Understanding the Day
Season
Eastertide
Week
Week 2 of Eastertide
Rank
Weekday
Eastertide is the fifty-day season from Easter Sunday to Pentecost, a time the Church dwells on the joy of the Lord’s Resurrection and the growth of the new life it brings. The rank “Feria” means this day is an ordinary weekday rather than a feast or solemnity; there is no special obligatory celebration beyond the season’s Easter prayers, though the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours will use the appropriate weekday texts for the second week of Easter. There is no separate octave or vigil attached to this specific day beyond the ongoing Easter octave already concluded this first week.
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 7
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.
Peacemakers establish the tranquility of right order by reconciling persons to God, to truth, and to one another. Christian peace is therefore more than avoiding conflict; it rests on justice and charity and does not purchase quiet by cooperation with evil.
Featured Saint
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Tuesday of Week 2 of Eastertide
Saint Nimatullah Kassab Al-Hardini
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Church is apostolic: remaining in communion of faith and life with the apostles through their successors, she is sent into the whole world to spread Christ’s Kingdom. Every member shares in this mission in different ways. Its fruitfulness depends on a vital union with Christ, and charity drawn especially from the Eucharist is the soul of the whole apostolate. As we reflect together, we can rejoice in the Church’s deepest identity as one, holy, catholic, and apostolic: one Body, given life by one Spirit; holy through God, Christ, and the Spirit even while including sinners; catholic in proclaiming the fullness of faith and being sent to all peoples; and apostolic, founded on the apostles and governed by Christ through Peter and the other apostles in their successors.
The Catechism teaches that through Baptism, Christians become the People of God and share, each in their own way, in Christ’s priestly, prophetic, and royal office. All the faithful have equal dignity and cooperate in building up the Body of Christ, according to each person’s condition and function. The Church’s diversity of ministries serves her unity and mission: ordained ministers teach, sanctify, and govern in Christ’s name, while the laity have their own assignment in the Church and in the world. Christ is the source of ministry in the Church, and sacramental ministry is a service, modeled on Christ who took the form of a servant. As we reflect together, we can give thanks for the different ways God calls the faithful to serve the one mission of the Church.
¶ 864
"Christ, sent by the Father, is the source of the Church's whole apostolate"; thus the fruitfulness of apostolate for ordained ministers as well as for lay people clearly depends on their vital union with Christ. In keeping with their vocations, the demands of the times and the various gifts of the Holy Spirit, the apostolate assumes the most varied forms. But charity, drawn from the Eucharist above all, is always "as it were, the soul of the whole apostolate."