A day on which rose vestments may replace
penitential purple, this Sunday was once well known by the Latin adjective,"Gaudete." This imperative, "rejoice," opens the processional and the second reading and permeates all the others.

This liturgy is the last Mass scheduled for the fall semester.

Readings, Year B: Is 61:1-2a, 10-11; Lk 1:46-48, 49-50, 53-54; 1 Thes 5:16-24; Jn 1:6-8, 19-28