March 26th, Holy Saturday, 8:00pm - The Great Vigil of Easter (w/incense)

....the most important service of public worship and Masses of the liturgical year,

The Great Easter Vigil Easter Vigil, also called the Paschal Vigil or the Great Vigil of Easter, is a service held in traditional Christian churches as the first official celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus.

It is held in the hours of darkness between sunset on Holy Saturday and sunrise on Easter Day - most commonly in the evening of Holy Saturday or midnight - and is the first celebration of Easter, days traditionally being considered to begin at sunset.

Among liturgical western churches including the Anglican Communion, the Easter Vigil is the most important service of public worship and Masses of the liturgical year, marked by the first use since the beginning of Lent of the exclamatory "Alleluia", a distinctive feature of the Easter season. Anglican Communion

Although the Easter Vigil is not universal in the Anglican Communion its use has become far more common in recent decades. Formerly it was only common in parishes in the Anglo-Catholic tradition, having been abandoned at the Reformation and recovered in the 19th-century.

The service, as provided for example in the current version of the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America follows more or less the same form as the Roman Catholic service. The service normally consists of four parts: 1. The Service of Light. 2. The Service of Lessons. 3. Christian Initiation, or the Renewal of Baptismal Vows. 4. The Holy Eucharist with the administration of Easter Communion