Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 3 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
The Day 5 within the Octave of the Sacred Heart falls in Ordinary Time after Pentecost, during the week following the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart. The canonical rank “Semidouble” indicates this day retains a heightened liturgical character: there are special prayers and readings associated with the octave, but some elements of the weekday office remain.
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
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Day 5 within the Octave of the Sacred Heart
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Today in Church History
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Eucharist is the heart and summit of the Church’s life, for in it Christ joins the Church to his sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving. Jesus, the “living bread” who came down from heaven, invites us to receive him, abiding in us as we abide in him. In the Mass, through the ministry of validly ordained priests, bread and wine are consecrated and become the true, real, and substantial Body and Blood of Christ. Receiving Holy Communion in a state of grace increases our union with the Lord, forgives venial sins, helps preserve us from grave sin, and strengthens the unity of the Church. As we take part in the Holy Sacrifice, we are sustained on our pilgrimage through this life, grow in longing for eternal life, and are united even now with the Church in heaven, Mary, and all the saints.
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.
¶ 1406
Jesus said: "I am the living bread that came down from heaven; if any one eats of this bread, he will live for ever; . . . he who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life and . . . abides in me, and I in him" ( Jn 6:51, 54, 56).