This Sunday is Pentecost, one of the principal feasts in the liturgical cycle of the Church: a day of joyful celebration, commemorating the descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostles, on the fiftieth day of the Easter season.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Sunday after the Ascension. In the Gospel reading for this Sunday we return to the Farewell Discourse delivered by Our Lord to His disciples following the Last Supper.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Fifth Sunday after Easter. We are nearing the Ascension now, only four days away, the day of Our Lord’s departure to rejoin His Father in Heaven.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Fourth Sunday after Easter. Even in this season of joy, there is an element of sadness; as the Gospel reading recalls for us the farewell discourse delivered by Our Lord to His disciples at the Last Supper.
Continue readingThis Sunday is the Third Sunday after Easter. The Gospel reading for this Sunday presents a notable example of the way in which Jesus could sometimes baffle even His closest followers. “A little while,” he tells them, “and now you shall not see me: and again a little while, and you shall see me: because I go to the Father” (John 16:16).
Continue readingThis Sunday, the Second Sunday after Easter, is known as “Good Shepherd Sunday” because of the message conveyed by Jesus in the Gospel reading: “I am the good Shepherd.
Continue readingThis Sunday is known as Low Sunday, but it is also listed in the Roman Calendar of 1962 as The Octave Day of Easter and Dominica in Albis. It was known as Quasimodo Sunday in the past, and in recent decades it has come to be called Divine Mercy Sunday.
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