Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 16 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Feast
Introit (Daily Prayer)
The love of God is honorable wisdom; and they to whom she shall show herself, love her by the sight, and by the knowledge of her great works.
Ps 83:2
How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord.
Glory Be to the Father…
Who livest…
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
Joseph of Cupertino
St. Joseph of Cupertino Confessor
Italian conventual franciscan friar
- Born
- 1603-06-17 · Copertino
- Died
- 1663-09-18 · Osimo
Joseph of Cupertino (Copertino), OFM Conv. (Italian: Giuseppe da Copertino; 17 June 1603 – 18 September 1663) was an Italian Conventual Franciscan friar who is honored as a Christian mystic and saint. According to traditional Franciscan accounts, he was "remarkably unclever", but experienced miraculous levitation and ecstatic visions throughout his life which made him the object of scorn. He applied to the Conventual Franciscan friars, but was rejected due to his lack of education. He then pleaded with them to serve in their stables. After several years of working there, he had impressed the friars so much with the devotion and simplicity of his life that he was admitted to their Order, destined to become a Catholic priest, in 1625.
Learn more about Joseph of CupertinoCustoms & Fasting
Traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional September Ember Friday fast and complete abstinence.
Today in Church History
Battle of Castelfidardo and the Papal States
1860EventThe Battle of Castelfidardo in 1860 marked a significant defeat for the Papal States during the Italian Unification, leading to the loss of territories and diminishing the temporal power of the Pope. This event is pivotal in the context of the Italian Unification but is not directly related to the proclamation of Papal Infallibility or the establishment of Vatican City as a sovereign entity in 1929.
Even in times of political turmoil, the Church's spiritual mission endures.