Extended Vigil of Pentecost Service

Amarillo—The public is invited to attend as Bishop Patrick J. Zurek presides at an Extended Vigil of Pentecost Service Friday, May 17 at 7:00pm at St. Laurence Church, 2300 North Spring.

On Jan. 16, 1988, the Congregation for Divine Worship issued Paschale Solemnitatis, the Circular Letter Concerning the Preparation and Celebration of the Easter Feasts. For the Vigil of Pentecost, number 107 of that Letter encourages “the prolonged celebration of Mass in the form of a Vigil, whose character is not baptismal as in the Easter Vigil, but is one of urgent prayer, after the example of the apostles and disciples, who persevered together in prayer with Mary, the Mother of Jesus, as they awaited the Holy Spirit.”