week. This is the first photo of th
