Q: Focusing on the Vigil, does GIRM (Sacramentary) contain anything about receiving baptized candidates into full communion at the Easter Vigil? I have looked at it a number of times and I recall earlier editions having that but the most recent (2011 perhaps) does not. Is that correct?
What about celebrating Confirmation & Eucharist for Catholics at the Vigil? Does GIRM have anything for that?
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A: I don’t remember the GIRM ever addressing the reception of baptized candidates at the Easter Vigil. That is an American thing that started with the 1988 RCIA.
The confirmation and communion of Catholics at the Vigil has always been part of RCIA/OCIA 409, even in the typical edition at 304. The revised English translation has clarified the parameters of that paragraph, which was nearly incomprehensible in the 1988 book (IMHO).