Understanding the Day
Season
Lent
Week
Week 2 of Lent
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Weekday
Lent is a forty-day season of preparation before Easter focused on prayer, fasting, and acts of charity. A “Feria” is a weekday in the liturgical calendar; this particular day is the Friday of the second week of Lent. Its rank, “Greater Non-Privileged Feria,” means it is a regular Lenten weekday of some importance for the season’s character, but it does not have the added liturgical elements of a feast or a privileged feria that could suppress other observances. There is no octave or vigil attached to this day in the provided context.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 1
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the poor in spirit; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Poverty of spirit is freedom from placing the heart’s security in wealth, status, or self-sufficiency. It belongs to rich and poor alike when they depend humbly on God and remain willing to surrender created goods rather than offend Him.
Saint & Feast
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Friday of Week 2 of Lent
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Customs & Fasting
Traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional Lenten Friday fast and complete abstinence.
Today in Church History
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In these paragraphs, the Catechism proclaims Jesus Christ as the eternal Son of God made man, sent by the Father to redeem us and fulfill God’s promises. Jesus, who suffered and died for us and now lives with us forever after rising, draws us into communion with himself. Through him, we are led to the love of the Father in the Holy Spirit and share in the life of the Holy Trinity. For our daily faith and devotion, these truths invite us to grow in loving knowledge of Christ, to listen closely to his words and actions, and to share the Good News with others. As we deepen our understanding of the faith and the mysteries of Jesus’ life, may we joyfully say yes to him and remain in communion with him.
¶ 422
'But when the time had fully come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.' This is 'the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God': God has visited his people. He has fulfilled the promise he made to Abraham and his descendants. He acted far beyond all expectation - he has sent his own 'beloved Son'.
¶ 423
We believe and confess that Jesus of Nazareth, born a Jew of a daughter of Israel at Bethlehem at the time of King Herod the Great and the emperor Caesar Augustus, a carpenter by trade, who died crucified in Jerusalem under the procurator Pontius Pilate during the reign of the emperor Tiberius, is the eternal Son of God made man. He 'came from God', 'descended from heaven', and 'came in the flesh'. For 'the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; we have beheld his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father. . . and from his fullness have we all received, grace upon grace.'