At the end of Mass, we are sent to glorify the Lord by our lives, to announce the Gospel of the Lord in the world. This is what gives us the strength we need to live our faith the rest of the week.Īt Mass, we unite our lives, our prayers and works, our sufferings and joys, with Jesus. And then to share with them the vital necessity of being nourished by the greatest gift: His Body broken and given up for us and His Blood poured out for us. It is important to share with them the importance of gathering to listen to the Word of God, to be nourished by the Table of His Word. It is important that parents teach their children why we go to Mass on Sunday. We gather to profess faith in His resurrection. We gather to do what Jesus commanded us to do in remembrance of Him. Of course, the heart of the observance, the celebration, of Sunday, should be Sunday Mass. In addition to attending Mass, keeping the Lord’s day holy also means using the day to relax, reach out to others and enrich our families.
So I invite you to ask yourselves: how do you and your family observe Sunday? Do you live it consciously as the day of the Risen Christ and the day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit? At it is a day not only to remember the past events of Easter and Pentecost, but to celebrate the living presence of the Risen Lord and of the Holy Spirit in our lives today.Ī family attends Mass at El Cristo Rey Chapel in Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona Aug. Therefore, Sunday is the Church’s preferred day for the celebration of the sacrament of Baptism. This was the day of the first proclamation of the Gospel and the first baptisms were celebrated on the day of Pentecost. Pentecost, the day of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, fell on a Sunday. It is also significant that Pentecost took place on Sunday. That’s why Saint Basil the Great spoke of Sunday as “holy Sunday.” We can say with the psalmist every Sunday: “This is the day which the Lord has made: let us rejoice and be glad in it (Psalm 118:24).” Sunday is the day of the Risen Lord. It is good for parents to remind their children every Sunday that today we are celebrating Jesus’ Resurrection. Our whole Christian faith rests on this fundamental event, absolutely unique in human history: the Resurrection of Jesus. We celebrate the dawn of the new creation. Every week, on Sunday, we celebrate Christ’s victory over sin and death. Do we think of Sunday that way, or as just a day off from work or a day when we have to go to Mass? Sunday is, as John Paul wrote, “the festival of the new creation” ( DD 8). Saint John Paul II wrote that “Sunday is a day which is at the very heart of the Christian life” ( Dies Domini 7). How do we observe the Lord’s Day? Do we keep Sunday holy? In reflecting on these questions, it is good to recall why we observe Sunday as the Day of the Lord to begin with.
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