Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional for Sunday, May 25th, 2025.

It's the fifth Sunday after Easter's second class with the color of white.

In this episode, the liturgical year on Holy Communion during pascal time, the meditation, love that is bred.

Today's news from the church, the German church

pressures Pope Leo the 14th, and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Afev. But first the

call act of today's Mass, O God, from whom all good things do come, grant to us thy humble

servants that by thy holy inspiration, we may think those things that

be good, and by thy merciful guiding, may perform the same.

Today's thought from the liturgical year on Holy Communion during Pascal time.

In Passion Tide, the Christian went to Holy Communion, impressed with these words of the Apostle.

As often as you shall eat this bread and drink the chalice, you shall show the death of the Lord.

He united himself with the divine victim immolated for the sins of the world.

During pascal time, the heavenly food produces its effects in another manner.

It fortifies the life of the soul, and gives to the body the germ of immortality. It is true that in each season of the liturgical year, this twofold

effect is produced in those who worthily receive Holy Communion, namely immolation and resurrection.

But as during the days consecrated to the passion, the application of the

mystery of emulation and sacrifice is more direct and more in accordance with the sentiments of

the communicant, so also, during pascal time, the divine contact of the body of our risen Jesus

makes us feel in a way that Easter alone can do that to the Holy Eucharist we owe the future resurrection

of our bodies. We must therefore approach the holy table during Eastertide with an ardent

ambition for our resurrection, knowing as we do that we then receive into our bodies an element

which is to preserve them, even when turned into dust,

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