Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 4 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Sunday

The Fourth Sunday after Pentecost falls in the Time after Pentecost, the long season following Pentecost when the Church reflects on ordinary Christian life, growth in holiness, and the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit in the Church. As a Sunday it is the principal day of Christian worship each week, shaped by readings and prayers that help families hear the Gospel and apply it at home. Its rank is Semidouble, an older liturgical classification indicating this celebration has proper prayers and readings but does not outrank greater feasts; in practical family terms, treat it as a normal Sunday with particular scriptural themes to guide prayer and discussion. There is no octave or special vigil attached here, so the Sunday liturgy stands on its own.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Commandment 8

The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt not bear false witness.
The Eighth Commandment requires truthfulness and respect for another person’s good name. It forbids lies, false testimony, rash judgment, slander, detraction, and the needless disclosure of faults, because justice and charity both govern speech.

Saint & Feast

Principal celebrationCalendar title

Fourth Sunday after Pentecost

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Commemoration

Anthony of Padua

St. Anthony of Padua, Confessor

Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and priest renowned for preaching and knowledge of Scripture.

Anthony of Padua was a Portuguese Franciscan friar and priest renowned for preaching and knowledge of Scripture. He died on June 13, 1231, was canonized in 1232, and was later declared a Doctor of the Church.

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Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Baptism is a profound sacrament of faith that marks the person baptized as belonging to Christ and signifies liberation from sin. As families attentively follow its gestures and words, they are invited to see the riches that Baptism signifies and brings about: the sign of the cross marks the candidate with Christ’s redemption, and the proclamation of God’s Word calls forth the response of faith. Baptism itself signifies and brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through union with Christ’s Paschal mystery. The anointing with sacred chrism signifies the gift of the Holy Spirit, while the white garment and candle show that the newly baptized has put on Christ, risen with him, and been enlightened by him. As a child of God, the baptized person is oriented toward the Eucharist and can pray, “Our Father.”

¶ 1234

The meaning and grace of the sacrament of Baptism are clearly seen in the rites of its celebration. By following the gestures and words of this celebration with attentive participation, the faithful are initiated into the riches this sacrament signifies and actually brings about in each newly baptized person.

¶ 1235

The sign of the cross, on the threshold of the celebration, marks with the imprint of Christ the one who is going to belong to him and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ won for us by his cross.

Today's Mass Readings

Open the day's Sancta MissaDivinum Officium · Divino Afflatu - 1954View readings