Although the liturgy is enacted in segments, following the temporal course of the events of the Passion, it is in fact one liturgy of the Passion. Medieval English tradition reflected this in the use of a single liturgical color, the so-called Passiontide Red, or Oxblood, which was not used at any other time of the year but was used throughout the week of the Passion, from Palm Sunday until the change to festal vestments at the Paschal Vigil. In the early Church, the Paschal Mystery was quite literally celebrated in one liturgy. Our Paschal Vigil represents the tail end of a true all-night vigil, which began after dark on the Eve of the ancient Christian Pascha and featured the reading of the prophecies, followed by the Gospel accounts of the Passion and Resurrection. The Vigil included the Baptism of catechumens and, of course, culminated in the celebration of the Eucharist. Later, particularly in Jerusalem where events could be celebrated in the places in which they actually occurred, this single liturgy began to be broken up and spread over several days, losing some of the outward sense of continuity. But it remains a single liturgy, unified by its single overarching theme: the love of God that redeems us.