Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Epiphany
Week
Week 2 of Time After Epiphany
Rank
Major feast
The rank “Greater Double” means this is an important liturgical feast with its own proper prayers and readings; in practical family terms, it’s a day for special prayer and attention in the household liturgy rather than an ordinary weekday. No octave or vigil is specified here, so the celebration is observed on its appointed day without an extended eight-day period or a required preparatory vigil.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Partaking, Silence, and Defense
Ways of Being Accessory to Another’s Sin
By partaking
A person becomes accessory by partaking when he knowingly shares in the performance, benefit, or necessary support of another’s sinful act. The degree of guilt depends on intention, freedom, closeness to the act, and whether the assistance helped cause it.
By silence
A person becomes accessory by silence when a serious duty to speak, warn, correct, or protect is deliberately neglected. Silence is not automatically consent, but it becomes blameworthy when speaking was reasonably possible and necessary to prevent or oppose the wrong.
By defense of the sinful action
A person becomes accessory by defending a sinful action when he knowingly excuses, justifies, or protects the wrongdoing as though it were right. Defending the dignity or legal rights of a sinner is different from defending the sin itself.
The Spiritual Works of Mercy
Instruct the ignorant
Instructing the ignorant means teaching needed truth to someone who does not know it, especially truth concerning faith and moral duty. The work presumes patience and accuracy and differs from winning an argument or displaying knowledge.
Saint & Feast
Chair of Saint Peter
Chair of St. Peter at Rome
The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter commemorates Peter’s ministry and teaching authority rather than Bernini’s reliquary artwork.
The Feast of the Chair of Saint Peter commemorates Peter’s ministry and teaching authority rather than Bernini’s reliquary artwork. The older Roman calendar distinguished the Chair at Rome on January 18 and the Chair at Antioch on February 22 before the observance was consolidated.
Learn more about Chair of Saint PeterSt. Paul the Apostle
Today in Church History
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