The Festival of Pentecost

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 Jubilate

The Fourth Sunday of Easter

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Jublilate, Cantate, Rogate: These are the names of the next three Sundays beginning with today.  As the past few Sundays have been, these Sundays are named in Latin. So, here is your Latin lesson for the day. We begin with a bit of English grammar.

A sentence is made up of a subject and a predicate. The subject does the acting and the predicate tells you what the subject does. Every sentence, no matter how long it is, can be broken down into a subject and a predicate: “Frank walked” - Frank is the subject, walked is what Frank did (that’s the predicate). If one of those things is missing, the sentence is considered improper, not complete.

There is, however, one group of improper sentences that is used properly. These sentences are called imperatives. An imperative is a command in which the subject is not specifically stated but simply understood. An example of an imperative is, “Clean up that mess!” The subject is “you,” but it is not stated, it is understood:  “You, clean up that mess!”