Sts. Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus are celebrated during the Time After Pentecost, the long season following Pentecost when the Church focuses on growth in Christian life and witness. The feast is ranked Semidouble in the older liturgical terminology: in plain language that means it is an important local or communal celebration that keeps a fuller set of prayers and readings than an ordinary weekday, but it is not as solemn as a major feast. There is no octave or vigil attached in the information given, so this day is observed as a single celebration within the week of the Time After Pentecost.
Introit (Daily Prayer)
Ps 36:30-31 The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom, and his tongue utters what is right. The law of his God is in his heart. (Alléluia, alléluia.) Ps 36:1 Be not vexed over evildoers, nor jealous of those who do wrong. Glory Be to the Father…
Commemoration Ss. Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, Martyrs With our strength renewed from having shared in Your sacred gift, we beseech You, O Lord our God, that by the intercession of blessed N., Your Martyr, we may feel the benefit of the worship we are offering. Through our Lord…
Weekly Prayer
Memorare
Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thy intercession, was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my Mother. To thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful.
O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me. Amen.
Weekly Formation
Prayer, Fasting, and Almsgiving
Three Eminent Good Works to Overcome Our Sinfulness
Prayer
Prayer raises the mind and heart to God in adoration, thanksgiving, repentance, and petition. As a work of penance it turns the sinner back toward God, acknowledges dependence on grace, and joins personal needs to the honor owed to Him.
Fasting
Fasting is the willing restraint of food or other lawful satisfactions for a spiritual purpose. It disciplines bodily appetite, expresses sorrow for sin, and strengthens prayer when practiced with humility rather than display.
Almsgiving
Almsgiving is the gift of money, goods, time, or practical assistance to those in need or to works of charity. It makes repentance fruitful in mercy, loosens attachment to possessions, and recognizes Christ’s claim in the poor.
Saint & Feast
Principal celebration
Largus
Sts. Cyriacus, Largus and Smaragdus, Martyrs
Christian martyr
Born
0300-01-01
Died
0303-01-01 · Rome
Cyriacus, sometimes Anglicized as Cyriac, according to Christian tradition, is a Christian martyr who was killed in the Diocletianic Persecution. He is one of twenty-seven saints, most of them martyrs, who bear this name, of whom only seven are honoured by a specific mention of their names in Roman Martyrology.
The marriage of King James IV of Scotland to Margaret Tudor in 1503 at Holyrood Abbey was significant as it strengthened ties between Scotland and England, impacting the political landscape of the time. This union also had implications for the Catholic Church, as it fostered a Catholic alliance in the British Isles during a period of religious tension.
Unity in Christ can lead to peace and collaboration among nations.
Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism teaches that our passions—our feelings and emotions—are natural parts of human life and can dispose us toward beatitude. Love, desire, joy, fear, sadness, and anger are among the principal passions. In themselves, these feelings are neither morally good nor evil; their moral character depends on how they engage reason and will. When governed by reason and directed by an upright will, they can contribute to good actions, virtue, charity, and beatitude. In the Christian life, the Holy Spirit works in the whole person, including sorrows, fears, and sadness, so that human feelings may reach their fulfillment in charity and divine beatitude. As we reflect together, we can acknowledge our feelings and ask that they be directed toward the good, with hearts moved to love.
¶ 1765
There are many passions. the most fundamental passion is love, aroused by the attraction of the good. Love causes a desire for the absent good and the hope of obtaining it; this movement finds completion in the pleasure and joy of the good possessed. the apprehension of evil causes hatred, aversion, and fear of the impending evil; this movement ends in sadness at some present evil, or in the anger that resists it.
¶ 1766
"To love is to will the good of another." All other affections have their source in this first movement of the human heart toward the good. Only the good can be loved. Passions "are evil if love is evil and good if it is good."
Christian saint, martyr and a deacon of Rome (225-258)
Born
0225-12-31 · Osca
Died
0258-08-10 · Rome
Saint Lawrence or Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the city of Rome under Pope Sixtus II who were martyred in the persecution of the Christians that the Roman emperor Valerian ordered in 258.
In themselves passions are neither good nor evil. They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage reason and will. Passions are said to be voluntary, "either because they are commanded by the will or because the will does not place obstacles in their way." It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason.
¶ 1768
Strong feelings are not decisive for the morality or the holiness of persons; they are simply the inexhaustible reservoir of images and affections in which the moral life is expressed. Passions are morally good when they contribute to a good action, evil in the opposite case. the upright will orders the movements of the senses it appropriates to the good and to beatitude; an evil will succumbs to disordered passions and exacerbates them. Emotions and feelings can be taken up into the virtues or perverted by the vices.
¶ 1769
In the Christian life, the Holy Spirit himself accomplishes his work by mobilizing the whole being, with all its sorrows, fears and sadness, as is visible in the Lord's agony and passion. In Christ human feelings are able to reach their consummation in charity and divine beatitude.
¶ 1770
Moral perfection consists in man's being moved to the good not by his will alone, but also by his sensitive appetite, as in the words of the psalm: "My heart and flesh sing for joy to the living God."
¶ 1771
The term "passions" refers to the affections or the feelings. By his emotions man intuits the good and suspects evil.
¶ 1772
The principal passions are love and hatred, desire and fear, joy, sadness, and anger.
Baltimore track
Baltimore Catechism No. 3
Lesson 21 — On Indulgences
Q. 843.How many kinds of Indulgences are there?
A.There are two kinds of Indulgences--Plenary and Partial.
Q. 844.What is Plenary Indulgence?
A.A Plenary Indulgence is the full remission of the temporal punishment due to sin.
Q. 845.Is it easy to gain a Plenary Indulgence?
A.It is not easy to gain a Plenary Indulgence, as we may understand from its great privilege. To gain a Plenary Indulgence, we must hate sin, be heartily sorry for even our venial sins, and have no desire for even the slightest sin. Though we may not gain entirely each Plenary Indulgence we seek, we always gain a part of each; that is, a partial indulgence, greater or less in proportion to our good dispositions.
Q. 846.Which are the most important Plenary Indulgences granted by the Church?
A.The most important Plenary Indulgences granted by the Church are (1) The Indulgences of a jubilee which the Pope grants every twenty-five years or on great occasions by which he gives special faculties to confessors for the absolution of reserved sins; (2) The Indulgence granted to the dying in their last agony.