Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 16 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Second-class feast
Introit (Daily Prayer)
There were standing by the Cross of Jesus His Mother, and His Mother’s sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Salome, and Mary Magdalene.
Jn. 19:26-27
Woman, behold your son, said Jesus; and to the disciple, Behold your mother.
Glory Be to the Father…
May the sacrament we have received purify us, O Lord, and may the intercession of blessed Nicomedes, Your Martyr, cause us to be absolved from all sin.
Through our Lord…
Weekly Prayer
Prayer for the Home
and drive far from it all snares of the enemy.
Let Thy holy angels dwell herein to preserve us in peace;
and may Thy blessing be always upon us.
Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Weekly Formation
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit
The Fruits of the Holy Spirit
Charity
Charity as a fruit is the mature delight of loving God and neighbor under the action of the Holy Ghost. It is called a fruit because supernatural love has become not only right but spiritually fruitful and pleasing in its exercise.
Joy
Joy is the spiritual gladness that follows charity’s union with the beloved good, above all with God. It can remain beneath sorrow and suffering because its deepest cause is God’s possessed or hoped-for goodness rather than favorable circumstances.
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.
Patience
Patience bears present suffering without abandoning the good or surrendering to disordered sorrow. As a fruit of the Spirit it gives steadiness under trials whose end may not yet be visible.
Kindness
Kindness is a gracious readiness to treat others with warmth and to make charity evident in manner and action. It removes needless harshness and makes the good attractive without compromising truth.
Goodness
Goodness is the active inclination to do what is morally good and beneficial to others. As a fruit of the Spirit it reflects an interior uprightness that readily expresses itself in worthy deeds.
Saint & Feast
Our Lady of Sorrows
Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Our Lady of Sorrows is a title of Mary focused on the sorrows she endured in relation to the life and death of Jesus.
Our Lady of Sorrows is a title of Mary focused on the sorrows she endured in relation to the life and death of Jesus. The devotion is commonly organized around seven sorrows, and its Roman Catholic feast is celebrated on September 15.
Learn more about Our Lady of SorrowsNicomedes
St. Nicomedes, Martyr
Roman martyr
Today in Church History
Miraculous Portrait of Saint Dominic in Soriano
1530ApparitionIn 1530, a miraculous portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Soriano, Calabria, which was later commemorated as a feast day by the Roman Catholic Church from 1644 to 1912. This event highlights the veneration of saints and the belief in divine interventions within the Church's history.
The appearance of miraculous images serves as a reminder of the saints' intercession and God's presence in our lives.