Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 12 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
Introit (Daily Prayer)
Deign, O God, to rescue me; O Lord, make haste to help me. Let them be put to shame and confounded who seek my life.
Ps 69:4
Let them be turned back in disgrace, who desire my ruin.
Glory Be to the Father…
Thou hast fed thy servants, O Lord, with the holy gifts; comfort us ever we pray, by her intercession whose festival we celebrate.
Through our Lord…
Weekly Prayer
Prayer to St. Joseph
before the throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires.
Oh, St. Joseph, do assist me by your powerful intercession,
and obtain for me from your Divine Son
all spiritual blessings, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
So that, having engaged here below your heavenly power,
I may offer my thanksgiving and homage to the most loving of fathers.
Oh, St. Joseph, I never weary contemplating you and Jesus asleep in your arms;
I dare not approach while he reposes near your heart.
Press him in my name and kiss his fine head for me and
ask him to return the kiss when I draw my dying breath.
St. Joseph, patron of departing souls - pray for me.
Amen.
Weekly Formation
The Cardinal Virtues
The Cardinal Virtues
Prudence
Prudence is right reason applied to action: it recognizes the true good in a concrete situation and chooses suitable means to attain it. It is not mere caution or cleverness, because its judgment must serve a morally good end.
Justice
Justice is the steady will to give God and each person what is due. It governs worship, rights, promises, property, work, authority, and social duties by measuring conduct according to objective obligation rather than convenience or favoritism.
Temperance
Temperance restrains and orders the desire for bodily pleasure so that appetite follows reason and faith. By preserving inner balance, it enables created pleasures to be received gratefully without becoming masters of judgment or conduct.
Fortitude
Fortitude gives firmness in difficulty and constancy in pursuing the good despite fear, suffering, or danger. It moderates both cowardice and reckless boldness, especially by enabling endurance when duty cannot be completed without sacrifice.
Saint & Feast
Assumption
Fourth day of the octave of the Assumption of Blessed Mary
Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as the assumption of Mary, body and soul, into heaven.
Learn more about AssumptionAgapitus
St. Agapitus, Martyr
16 year old Christian Saint martyred in 274
Today in Church History
Marriage of Henry III of Navarre and Margaret of Valois
1572EventThe marriage of Henry III of Navarre, a Huguenot, to Margaret of Valois in 1572 aimed to bridge the divide between Catholics and Protestants in France. This union, however, was overshadowed by the subsequent St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, which highlighted the deep-seated tensions within the country.
Unity in Christ is a continual pursuit, reminding us of the need for reconciliation among believers.