Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 3 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Sunday

This day is the Third Sunday after Pentecost, observed in the season following Pentecost when the Church reflects on the life and mission of the risen Christ and the growth of the Christian community. The rank “Semidouble” indicates a liturgical importance higher than ordinary weekdays but below the major feasts: prayers and readings proper to the Sunday are used, while some liturgical elements remain simpler than for a major solemnity. This particular Sunday falls within the Octave of the Sacred Heart, which means it is celebrated during the eight-day period honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus; the octave gives added devotional focus to the love and mercy of Christ during these days.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Commandment 7

The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt not steal.
The Seventh Commandment protects another person’s rightful goods and the justice owed in work, trade, promises, and contracts. It forbids taking, keeping, damaging, or using what belongs to another without right and requires restitution when an injustice can be repaired.

Saint & Feast

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Third Sunday after Pentecost within the Octave of the Sacred Heart

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Commemoration

Norbert

St. Norbert, Bishop and Confessor

Roman Catholic archbishop and saint

Born: 1080-00-00 · Gennep
Died: 1134-06-06 · Magdeburg

Norbert of Xanten, O. Praem, also known as Norbert Gennep, was a German Catholic bishop who was the Archbishop of Magdeburg, founder of the Premonstratensian order of canons regular, and is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Norbert was canonized by Pope Gregory XIII in the year 1582, and his statue appears above the Piazza colonnade of St. Peter's Square in Rome.

Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Receiving Holy Communion deepens our union with Christ, who invites us to abide in him and live because of him. This sacred nourishment strengthens, preserves, and renews the life of grace received at Baptism, sustaining us on our Christian pilgrimage. The Eucharist also separates us from sin: Christ’s gift of himself cleanses us from past sins, strengthens our charity, and helps us resist breaking away from him through mortal sin. As we receive Communion, we are encouraged to grow in Christ’s friendship and root our lives more deeply in him.

The Eucharist makes the Church, uniting those who receive it more closely to Christ and to all the faithful in one body. As we reflect together, we remember that Communion renews, strengthens, and deepens the incorporation into the Church begun in Baptism. Receiving Christ’s Body and Blood also commits us to recognize Christ in the poorest of his brethren. The divisions that prevent Christians from sharing fully at the Lord’s table are painful, and they call us to pray earnestly for complete unity among all believers. The Church recognizes that Eastern Churches not in full communion possess true sacraments, especially the priesthood and Eucharist, while communities arising from the Reformation have not preserved the Eucharistic mystery in its fullness. In grave necessity, and under the conditions set by the Church, Catholic ministers may administer certain sacraments to other Christians who seek them freely and share the Catholic faith regarding them.

The liturgy proclaims, celebrates, and lives the mystery of Christ within many cultures, not abolishing them but redeeming and fulfilling them in Christ. It includes an unchanging part instituted by God and entrusted to the Church, as well as elements the Church may adapt to cultures when appropriate. Different recognized rites express and communicate the same mystery of Christ and show the catholicity of the Church. For family reflection, cultural expressions in worship are a gift when they remain faithful to the common faith, the sacramental signs received from Christ, and communion with the Church. The liturgy both finds expression in culture and helps shape it, while calling for conversion wherever customs are incompatible with the Catholic faith.

Today's Mass Readings

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Third Sunday after Pentecost within the Octave of the Sacred Heart

Understanding the Day

Daily Prayer

Weekly Prayer

Weekly Formation

Commandment 7

The Ten Commandments

Saint & Feast

Third Sunday after Pentecost within the Octave of the Sacred Heart

Norbert

Today in Church History

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Today's Mass Readings

Day 3 within the Octave of the Sacred Heart

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