Pentecost
This weekend is Pentecost Sunday. “On the day of Pentecost when the seven weeks of Easter had come to an end, Christ’s Passover is fulfilled in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, manifested, given, and communicated as a divine person: of his fullness, Christ, the Lord, pours out the Spirit in abundance” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 731).
Prayer to the Holy Spirit
V./ Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful.
R./ And enkindle in us the fire of your love.
V./ Send forth your Spirit and we shall be created.
R./ And you shall renew the face of the earth.
Let us pray:
O God, who instructed the hearts of the faithful by the light of your divine Spirit,
grant us by that same Holy Spirit to be truly wise
and to rejoice in your consolation through the same Christ, our Lord. Amen.
Solemnities of the Lord during Ordinary Time
After the celebration of Pentecost—the fiftieth and final day of the Easter season—the Church returns to Ordinary Time. The term “Ordinary Time” translates the Latin phrase tempus per annum (literally, “time through the year”). Ordinary Time designates the period of the liturgical year that is not tied a particular feast or preparation for a feast (Advent, Christmas, Lent, and Easter).
The two Sundays after Pentecost are solemnities (the highest category of feast day): the Most Holy Trinity (June 7); the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ, better known as Corpus Christi (June 14). While green vestments are typically worn on the Sundays in Ordinary Time, white vestments are worn on the solemnities of the season.