Feeling like a cross between an Easter vigil and Mardi Gras, the week of mourning is hardly a somber affair.

这个星期的哀悼活动感觉像是融合了复活节前夕守夜礼和四月斋前夕的气氛，一点儿也不阴沉。

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On Saturday evening Pope Francis will celebrate the main Easter Vigil Mass in St Peter's Basilica.

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For Brother James, who comes from Nashville, Tennessee, this sweltering vigil is a bizarre way to be spending the week before Orthodox Easter a time of long, rather beautiful, services in which worshippers compare themselves to wedding guests awaiting the arrival of a beloved groom.

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