Understanding the Day
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Lent
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Week 3 of Lent
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Lent is a forty-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that prepares Christians to celebrate Christ’s Paschal mystery at Easter. This Tuesday falls in the third week of Lent, a time when the Church’s Lenten practices continue to deepen repentance and spiritual renewal. The canonical rank “Greater Non-Privileged Feria” means this day is an ordinary weekday in the liturgical calendar that has greater importance than a simple feria (ordinary weekday) but does not outrank solemnities, feasts, or privileged ferias. In plain language: the usual weekday Mass and prayers of Lent are celebrated, with the season’s penitential tone and readings appropriate to the third week. There is no octave or vigil attached to this day in the provided context.
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 2
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the meek; for they shall possess the land.
Meekness is strength governed by reason and charity rather than by resentment or the desire to retaliate. The meek endure wrong without returning evil for evil and remain peaceful and teachable under God’s providence.
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Tuesday of Week 3 of Lent
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Catechism reveals the profound significance of the title "Lord," which designates both God the Father and Jesus Christ as divine. Rooted in the use of "Lord" for the divine name YHWH, this title expresses Jesus’ divine sovereignty, which he demonstrated through works of power over nature, illness, demons, death, and sin. Those who approached Jesus for help and healing addressed him as "Lord" with respect and trust; in the risen Christ, this confession becomes adoration, love, and affection: "My Lord and my God!" In Christian prayer, the title "Lord" is a familiar expression of trust and hope. Confessing Jesus as Lord recognizes his divinity and reminds each person not to submit personal freedom absolutely to any earthly power, but to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
In the life of Christ, the mysteries of the Incarnation and the Paschal mystery shed light on all of his earthly life, revealing the Father’s love and the work of redemption. Although the Gospels do not record every detail of Jesus’ hidden and public life, they were written so that we may believe that he is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in his name. Everything in his life—from his birth to his Passion and Resurrection—reveals his divine sonship and saving mission. For Catholic families, Jesus is our perfect model: his humility invites us to follow him, his prayer draws us to pray, and his poverty calls us to accept freely the hardships that may come our way. United with him, we are enabled to share in what he lived for us.
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The title "Son of God" signifies the unique and eternal relationship of Jesus Christ to God his Father: he is the only Son of the Father (cf Jn 1:14, 18; 3:16, 18); he is God himself (cf Jn 1:1). To be a Christian, one must believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God (cf Acts 8:37; 1 Jn 2:23).