The Third Sunday after the Epiphany
The variation of Easter Sunday necessitates almost every year a different arrangement of the Sundays after the Epiphany from that in which they stand in the Missal. Septuagesima often comes in […]
Tag Archives: Pentecost
November 29 – Vigil of St Andrew & St Saturninus, Martyr
Christmas begins to glimmer on the horizon. The last Sunday after Pentecost has given us the closing instructions of the movable Cycle. Beginning with the twenty-seventh of this month, the present […]
Twenty-fourth Sunday after Pentecost
The number of the Sundays after Pentecost may exceed twenty-four, and go up as far as twenty-eight, according as Easter is each Year, more or less near to the vernal […]
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
For the years when the number of the Sundays after Pentecost is only twenty-three, the Mass for today is taken from the twenty-fourth and last Sunday: and the Mass appointed for […]
Twenty-second Sunday after Pentecost
According to Honorius of Autun, the Mass of today has reference to the days of Antichrist. (Hon. Aug., Gemm. an. 4:93) The Church, foreseeing the reign of the man of sin, (2 Thessalonians […]
Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost
The remaining Sundays are the last of the Church’s cycle; but their proximity with its final termination varies each Year, according as Easter was early or late. This their movable […]
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
The Gospel of last Sunday spoke to us of the nuptials of the Son of God with the human race. The realization of those sacred nuptials is the object which God […]
