Easter Saturday. The Station Is At The Papal Arch-Basilica Of Saint John Lateran.

English: Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

The Cathedral of the Bishop of Rome.

Latin: Archibasilica Sanctissimi Salvatoris et Sanctorum Iohannes Baptistæ et Evangelistæ in Laterano Omnium

urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput.

Español: Basílica de San Juan de Letrán, catedral

del Obispo de Roma, Italia

Italiano: Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano, Roma

Polski: Bazylika św. Jana na Lateranie (znana jako.

Bazylika Laterańska), katedra biskupa Rzymu, Włochy

Português: Basílica de São João de Latrão,

catedral do Bispo de Roma, Itália

Photo: September 2005.

Source: Own work.

Author: Stefan Bauer, http://www.ferras.at

(Wikimedia Commons)

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.

Easter Saturday.

Station at Saint John Lateran.

Indulgence of 30 Years and 30 Quarantines.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

On coming out of The Baptismal Font, The Neophytes were given a White Garment (a White Veil is now placed over the newly-Baptised during The Baptismal Ceremonies) as a symbol of the effects of Baptism on their Souls: "All you who have been Baptised have put on Christ" (Communion). They continued to wear it until the day known as "sabbatum in albis depositis" ("The Saturday on which White Vestments are laid aside"), because, on that day, at Saint John Lateran, their Baptismal Robes were taken from them.

The Church, seeing "those New-Born Babes" (Epistle) gathered around her, asks them, by the mouth of Saint Peter, her Head, ever to drink The Spiritual and Pure Milk of The True Doctrine.

And in that Basilica, dedicated to The Holy Redeemer, she reminds them that their Souls are The Living Stones of a Spiritual House, of which Christ is The Corner-Stone. The Gospel also shows us The Prince of The Apostles, who, even before Saint John, realised The Resurrection of Christ, of which he is to be Witness to The Whole Church.

Mass: Edúxit Dóminus.
From this day, until The Feast of The Blessed Trinity, the Gradual is replaced by two Versicles with four Alleluias.
Sequence: Victimæ pascháli laudes.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: For Easter.
Communicantes: For Easter.
Hanc igitur: For Easter.

English: The Lateran Palace (on the Left)

besides the Papal Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran.

Deutsch: Das Bild zeigt den Lateranspalast

und das Seitenportal der Lateransbasilika

von der Piazza S. Giovanni in Laterano aus.

Italiano: Facciata laterale della Basilica di San Giovanni

in Laterano, con a sinistra il Palazzo Laterano

Photo: September 2004.

Source: Own work.

Author: Maus-Trauden

(Wikimedia Commons)