Understanding the Day
Season
Eastertide
Week
Week 3 of Eastertide
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
This day falls in Eastertide, the Church’s fifty-day season celebrating Christ’s Resurrection and the new life it brings to the world. As a semidouble liturgical observance, its texts and prayers have a simple prominence: the celebration is more solemn than an ordinary feast but less elaborate than a full double or solemnity. This particular day is the third day within the Octave of Saint Joseph, meaning it belongs to the eight-day period of extended prayer following the principal observance of Saint Joseph.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 8
The Beatitudes
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice’s sake; for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Persecution for justice’s sake is suffering endured because one remains faithful to God, the faith, or virtue. The blessing belongs not to suffering caused by one’s own wrongdoing, but to steadfastness when fidelity brings loss, hostility, or punishment.
Saint & Feast
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Day 3 within the Octave of St. Joseph
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Customs & Fasting
No traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional Friday complete abstinence.
Today in Church History
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In the Catechism, we learn that Jesus’ Resurrection is unlike the return to ordinary earthly life experienced by those he raised before Easter. In his risen body, he passes from death to a new life beyond time and space. His body still bears the marks of his Passion, showing that it is truly the same body that was crucified, yet it also has the new properties of a glorious body and is filled with the power of the Holy Spirit. The Resurrection is a real event, witnessed through the empty tomb and the apostles’ encounters with the risen Christ, while still remaining a mystery that transcends history and human senses. Jesus revealed himself to his disciples in ways meant to awaken their faith. As a family, we can prayerfully contemplate Christ’s suffering, death, and risen glory, trusting in the Father’s power revealed in raising his Son.
In the Church, sacred ministers and lay faithful both serve the Church’s saving mission. Christ sends the apostles and their successors in his mission; the Pope, successor of St. Peter, serves as head of the college of bishops and Pastor of the universal Church, while bishops are visible sources and foundations of unity in their particular Churches. With priests and deacons, bishops teach the faith, celebrate divine worship—especially the Eucharist—and guide God’s people as pastors. Laypeople are called to bring the vigor of their Christian spirit into the world, living their Baptism and Confirmation in personal, family, social, and ecclesial life. They witness to Christ in every circumstance and, through self-denial and holiness, work to uproot the rule of sin in themselves and in the world. Some faithful also consecrate themselves to God through the evangelical counsels, serving God and the good of the whole Church.