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CHURCH and in EACH INDIVIDUAL CHRISTIAN SOUL. The
Church, under the influence of the Holy Ghost expands,
develops and produces a rich harvest for the day of
her eternal triumph. Each soul of whom the Church
is composed is being sanctified as it, made perfect
under the influence of the divine Spirit, also gathers
fruit for the day in which it will take its place in the
home of the eternal Father. The series of Sundays
after Pentecost, more or less in number according to
the date on which this Feast falls in each year, brings
before us this TWO-FOLD DEVELOPMENT of the Church
at large and of each faithful soul individually, beneath
the continuous and vivifying action of the third person
of the Blessed Trinity.
The Church inaugurates this season with three Feasts
very
dear to all the faithful : that of the Blessed
Trinity which is celebrated on the first Sunday after Pen
tecost, the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament on the fol
lowing Thursday, and that of the Sacred Heart on
the Friday immediately following the Octave of the
Feast of the Blessed Sacrament. Before going through
the series of Sundays after Pentecost, we shall give some
particulars about each of these Feasts.
Throughout the WHOLE OF THE LITURGY the Church
renders ADORATION TO THE BLESSED TRINITY, first by
frequent invocations of the three divine Persons, and
particularly by the three-fold repetition of the Sanctus,
either said or sung in all Masses; 2nd. by the Gloria
Patri at the end of the Psalms, and the Doxology at
the end of the hymns; 3rd. by the ancient usage of
consecrating every Sunday to the Blessed Trinity. It
was fitting that the first day of each week sanctified by
prayer should remind us of the great mystery which is
the foundation of all Christionity, but throughout