Dear Family!

This year we are blessed to celebrate a collection of solemnities ever since we celebrated the solemnity of Ascension followed by Solemnity of Pentecost, Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity, Solemnity of Corpus Christi and today we celebrate the Solemnity of St. Peter and St. Paul. We also celebrated two other solemnities during the last week (Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist and Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus).

Dear Family!

The Collect for the Solemnity of Corpus Christi is read as follows: “O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever. Amen.” Saint Thomas Aquinas.

Dear Family!

The Doctrine of Trinity is called a ‘mystery’ because this truth can never been known by reason alone. Only God can reveal the truth to us (CCC 261). This is not unique to Christianity: it transcends all religions and is a key ingredient of universal life and culture (Diarmuid Murchu). The Trimoorthy of Hinduism, the Buddhist doctrine of the three bodies, the Zoroastrian triplicate of Zurvan, the Egyptian cult of Isis, Seraphis and the divine child Horus and some thirty thousand years of traditional Trinitarian worship in the prehistoric times all point to the same One God seen in three persons.

Dear Family!

Pentecost is traditionally a Jewish Feast. It is one of the three pilgrimage feasts in the Jewish Calendar (Passover and Tabernacles are the other two). The scriptures taught the people to travel to Jerusalem for these feasts; thus, they were called pilgrimage feasts. (Ex 23:14-17). The Feast of Pentecost is celebrated on the 50th day after the Passover; it was also called the Feast of the First Fruits as people harvested at this time and thank God for their first fruits.

Dear Family!

We are blessed indeed to celebrate the Solemnity of the Ascension of our Lord Jesus Christ on this Sunday. At one time it was celebrated on the Thursday before the 7th Sunday in Easter. It has been permanently moved to the 7th Sunday of Easter by our Bishop.

The Catechism teaches us, “Only the one who "came from the Father" can return to the Father: Christ Jesus. "No one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of man.”