Sunday 12 May 2024
Seventh Sunday of Easter
The Seventh Sunday of Easter comes between the Ascension of the Lord last Thursday and the Vigil and Feast of Pentecost (Whit Sunday) next weekend.
We can join with the disciples and Our Lady in the Cenacle as they await what Our Lord had promised them before He ascended to His Father, “His abiding presence among us”, in the words of today’s Collect, and as was foretold by the two angels immediately after the Ascension.
With Our Lady may have waited Saint Matthias, after he had been chosen to replace Judas in the college of the 12 Apostles (today’s first reading), giving thanks to the Lord (Psalm 102).
In his first letter, Saint John describes his own direct experience of Our Lord Who “lets us share His Spirit”, and in his Gospel Saint John repeats the mission that he was given with the other Apostles to be “sent … into the world” even though they “do not belong to the world”.
We too are sent into the world to share “our faith in God’s love” (Epistle), with the encouragement and example of Our Mother Mary, whose feast of Our Lady of Fatima Holy Church celebrates on Monday.
Here we have some other views and comments on this Sunday’s Mass.
Sunday Introduction
St. Benet's Minster Catholic Church, Beccles 