Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 4 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Simple feast
Daily 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
Crescentia
Sts. Vitus, Modestus and Crescentia, Martyrs
3rd or 4th-century Sicilian saint
- Born
- 0290-01-01 · Mazara del Vallo
- Died
- 0303-01-01 · Basilicata
Vitus, whose name is sometimes rendered Guy or Guido, was a Christian martyr from Sicily. His surviving hagiography is pure legend. The dates of his actual life are unknown. He has long been tied to the Sicilian martyrs Modestus and Crescentia but in the earliest sources it is clear that these were originally different traditions that later became combined. The figures of Modestus and Crescentia are probably fictitious.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Children also need the new birth of Baptism because they are born with a fallen human nature and original sin. In Baptism, they are freed from the power of darkness and brought into the freedom of God’s children. The Church encourages parents to have their children baptized shortly after birth, recognizing both the priceless grace offered to the child and parents’ role as nurturers of the life God has entrusted to them. Infant Baptism is an immemorial tradition of the Church, with explicit testimony from the second century onward.