The actual Pentecost event occurred on the Jewish Feast of Pentecost. The Jewish Feast is also known as the Festival of Weeks which was the completion of the seven weeks following Passover. This was a time of Thanksgiving during which the harvest took place and the first fruits were brought to the Temple. The day […]
Today’s scriptures reflect on the experience of the disciples following the Ascension; Saint Luke reports the Ascension of Jesus twice, once at the end of his Gospel (Luke 24:50-53) and again at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 1:6-12), which we hear today. In the dioceses of Pennsylvania we celebrated the Ascension […]
This Gospel is part of what is known as the Last Supper Discourse. They had a difficulty understanding this when they heard it before the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Jesus. We hear it, not only after these events, but also after both the Ascension and Pentecost. We also have two thousand years of Christianity […]
Mass from the Mary Mother of Mercy Mausoleum Chapel.
Most Rev. Edward C. Malesic, bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, ordained one Benedictine monk a priest and one a deacon on Saturday, May 23, at the Saint Vincent Archabbey Basilica. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the ordination Mass was not open to the public. Father Ignatius Camello, O.S.B., has been serving in the Diocese […]
Archabbot Douglas R. Nowicki, O.S.B., will celebrate an online Memorial Day Service at 9 a.m. Monday, May 25, from the Mary Mother of Mercy Mausoleum Chapel on the Saint Vincent campus. The service will honor those who have died while serving our country. The service can be viewed at: https://vimeo.com/user109924459, on the Archabbey and Seminary […]
