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May
12
The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity
May 12, 2008 |
How often have we made the sign of the Cross and invoked the name of the triune God without thinking about what we were doing? In its original meaning the sign of the Cross was, each time it was made, a renewal of our Baptism, a repetition of the words by which we became Christians, and an assimilation into our personal life of what was given us in Baptism without any active contribution or reflection on our part. Water was poured over us and, at the same time, the words were spoken: “I baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”
The Church makes us Christians by calling on the name of the Trinitarian God. From her beginning, she has expressed in this way what she regards as the truly definitive mark of our Christianity: faith in the triune God. . . [The Church’s] proper orientation is not to our hopes, our fears, or our wishes, but to God, to his majesty and his power. . .We must, therefore, learn anew to take God as our starting point when we seek to understand the Christian existence. This existence is belief in his love and faith that he is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
From The God of Jesus Christ by Joseph Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI
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can you please tell me when is the fest day of the Immaculate Heart of Mary this year?
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In 1942, the twenty-fifth anniversary of Fatima, Pope Pius XII consecrated the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. That same year, he assigned the feast day to August 22, the octave of the Assumption. On May 4, 1944, he extended the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary to the Universal Church. With the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council in 1969, the feast was given a more suitable place on the day following the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. That is the Saturday after the second Sunday after Pentecost.
This year the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is on May 30, 2008 and the Memorial for the Immaculate Heart of Mary is on May 31st (which happens to coincide this year with our celebration on May 31st of the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary).