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Fr. Peter George Flynn presents a delightful and erudite Catechesis on the many names given to the Sunday that closes the Easter Octave. He traces the origins of each: Low Sunday (the Great Sunday’s modest echo); Dominica in Albis (named not after the alb of a painting but after the white baptismal garments the newly baptised wore throughout the Octave before laying them aside on this day); Quasimodo Sunday, where a long and cheerful digression into Victor Hugo establishes that the hunchback was named after the Sunday, not the other way around — because the Archdeacon Frollo finds the foundling baby on this day in the cathedral.

The episode ties all these threads together through the entrance antiphon “Quasi modo geniti infantes” (like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk), and Fr. Peter ends with a sharp pastoral challenge to those who welcome new converts: don’t water down the gospel for these newborn infants, and don’t leave them abandoned on the cathedral steps like poor Quasimodo.

L'articolo Catechesis – Bishop Alphonsus Cullinan on public display of Faith – Fr Peter George Flynn OFM proviene da Radio Maria.