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FOURTH PART
THE SEASON AFTER PENTECOST
CHAPTER I
General considerations. -- The Feast
of the Blessed Trinity.
Sources of the liturgy : Introit, Offertory and Communion :
adapted from Tobias, xn, 6. Epistle, Romans, xi, 33-36.
Gradual, Alleluia, Daniel, in, 35-52. Gospel, St. Matthew,
xxvin, 18-20. Offertory, Tob., xn, 6. Communion,
Tob., xn, 6,
The time after Pentecost comprises that part of the
liturgical year EXTENDING FROM THE FIRST SUNDAY
AFTER PENTECOST to THE FIRST SUNDAY OF ADVENT.
As we have already remarked, this time corresponds
to the AUTUMN SEASON. The Church, the great reaper
of souls, in her work of santification which she accom
plishes by the aid of the Holy Ghost during this time,
gathers the harvest which has ripened in the preceding
season, that is to say during Lent and Eastertide. This
last season of the liturgical year represents the matured
work of the Holy Ghost ; both IN THE WHOLE