The theme of today’s Mass is proclaimed from the first word of the entrance antiphon, and repeated insistently throughout, “Rejoice” – or in Latin, “Gaudete”, from which today, the Third Sunday of Advent takes its name, “Gaudete” Sunday.

The entrance antiphon opens,

Rejoice in the Lord always; again I say, rejoice.

(Gaudete in Domino semper: iterum dico, gaudete).

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