Sunday — The Trinity & the Resurrection
The Lord's Day. The eighth day. *Haec dies quam fecit Dominus* — this is the day the Lord has made.
Haec dies quam fecit Dominus. Sunday is not the seventh day rebranded — it is the eighth, the day after the Sabbath, the day of the Resurrection, the day the world was made new. Every Sunday is a little Easter, and the great act of every Sunday is the Mass. What follows is not its substitute; only what the tradition has prayed on Sundays for sixteen centuries — glorification of the Trinity, thanksgiving for the empty tomb, and the great hymn that has closed Matins on every Sunday since the time of Ambrose.
Today
An eight-minute Sunday guide — an opening from Psalm 118, a reading on the eighth day, the Te Deum, the doxology three times, and the collect of Trinity Sunday.
Go Deeper
For a longer Sunday — the day's Mass, the Trisagion of the seraphim, and the great hymn of thanksgiving itself.