Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 2 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Sunday or semidouble observance

This day falls in the Time after Pentecost, the long portion of the liturgical year that follows the Easter season and focuses on the life and mission of the Church. The celebration is the seventh day within the Octave of Corpus Christi. An octave is an eight‑day extension of a major feast; each day inside the octave shares in the feast’s joy and liturgical importance. The rank “Semidouble” is an older canonical classification indicating a relatively important observance: in practical family terms, it means the day keeps the character of the feast—special prayers, readings, and customs connected to Corpus Christi—without replacing all ordinary weekday elements. The octave invites ongoing reverence and gratitude for the gift of the Eucharist.

Introit (Daily Prayer)

Ps 118:75; 118:120
I know, O Lord, that Your ordinances are just, and in Your faithfulness You have afflicted me. Pierce my flesh with Your fear; I fear Your ordinances. (Alleluja, alleluja.)
Ps 118:1
Happy are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord.
Glory Be to the Father…

O God, Who made blessed Queen Margaret glorious by her remarkable charity toward the poor; grant, by her intercession and example, that Your charity may continually increase in our hearts.
Through our Lord…

Weekly Prayer

Prayer to the Holy Family

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
bless us and grant us the grace
to love and serve God faithfully,
to honor one another with patience and charity,
and to make our home a dwelling place of peace.

Holy Family of Nazareth,
help us to grow in faith, hope, and love.
Guide our work, our rest, our words, and our choices,
so that in all things we may seek the will of God.

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph,
pray for us and protect our family. Amen.

Weekly Formation

Commandment 7

The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt not steal.
The Seventh Commandment protects another person’s rightful goods and the justice owed in work, trade, promises, and contracts. It forbids taking, keeping, damaging, or using what belongs to another without right and requires restitution when an injustice can be repaired.

Saint & Feast

Principal celebrationCalendar title

Day 7 within the Octave of Corpus Christi

A biography or feast reflection has not yet been prepared.

Commemoration

Margaret of Scotland

St. Margaret, Queen and Widow

Queen of Scotland from 1070 to 1093

Born: 1045-01-01 · Baranya County
Died: 1093-11-16 · Edinburgh

Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". She was a member of the House of Wessex and was born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile. She and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After the family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070.

Today in Church History

Death of Frederick Barbarossa
1190Event
Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, a key figure in the Third Crusade, drowned on June 10, 1190. His death was a significant blow to the Crusader forces, impacting the Church's efforts in the Holy Land.
Even the mightiest rulers are subject to God's will, reminding us of the transient nature of earthly power.

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ’s Passover and the sacramental offering of his unique sacrifice in the Church’s liturgy. It is not merely a recollection of past events: when the Church celebrates the Eucharist, Christ’s Passover is commemorated and his once-for-all sacrifice on the cross remains present. The Eucharist is therefore a sacrifice, for it makes present the sacrifice of the cross, remembers it, and applies its fruit. Christ’s sacrifice and the sacrifice of the Eucharist are one single sacrifice, though the manner of offering is different. In the Mass, the Church joins herself to Christ’s offering and intercession for all people. As the faithful bring their praise, sufferings, prayers, and work, these are united with Christ’s total offering and acquire a new value. This is a beautiful invitation for our daily prayer: to place all that fills our lives before the Lord and unite it with his sacrifice.

In the Eucharist, the whole Church is united with the offering and intercession of Christ. The Pope is associated with every celebration as the sign and servant of the unity of the universal Church, and the local bishop’s name is mentioned as a sign of his presidency over the particular Church. The Church offers the Eucharistic sacrifice in communion with the Blessed Virgin Mary and all the saints, standing as it were at the foot of the cross with Mary, united to Christ’s offering and intercession. The sacrifice is also offered for the faithful departed who died in Christ but are not yet wholly purified, that they may enter into the light and peace of Christ. As a family, we can receive these words with gratitude, praying in communion with the whole Church, the saints, and the faithful departed.

Baptism is a profound sacrament that symbolizes both death and purification, as well as regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit. Through Baptism, original sin, personal sins, and all punishment for sin are forgiven, so that nothing remains to impede entry into the Kingdom of God. The baptized become new creatures: adopted children of God, members of Christ, coheirs with him, and temples of the Holy Spirit. Yet suffering, illness, death, human weakness, and the inclination to sin remain, calling us to resist sin courageously through the grace of Jesus Christ. For families reflecting on Baptism, this is a hopeful reminder that Christian life is rooted in the grace received there: faith, hope, love, the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and growth in goodness through the moral virtues.

Today's Mass Readings

Open the day's Sancta MissaDivinum Officium · Divino Afflatu - 1954View readings

Day 7 within the Octave of Corpus Christi

Understanding the Day

Introit (Daily Prayer)

Collect

Weekly Prayer

Prayer to the Holy Family

Weekly Formation

Commandment 7

The Ten Commandments

Saint & Feast

Day 7 within the Octave of Corpus Christi

Margaret of Scotland

Today in Church History

Death of Frederick Barbarossa

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Today's Mass Readings

Baltimore Catechism No. 3