So for this calling we pray during the Easter season for the outpouring of the Holy Spirit in abundance. Reflecting on these Gospel texts is a wonderful way to prolong the celebration of Easter. Yet only Christ’s Holy Spirit can sustain us in offering ourselves for such witness. Throughout history and throughout our own lives, it is our calling to continue to be faithful witness to the news of the Resurrection. In all of this, the waves of impact from the news of the Resurrection continue to spread throughout the world that God created, bringing peace to His people on earth and glory to God in the highest. First, they must preach penance for the remission of sins, and then suffer inevitably for standing up for what is true. Whats the Easter Octave The Easter Octave is the first eight days of the Easter season, from Easter Sunday to today, the second Sunday of Easter. After He leaves the earth, it will be up to them to act in His name. As Pope John Paul II pointed out in his Regina Caeli address on Divine Mercy Sunday, 1995: the whole octave of Easter is like a single day, and the Octave Sunday is meant to be the day of thanksgiving for the goodness God has shown to man in the whole Easter mystery. On the day of the Resurrection, Jesus is preparing the apostles for the day of His Ascension. This is the goal of our lives as Christians: not merely to learn about Jesus, but to enter into His life and saving mission. Low Sunday, so called perhaps in contrast to the great Easter solemnity is also known as Quasimodo, from the first words of the. Our days of rejoicing continue from Easter Sunday with a week.
Only in the Eucharist do we share in the Sacrifice of Jesus on the Cross, and become members of Christ’s Body. Good morning, and welcome to our prayer service to begin our meeting during this Octave of Easter. It is only in “the breaking of the bread” that the disciples come to know Jesus, and it is only in this that they become more than disciples.
Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.