The bells that will ring during the <i>Gloria</i>.The new fire.The paschal candle and its maker, a first-year seminarian.Blessing of the new fire.The thurifer lights the coals of the censer in the fire.The celebrant traces on the candle the sign of the cross, the letters Alpha and Omega, as well as the four digits of the year.The candle is then lit.Entrance into the chapel with the chant of <i>Lumen Christi</i>.The celebrant blesses the deacon before the chant of the <i>Exultet</i>.Chant of the <i>Exultet</i>.The deacon then sets aside the white dalmatic to take up the violet stole.First reading: the account of Creation.Opening Prayer.Second reading: the crossing of the Red Sea.The schola singing the responsorial chant <i>Cantemus Domino</i>.Third reading: messianic prophecy of the Prophet Isaiah.Fourth reading: excerpt from Deuteronomy.Prostration of the ministers during the Litany of the Saints.The ministers then proceed to the sacristy to take up the white vestments.The flowers that will adorn the altar.<i>Confiteor</i>.Incensation of the altar.Intoning of the <i>Gloria</i>.The altarpiece of the Christ Child King, veiled since Passion Sunday, reappears to the triumphant chant of the organ and bells.Singing of the Epistle.Singing of the Gospel.The subdeacon pours a drop of water into the chalice.Office of Lauds: incensation of the altar.Postcommunion.<i>Ite missa est, alleluia, alleluia</i>.Final blessing.
