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In the early centuries, the Church Fathers saw every Sunday
as another Easter Day. Pope John Paul II took up this theme in his encyclical on the Lord's Day, Dies Domini: every Sunday, he said, should be a celebration of the
Paschal Mystery, Christ's victory over all evil, and the initiation – for our sake – of God's final achievement in creation, in the Saviour's risen life.
The seasons of Lent and Easter, of course, are our
principal celebration of the Lord's Paschal Mystery. The seasons of Advent and Christmas were later added as a celebration of the dawn that looked forward to the triumph
that was to come. On the other Sundays which make up the Church's year, we follow the gospel story, seeking a greater knowledge of the One who was finally revealed, in
his Resurrection as our Lord and Saviour.
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