Understanding the Day
Season
Septuagesima
Week
Week 2 of Septuagesima
Rank
Weekday
Introit (Daily Prayer)
Awake! Why are You asleep, O Lord? Arise! Cast us not off forever! Why do You hide Your face, forgetting our oppression? Our bodies are pressed to the earth. Arise, O Lord, help us, and deliver us.
Ps 43:2
O God, our ears have heard, our fathers have declared to us.
Glory Be to the Father…
Through our Lord…
Weekly Prayer
Morning Offering
in union with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world, in thanksgiving for Your favors, in reparation for my sins,
for the intentions of all my associates, and in particular for the intention recommended by the Holy Father this month.
Weekly Formation
Hatreds, Rivalry, Jealousy, and Fury
The Works of the Flesh
Hatreds
Hatred deliberately wills evil to another person or rejects the good that charity requires for him. Dislike or painful emotion is not identical with hatred; the sin lies in the settled choice against another’s true good.
Rivalry
Sinful rivalry turns another person’s success into a threat and seeks victory, attention, or superiority without regard for justice and charity. Good competition can pursue excellence, but rivalry becomes a work of the flesh when defeating the other matters more than the common good.
Jealousy
Jealousy anxiously guards a good, relationship, or honor as though another person’s good necessarily deprived one of it. It becomes sinful when suspicion, possessiveness, or resentment overrides truth, trust, and charity.
Outbursts of fury
Outbursts of fury are eruptions of anger in which reason and self-command are surrendered to harmful words or actions. Their disorder lies in allowing passion to punish, frighten, or wound without the measure required by justice and charity.
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Peace
Peace is the tranquility produced when desires are rightly ordered within the soul and charity unites persons in the good. It is more than quiet or lack of conflict, since true peace depends on union with God, justice, and ordered love.
Featured Saint
Modern saintFriday of Week 2 of Septuagesima
Saint John Paul II
A biography or feast reflection has not yet been prepared.
Customs & Fasting
No traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional Friday complete abstinence.
Today in Church History
Election of Antipope Anacletus II
1130Schism HeresyOn February 13, 1130, Pietro Pierleoni was elected as Antipope Anacletus II, leading to a significant schism in the Church. His election was contested by Pope Innocent II, causing division until Anacletus' death in 1138.
The schism reminds us of the importance of unity and discernment in Church leadership.