Q: This year, we are not going to have baptisms at the Easter Vigil and, checking in the Missal, the rubric 42 of the Easter Vigil says that “If no one is to be baptized and the font is not to be blessed, the Litany is omitted, and the Blessing of Water (no 54) takes place at once.”
However, on your post of March 21, 2020, you say that “ Even without baptisms, the litany is to be sung in places where baptisms will take place during the year. It is omitted only in places – such as chapels – where there are no baptisms at all.” Would you like to clarify your statement. If ever we are going to have baptisms during the year, we always bless the water and have the shorter version of Litany for the infant baptisms. The liturgy of the Tritium is already complicated and confusing, kindly help us.
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A: What I wrote is my interpretation of the rubrics. If you have any baptisms during the year, then the font is blessed at the Easter Vigil as part of the celebration of the resurrection of the Lord.
For more on Holy Week, see my book Glory in the Cross.
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