Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for Feasts Click here for more information. Overview and Connections Although not titled a Feast, today is, in fact, a feast day. It both closes the Christmas season and opens the season of Ordinary Time. It is very much a liturgical hinge and READ MORE
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Feast of Pentecost – Mass During the Day
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter Season Click here for more information. Today’s Readings In the Old Testament, Leviticus 23 talks about the Festival of Shavuot (Festival of Weeks), which happens 50 days after Passover. Traditional Judaism marks this as the day when Moses was given READ MORE
The Resurrection of the Lord – The Mass of Easter Day
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Easter Season In 1969 the General Norms for the Liturgical Year was approved by Pope Paul VI which implemented the reforms of Vatican II. This is what those norms say about the Easter season: In summary, the whole fifty days of Easter is like one long Sunday READ MORE
Solemnity of the Ascension
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Readings Today we celebrate the feast of the Ascension. Technically, Ascension happens 40 days after Easter, which is always on a Thursday. But most dioceses in the US transfer the feast to Sunday. READ MORE
Sixth Sunday of Easter
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Readings We are headed into the final stretch of the Easter season. Next week is Ascension, then Pentecost which closes out the season and transitions us back into Ordinary Time. The readings of READ MORE
Fifth Sunday of Easter
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Readings We continue the Easter season focus of the last 3 Sundays of Easter: putting faith into action. Themes for today include * Need to bridge tensions between conflicting views or groups within READ MORE
Fourth Sunday of Easter
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Reading and Feast The first three Sundays of Easter are focused on resurrection appearances – a reminder that Christ is still with us! Today marks a shift into a different emphasis: our ongoing READ MORE
Third Sunday of Easter
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Reading and Feast Peter and Luke both evoke the theme of life as a journey. For the first three Sundays of Easter, the Gospel will focus on the resurrection and then the other READ MORE
Second Sunday of Easter
Read the reflection and poem on Substack. The Lectionary and Scripture Interpretation for the Easter season Click here for more information. Today’s Reading and Feast This is Divine Mercy Sunday and it concludes the Octave of Easter. This is based on the devotion to the Divine Mercy that St. Faustina Kowalska reported as part of READ MORE