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Week 32 · 3–7 May 2027 · Eastertide
Pentecost
Unit 11 · Confirmation: Isaiah 11 comes back. The child met the sevenfold Spirit resting on the shoot in December; in May it is poured on their own forehead.
Session A · the reading
About 55 minutes. Open and read aloud before any framing: no introduction, no “today we’re looking at”. Scripture first, then the Father.
- Acts 2:1–41
- Cyril, Mystagogical Catechesis III: the chrism
Session B · the argument
About 35 minutes, on another day. Never both in one sitting.
What is it for?. The chrism. Cyril answers it.
Video. Holy Spirit
Books this week
- A Catholic Bible with the deuterocanonical books
- Cyril of Jerusalem, Lectures on the Christian Sacraments
Optional: one piece of media
The Miracle Worker (1962). Watched together, with nothing said about why it was chosen; how the list was made.
The Ascension is kept in Canada on Sunday 9 May 2027.
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