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Volumes have been written on both Vigils and Vigil as well as their respective evolutions, but here's a short & quick reply on a Sunday morning for our purposes here. Vigils is another term for the night office (aka Matins, Office of Readings, etc.). A vigil is a celebration of the eve of a feast. Cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigil for a brief overview.
Stan Metheny
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From: Cecilia Gaposchkin
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Subject: Re: [M-R] saints of the day 20. September
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Let me ask a question that I should really know the answer to. What is vigil, and how does it relate, if in any way, to vespers and or matins? (has this already been covered? I way not following the earlier discussion)
All I get from the Grove Dictionary of Music is:
article url: http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com:80/subscriber/article/grove/music/47782
Vigils
(Lat., from vigilia: 'watch'). A service performed during the night within the monastic tradition of the early Church. See Matins.
cecilia
On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 8:52 PM, John Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
John Dillon wrote:
Today (20. September) is the feast day of:
In the York Calendar, Vigil of St Matthew
[We never did establish when a vigil starts, quite possibly because I'm the only one interested... I would guess that if the day is a feria, the the vigil starts at Matins. If it is a feast, then the feast is either trumped by the vigil, or the vigil is trumped by the feast - in which case there is a nocturn of the vigil at Matins. But that's just a guess.]
John Briggs
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