Questions to Guide Your Readiing

Readings from the Easter Vigil Mass

1. Compare what St. Augustine says about the relationship between the Old Testament and the New Testament with what you find in the Exultet in the Easter Vigil mass. 

2. What are the two most central and important events mentioned in the Exultet and what is the relationship between them for Christians?

3. Please be able to identify each of the nine readings assigned to the Easter Vigil mass and be able to say something about its significance.  (Note:  By "identify," I don't mean chapter and verse;  I mean that you should be able to tell me from what book of the Bible the reading is taken.)