Category:Pentecost I

The Feast of the Most Holy Trinity is always observed on the first Sunday after Pentecost. However another mass for Domenica I. post Pentacosten is provided on page 311 of the Graduale Romanum. John Cadwell (Medieval Music, Indianna 1978) explains as follows: "¬like the other 3 Sundays following an Ember Week [the Sunday after Pentcost] had no Mass of its own. In this case the gap was filled by the votive Mass of the Holy Trinity; but in some places an alternative procedure, whereby the Masses of the succeding Sundays were moved back one week en bloc, had already been adpted. This resulted in the confusing situation found in the modern Romn Gradual, in which the now superfluous Mass for the first Sunday after pentecost is retained for use on the first vacant feria."

These propers have been assigned for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time since 1970, following the Second Vatican Council and the adoptation by many churches of the three-year lectionary. The three pericopes are organized around the Gospels of Matthew 5:38-48 (the other cheek), Mark 2:1-12 (healing of the paralytic at Capernaum), and Luke 6:27-38 (do unto others).