Eve of All Hallows

[alixtii]

My prof just e-mailed the class giving us an extension on our midterms until Monday. Great, now I get to have this paper hanging over me all weekend. Grrr.

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Anybody know what time the Hallowe'en parade on 6th Ave is?

*googles*

Starts at 7pm (when I'm in class), ends at 10pm. Getting to my subway (I still want to type Tube) stop to go home is going to be an adventure.

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I'm not sure, but I feel like the Eve of All Hollows fic I wrote based on a prompt from cadence_k two years ago (wait, have I really had this journal for that long?) is the first of all the ones that are now written which trace the liturgical calendar via fic. So I feel like I'm passing into a new year.

Which is appropriate, because All Saint's Day (Observed) will be celebrated at my church on Sunday (the actual holy day is tomorrow, and I have no doubt I will make a post for it), and for the first time in an insane number of weeks the hymn sign thing (does it have a name?) won't read "Xth Sunday After Pentecost." (One of the younger parishioners pointed out that it totally read "X1th Sunday" last week instead of "X1st.") We won't be singing the first verse of "America the Beautiful" for the offertory anymore (if I remember correctly, it switches to the third verse after All Saint's, or maybe it's some patriotic hymn or other to the turn of "God Save the Queen"--I forget). Ordinary Time is coming to an end. Change is in the air.

All Saint's Day is totally the first feast day I ever celebrated at my church and, as I've mentioned before, it was also the first feast day of the school year in high school and college. Freshman year the triduum of Hallowe'en/All Saint's/All Soul's was the most action packed three days of the school year.

So happy new year, everyone.

Comments

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

All Saints is one of my favorite feast days. Mostly, I think, because that sense of history and continuity is one of my favorite things about Catholicism.

But it's also because we get to sing "Sine Nomine." Ralph Vaughan Williams FTW.

[alixtii.livejournal.com]

Happy Solemnity!

Although it's technically All Soul's now, but that works too.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

And to you as well! It's actually still the first for me, because I'm in St. Louis and it's only a quarter to midnight.

My choir is singing in the All Souls' mass tomorrow (in fact, we're doing "Sine Nomine," which is nice because they didn't do it at mass tonight), which is also a good one, though the mass for it last year made me teary because my dissertation director had died the previous summer.