The Great Vigil begins in darkness outside the church on the terrace. Each person is given a candle, lit from the Paschal Candle, as we listen to the lessons recounting God's saving acts of creation, preservation, and redemption under the Old Covenant. In them are powerful symbols of water and fire; of death and rebirth; of Passover that was, is, and is yet to come. We hear the Word, let it possess us, and actively respond in song and prayer. Please bring your own candles and bells to worship in your home.

The Rev. Jarrett Kerbel, officiant

Readers: James Fairburn, Anne Swoyer, Barbara Dundon, Court vanRooten, and Lydia Ogden.

Thanks to bell ringers: The Rev. Barbara Ballenger, The Rev. Jarrett Kerbel, Lyn Loewi, Mary Button, Barbara Dundon, John Needles, and Richard and Constance Haggard.

Contributing videography by William Previdi.

Exsultet sung by Krystianne Cooper. Public domain.

Collects cantored by the Rev. Anne Thatcher.

Alleluia No. 1 descant and harmonization - Betty Carr Pulkingham, Music - ©1979 Celebration. Sung by Molly Kanevsky.

Permission to podcast/stream the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-701187. All rights reserved.

Photographs and graphics by the Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields.