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Summary of comments of this office by Dom Schuster, in his work L'année liturgique. Whereas the other feasts of the year - Christmas, the Epiphany, Pentecost - lasted, for our fathers, scarcely three or four days, it was the characteristic of the paschal solemnity to be prolonged for a whole week, only ending on the following Saturday in Albis, while the following Sunday the neophytes would lay aside their white baptismal robes.At Rome during the entire time there was a continuous feast. Business affairs were put on hold, courts were closed, marriages were postponed. Every morning everyone would go to celebrate the station at the most famous basilicas of the city, and in the afternoon the people would assemble again at the Lateran basilica to accompany the neophytes to the baptismal font and to the different oratories that surrounded this sanctuary. The antiphon of the Introït, preceding Psalm 104, is inspired by Exodus (13:5,9), and is addressed to the neophytes: "The Lord hath brought you into a land flowing with milk and honey: that the law of the Lord may be ever in your mouth. Give glory to the Lord, and call upon His name: make known His deeds among the nations."
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