Daily Mass - Easter Tuesday

I'm a little late with this post, but here we are. I don't have too much to say, but I'll post a nice picture as soon as I find one. Mass was offered this Tuesday for the intentions of A. B.; may she be blessed in the Risen Lord. The gospel reading continued with another of the Easter stories, in this case, that of Saint Mary of Magdala discovering the risen Christ. Meanwhile, the first reading deals with the ending of the Holy Father Saint Peter's first homily on Pentecost Sunday; what was the result?

"'...Let it be known, then, beyond doubt, to all the house of Israel, that God has made him Master and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified.' When they heard this, their consciences were stung; and they asked Peter and his fellow apostles, 'Brethren, what must we do?' 'Repent,' Peter said to them, 'and be baptised, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, to have your sins forgiven; then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. This promise is for you and for your children, and for all those, however far away, whom the Lord our God calls to himself.' And he used many more words besides, urgently appealing to them; 'Save yourselves,' he said, 'from this false-minded generation.' So all those who had taken his words to heart were baptised, and about three thousand souls were won for the Lord that day." - Acts of the Apostles 2: 36-41

Wonderful, isn't it? Three thousand in a day. Most of these were pilgrims to Jerusalem for the holy days. They took the message with them to their own communities across the Roman Empire and beyond and, later on, missionaries like Saint Paul found native Christian communities in many of the towns and cities that they visited. Anyhow, here's the picture I promised. It is Christ's descent into Hades (remember that that is one of the articles of faith in the Apostle's Creed) on what we would recognise as Holy Saturday; there He will have discovered, among others, many characters from the Old Testament period, including patriarchs, kings and prophets, many of who had seen His triumph over death in vision, but now behold it at last in reality. There He will have discovered also His beloved step-father, Saint Joseph, our holy patron, and probably Saint John the Baptist. The artist is the Austrian Emmanuel Kratky,