Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

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Time After Pentecost

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Week 5 of Time After Pentecost

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Sunday

The Fifth Sunday after Pentecost falls in the Time after Pentecost, the long stretch of Ordinary Time that follows the great feasts of Easter and Pentecost.

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Why it matters: Sundays after Pentecost help families connect the resurrection and the sending of the Spirit with practical Christian living. Observing this Sunday gives a weekly rhythm for prayer, Scripture, and acts of charity that shape children and adults toward following Christ in everyday life.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Commandment 9

The Ten Commandments

Thou shalt not covet another person’s spouse.
The Ninth Commandment guards purity and marital fidelity within the heart, where deliberate desires begin. It distinguishes an unwanted temptation from a chosen desire and forbids willingly entertaining thoughts that would violate another person or another marriage.

Saint & Feast

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Fifth Sunday after Pentecost

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Commemoration

Silverius

St. Silverius, Pope and Martyr

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Born: 0477-00-00 · Frosinone
Died: 0537-06-20 · Ponza

Pope Silverius was bishop of Rome from 8 June 536 to his deposition in 537, a few months before his death. His rapid rise to prominence from a deacon to the papacy coincided with the efforts of Ostrogothic king Theodahad, who intended to install a pro-Gothic candidate just before the Gothic War. Later deposed by Byzantine general Belisarius, he was tried and sent to exile on the desolated island of Palmarola, where he starved to death in 537.

Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

In the journey of faith, Baptism, the Eucharist, and Confirmation together form the sacraments of Christian initiation. Confirmation completes baptismal grace, binds the baptized more perfectly to the Church, and enriches them with a special strength of the Holy Spirit. The Spirit rested upon Jesus for his saving mission, and Christ promised to pour out the Spirit upon his people—a promise fulfilled on Easter Sunday and more strikingly at Pentecost. Through Confirmation, received through the laying on of hands and anointing with chrism, the baptized are strengthened to be true witnesses of Christ, spreading and defending the faith by word and deed.

In the early Church, Confirmation was generally celebrated with Baptism as a “double sacrament,” highlighting the unity of Christian initiation. Eastern Churches continue to keep these sacraments united, while the Latin Church more clearly expresses the new Christian’s communion with the bishop, who serves the unity, catholicity, and apostolicity of the Church. In Confirmation, anointing with sacred chrism is a sign of consecration: the baptized share more completely in Christ’s mission and in the fullness of the Holy Spirit, so that their lives may give off “the aroma of Christ.” This anointing also gives the confirmand the seal of the Holy Spirit, marking total belonging to Christ and enrollment in his service forever. As families reflect on Confirmation, they can rejoice in this gift of belonging to Christ and his Church.

¶ 1289

Very early, the better to signify the gift of the Holy Spirit, an anointing with perfumed oil (chrism) was added to the laying on of hands. This anointing highlights the name "Christian," which means "anointed" and derives from that of Christ himself whom God "anointed with the Holy Spirit." This rite of anointing has continued ever since, in both East and West. For this reason the Eastern Churches call this sacrament Chrismation, anointing with chrism, or myron which means "chrism." In the West, Confirmation suggests both the ratification of Baptism, thus completing Christian initiation, and the strengthening of baptismal grace - both fruits of the Holy Spirit.

Today's Mass Readings

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