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THE PADRE'S PORTION 

Brothers and Sisters: We have passed through the high point of the Church’s liturgy. In fact, Easter Sunday was unofficially called, “High Sunday”. Have you ever noticed that the Octave of Easter starts on a Sunday, and ends on a Sunday? It follows that the Second Sunday of Easter (aka: the first Sunday after Easter Sunday) was called “Low Sunday”. During the last Century, this Sunday was re-titled as Divine Mercy Sunday. In the early Church, Low Sunday was celebrated with a certain tradition. The tradition was that on Low Sunday, the newly Baptized were asked to remove their white garments, and dress again in normal clothes. This signified that their new life in Christ was sending them back out into the world. The Gospel Reading for this Sunday (John 20) included the verse where Jesus says, “Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, so I send you.” [This Gospel passage was always the reading of this Sunday; never changed.] It is interesting to observe that this Sunday again starts a new week. The Church Fathers called this the Eighth Day. Does this also bring to your mind ideas like, “As the Father has sent me, so I send you”?                                                                                                 Fr. David Tate  

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Our Parish theme:

"I am the vine, you are the branches....

  for without me you can do nothing."                         

                                                              (John 15:5)

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