Understanding the Day
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Lent
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Week 4 of Lent
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Lent is a forty-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving preparing Catholics for Easter. A “Greater Non-Privileged Feria” is a weekday in the liturgical year that has a higher rank than simple weekdays but does not replace Sundays or major feast days; in practice it means the Mass and prayers of the day are observed according to the Lent season rather than a particular saint’s feast. There is no octave or vigil attached to this day in the given context. Saturday of the fourth week of Lent continues the Lenten rhythm: readings, penitential character, and emphasis on conversion and hope as Easter draws nearer.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 3
The Beatitudes
Blessed are they that mourn; for they shall be comforted.
The blessed mourners grieve chiefly for sin—their own and the sins of the world—and bear unavoidable trials in union with God. Their promised comfort is not mere earthly relief but the consolation of grace and, finally, eternal joy.
Saint & Feast
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Saturday of Week 4 of Lent
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Customs & Fasting
Traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional Lenten Saturday fast and complete abstinence.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In the face of final trials leading up to Christ's second coming, the Church will endure persecution that tests the faith of many. The deception of the Antichrist, which promotes a false sense of salvation through self-glorification, poses a significant threat to authentic belief. However, the fulfillment of God's kingdom will come not through worldly triumphs but through Christ's victory over evil, culminating in the Last Judgment where each person's heart and actions will be revealed. For Catholic families, this serves as a reminder to live in grace and love, embracing each other with compassion, as our treatment of one another reflects our acceptance of Christ’s teachings and prepares us for the eternal life He offers.
The Church has no light of her own; like the moon reflecting the sun, she reflects the light of Christ. She is holy through the gift of the Holy Spirit, who is the source and giver of holiness and flourishes in the Church. As God calls his people together from every part of the earth, the Church is present in local communities and becomes especially real when believers gather for the liturgy, above all the Eucharist. In our family prayer and worship, we can remember that the Church draws her life from the Word and the Body of Christ, and so becomes Christ’s Body.
¶ 677
The Church will enter the glory of the kingdom only through this final Passover, when she will follow her Lord in his death and Resurrection. The kingdom will be fulfilled, then, not by a historic triumph of the Church through a progressive ascendancy, but only by God's victory over the final unleashing of evil, which will cause his Bride to come down from heaven. God's triumph over the revolt of evil will take the form of the Last Judgement after the final cosmic upheaval of this passing world.