Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 17 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Weekday

The Time after Pentecost is the long season of the Church year that follows Pentecost and Ordinary Time in many calendars; it focuses on the daily life of discipleship, the teachings of Jesus, and growth in faith. A feria is a weekday without a specific saint’s feast assigned; it marks a simple, regular day in the liturgical cycle used for the ongoing rhythm of prayer and worship. “Friday of Week 17 of Time after Pentecost” is therefore one of those ordinary weekdays within the seventeenth week of this season. There is no octave or vigil attached to this celebration in the provided context, so the liturgy will follow the proper weekday texts for that feria and the week’s readings.

Introit (Daily Prayer)

Ps 104:3-4
Rejoice, O hearts that seek the Lord! Look to the Lord, and be strengthened; seek His face evermore.
Ps 104:1
Give thanks to the Lord, invoke His name; make known among the nations His deeds.
Glory Be to the Father…

Grant, we beseech You, almighty God, that we who devoutly keep the sacred observances year by year may be pleasing unto You both in body and soul.
Through our Lord…

Weekly Prayer

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me in my last agony.
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.

Weekly Formation

The Evangelical Counsels

Chastity
The evangelical counsel of chastity is the voluntary renunciation of marriage for the sake of Christ and undivided service to His kingdom. It goes beyond the chastity required of every Christian and, when vowed in religious life, offers the whole person to God.
Poverty
The evangelical counsel of poverty is the voluntary surrender or restricted use of personal possessions in order to follow Christ with greater freedom. It goes beyond ordinary justice and detachment by making material goods subject to a stable form of Gospel renunciation.
Obedience
The evangelical counsel of obedience is the voluntary offering of one’s will to God through lawful religious authority and an approved rule. St. Thomas calls it the chief religious vow because it offers not merely possessions or bodily goods, but the direction of one’s own will.

Featured Saint

Modern saint

Featured saintCalendar title

Friday of Week 17 of Time after Pentecost

Saint Paul VI

A biography or feast reflection has not yet been prepared.

Customs & Fasting

No traditional fast · Complete abstinence

Traditional Friday complete abstinence.

Today in Church History

Apostolicae Curae Issued by Pope Leo XIII
1896Papal
Pope Leo XIII issued the papal bull 'Apostolicae Curae', declaring Anglican orders 'absolutely null and utterly void'. This document addressed the validity of Anglican ordinations.
The Church's commitment to sacramental integrity underscores the importance of apostolic succession.

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Agnosticism can take different forms: it may include a search for God, but it can also express indifference toward the ultimate question of existence or become practical atheism. The first commandment calls us to believe in God, hope in him, and love him above all else. It also calls us to adore God, pray to him, offer him the worship due to him, and fulfill promises and vows made to him. This duty of authentic worship concerns us both personally and socially. Sacred images, rooted in the Incarnation of the Word of God, may be venerated with respect: the honor given to an image passes to the person portrayed. Yet adoration belongs to God alone. As we reflect together, we can ask for hearts that turn from indifference and superstition and grow in authentic worship of God.

¶ 2127

Agnosticism assumes a number of forms. In certain cases the agnostic refrains from denying God; instead he postulates the existence of a transcendent being which is incapable of revealing itself, and about which nothing can be said. In other cases, the agnostic makes no judgment about God's existence, declaring it impossible to prove, or even to affirm or deny.

¶ 2128

Agnosticism can sometimes include a certain search for God, but it can equally express indifferentism, a flight from the ultimate question of existence, and a sluggish moral conscience. Agnosticism is all too often equivalent to practical atheism.

Today's Mass Readings

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

Friday of Week 17 of Time after Pentecost

Understanding the Day

Introit (Daily Prayer)

Collect

Weekly Prayer

Jesus, Mary, and Joseph

Weekly Formation

The Evangelical Counsels

The Evangelical Counsels

Featured Saint

Friday of Week 17 of Time after Pentecost

Customs & Fasting

Today in Church History

Apostolicae Curae Issued by Pope Leo XIII

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Today's Mass Readings

Baltimore Catechism No. 3