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2nd Sunday of Easter A, “My Lord and My God”

This Sunday, the second of Easter, has several names:

It is the ‘Octave Day’, meaning it is still Easter Sunday, but we call it ‘Low Sunday’ to distinguish it from last Sunday. St John Paul II designated this Sunday ‘Divine Mercy Sunday’, the culmination of the novena to the Divine Mercy devotion given to St Faustina. Today, is also ‘Thomas Sunday’, recalling the apostle’s profession of faith, ‘My Lord and my God’.

Occasionally, it is referred to as ‘Quasimodo Sunday’, a play on words of the entrance antiphon “Quasi modo geniti”, meaning ‘as new-born infants’, to mark that this Sunday the newly baptised have now taken their place amongst us as full members of the body of Christ. We pray for the ‘Elect of God’, adults recently baptised throughout the ‘Guildford Catholic Parish’ and our own parishioners received into Full Communion with the Catholic Church.

Regardless of its name, we know that being a Sunday, it is the celebration of the Resurrection. I would like to thank everyone who made the celebrations and commemorations of the Sacred Paschal Triduum & Easter Sunday such wonderful expressions of our faith. May the joy of the Resurrection help us celebrate right through to Pentecost. Fr. Simon.