Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 2 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
The Day 5 within the Octave of Corpus Christi falls in Ordinary Time after Pentecost (time_after_pentecost). This season unfolds the mystery of Christ’s presence and mission in the daily life of the Church. As a day “infra Octavam” it belongs to the eight-day celebration surrounding Corpus Christi, a time specially devoted to honoring the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist. The rank “Semidouble” is an older liturgical classification that indicates this day has a fuller celebration than an ordinary feria: certain psalms and antiphons, as well as proper prayers, take precedence, but it is not as solemn as the principal feast day itself.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Commandment 6
The Ten Commandments
Be faithful in marriage and respect God’s gift of the body.
The Sixth Commandment guards fidelity in marriage and the holiness of God’s gift of the body. It requires purity appropriate to each state of life, respect for personal boundaries, and faithful conduct in thought, word, and action.
Saint & Feast
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Day 5 within the Octave of Corpus Christi
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Commemoration
Petronilla
St. Petronilla, Virgin
Roman Catholic saint
- Born
- 0050-00-00 · Galilee
- Died
- 0100-00-00 · Rome
Petronilla is an early Christian saint. She is venerated as a virgin by the Catholic Church. She died in Rome at the end of the 1st century, or possibly in the 3rd century.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In the celebration of the Eucharist, Christians gather in one place, with Christ himself as the principal agent who presides invisibly. The bishop or priest presides in the person of Christ the head, while all take active parts in the celebration: readers proclaim, gifts are brought forward, Communion is given, and the people’s “Amen” expresses their participation. In the Liturgy of the Word, the Church hears the Old Testament, the apostles’ letters, and the Gospels, then is exhorted to receive God’s Word and put it into practice, praying also for all people. At the Offertory, bread and wine are brought to the altar, and Christians also bring gifts to share with those in need. In the Eucharistic Prayer, the Church asks the Father to send the Holy Spirit so that bread and wine become Christ’s body and blood. As the faithful receive the bread of heaven and cup of salvation, they share in the Eucharist celebrated in communion with the whole Church in heaven and on earth, the living and the dead.
The Eucharist is a profound celebration that connects Christians across time, rooted in Jesus’ command: “Do this in remembrance of me.” It is the memorial of Christ’s sacrifice, in which the Church offers the Father the gifts he has given—bread and wine—which, through the power of the Holy Spirit and the words of Christ, become the body and blood of Christ. Christ is truly and mysteriously present. As families, we can reflect with grateful hearts on the Eucharist as thanksgiving and praise to the Father for all he has accomplished through creation, redemption, and sanctification. United to Christ, the faithful join his praise and intercession as the Church offers thanksgiving to God for all that is good, beautiful, and just in creation and humanity.
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.