The Gospel; photo: pkw
On account of the snow the Easter Procession, in which the Risen Lord, “really, truly, and substantially present” in the Monstrance, is carried under a golden canopy, and which usually takes place out of doors, took place in the cloisters.
The Procession; photo: http://www.stift-heiligenkreuz.org/
Since the Easter Mass is celebrated together with the Parish of Heiligenkreuz, the brass band of the village of Heiligenkreuz played for the procession. They played the greatest of all German Easter Hymns, “Der Heiland ist Erstanden”– a march of tremendous triumph, with such heroic majesty, and with such Germanic seriousness, violence almost.
