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Msgr. Roger Landry: Gaudete Sunday: Rejoice in the Lord Always – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Msgr. Roger Landry: Gaudete Sunday: Rejoice in the Lord Always

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Left: Carl Heinrich Bloch, “The Visitation,” 1866. Right: Pope St. Paul VI in 1969. (photo: Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)

By Msgr. Roger Landry, National Catholic Register, December 14, 2025

Monsignor Roger Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River (MA), is National Director of the Pontifical Mission Societies. He can also be heard on EWTN radio’s Conversations with Consequences every weekend.

COMMENTARY: Gaudete Sunday invites us to taste already the joy that comes from knowing our Savior is coming for us out of love.

Msgr. Roger LandryOn Gaudete Sunday, we have another reason to rejoice this year: 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of St. Paul VI’s apostolic exhortation on Christian joy, Gaudete in Domino (“Rejoice in the Lord always”) from Philippians 4:4, the same expression from which the Third Sunday of Advent gets its nickname.

While we sing of joy throughout the Advent season — “Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel!” — this Sunday’s Mass begins with a special imperative taken from St. Paul’s charge to the first Christians in Philippi: Gaudete semper in Domino. Iterum dico: Gaudete! (“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I say: Rejoice!”). The fundamental reason for our special joy is because, as St. Paul mentions in the next verse, “the Lord is near” (Philippians 4:5). Gaudete Sunday invites us to taste already the joy that comes from knowing our Savior is coming for us out of love. ….

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