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Year B’s five-week early-summer plan

This is Year B of the liturgical cycle, the year that highlights the Gospel of Mark. With the passing of Pentecost, late Ordinary time begins, the longer, later segment of Ordinary Time that extends from the conclusion of the Easter Season until the beginning of Advent, from June to the end of November.

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The Trinitarian Coucils – Nicaea, Constantinople, and Ephesus

During the Fourth and Fifth Centuries, the Church was beset by conflict over different understandings of the God the Father, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, who they are and their relationship to each other. A series of three major ecumenical councils addressed these questions and progressively defined the Church’s doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity.

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The Ascension

The Seventh Sunday of Easter is the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, how the Father lifted the Son from the earth after the Resurrection, bought him back to heaven, and enthroned him in glory and power at his right hand (Mk 16:19; Acts 2:33; 5:31; 7:55,56; Eph 1:20). The Ascension is a major mystery of our Christian faith, so important that it is the second Glorious Mystery of the Rosary.

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St. Louis Mary de Montfort Priest, Confessor, Founder

St. Louis Mary de Montfort is also known as St. Louis Grignion de Montfort and St. Louis Mary Grignion. He was born on January 31, 1673, in Montfort in Brittany, France, the eldest of eight children in a very poor family. He entered the college in Rennes, France, at the age of twelve, where he was educated by the Jesuits.

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Palm Sunday of the Passion of the Lord A Dual Feast

It has traditionally been known as Palm Sunday because the Mass begins with a gospel text that recounts how palm branches were used to welcome Jesus into Jerusalem, and because palm branches are blessed at the beginning of Mass and carried in procession as part of the Entrance Rite. It has also traditionally been known as Passion Sunday because the Passion Narrative is proclaimed during the Liturgy of the Word.

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