Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 1 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
The Day 3 within the Octave of Corpus Christi falls in the Time after Pentecost, a season focused on the life of the Church following the coming of the Holy Spirit. Corpus Christi celebrates the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; the octave means the feast’s celebration extends for eight days, so each day continues the Church’s prayerful attention to this mystery. The canonical rank “Semidouble” indicates a liturgical observance that is more solemn than an ordinary weekday but less so than a major solemnity: certain proper prayers and antiphons of the feast are kept, while some parts of the daily liturgy may follow the season.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Commandment 5
The Ten Commandments
Thou shalt not kill.
The Fifth Commandment protects human life because every person is made by God and belongs ultimately to Him. It forbids unjust killing and deliberate injury, and it also condemns hatred, revenge, and conduct that recklessly endangers oneself or another.
Saint & Feast
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Day 3 within the Octave of Corpus Christi
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Commemoration
Mary Magdalen de Pazzi
St. Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, Virgin
Italian Carmelite mystic and saint (1566-1607)
- Born
- 1566-04-02 · Florence
- Died
- 1607-05-25 · Florence
Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, OCarm, was an Italian Carmelite nun and mystic. She has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are bread and wine, which, through the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become his Body and Blood. As we gather in faith, we remember the Last Supper, Christ’s death and Resurrection, and the new Passover fulfilled in him. In the Offertory, the Church gives thanks to the Creator for the gifts of bread and wine, fruits of the earth, the vine, and human hands. The Eucharist is a pledge of Christ’s love, given so that he may never depart from his own and may make them sharers in his Passover. Though this mystery can be difficult and even a stumbling block, the Lord lovingly invites us to receive in faith the gift of his Eucharist—and so to receive the Lord himself.
In the Catechism, we learn that Jesus’ command to repeat his actions and words is not only a call to remember him, but a directive to celebrate liturgically the memorial of his life, death, Resurrection, and intercession before the Father. From the Church’s earliest days, Christians have gathered on Sunday, the day of Jesus’ Resurrection, to break bread. This celebration has continued throughout the Church’s history and remains the center of the Church’s life, proclaiming the Paschal mystery until he comes. The Eucharistic liturgy has a fundamental structure: the Liturgy of the Word and the Liturgy of the Eucharist, which together form one single act of worship. As the pilgrim People of God celebrates from gathering to gathering, we continue along the way of the cross toward the heavenly banquet in the kingdom.
The Catechism teaches that the Church celebrates the one Paschal mystery of Christ in every place, from the first community in Jerusalem until Christ’s return. Although this mystery is one, its liturgical celebration takes diverse forms. These traditions developed as the Church carried out her mission among different peoples and cultures, expressing the same faith through distinctive symbols, forms of communion, theological understanding, and ways of holiness. In the communion of the same faith and sacraments, the Churches can enrich one another and grow in fidelity to Tradition and the Church’s common mission. The Church recognizes the Latin, Byzantine, Alexandrian or Coptic, Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, and Chaldean rites, holding all lawfully recognized rites to be of equal right and dignity and seeking to preserve and foster them.