Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 13 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Formation
The Cardinal Virtues
The Cardinal Virtues
Prudence
Prudence is right reason applied to action: it recognizes the true good in a concrete situation and chooses suitable means to attain it. It is not mere caution or cleverness, because its judgment must serve a morally good end.
Justice
Justice is the steady will to give God and each person what is due. It governs worship, rights, promises, property, work, authority, and social duties by measuring conduct according to objective obligation rather than convenience or favoritism.
Temperance
Temperance restrains and orders the desire for bodily pleasure so that appetite follows reason and faith. By preserving inner balance, it enables created pleasures to be received gratefully without becoming masters of judgment or conduct.
Fortitude
Fortitude gives firmness in difficulty and constancy in pursuing the good despite fear, suffering, or danger. It moderates both cowardice and reckless boldness, especially by enabling endurance when duty cannot be completed without sacrifice.
Saint & Feast
Assumption
Fourth day of the octave of the Assumption of Blessed Mary
Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as the assumption of Mary, body and soul, into heaven.
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St. Agapitus, Martyr
16 year old Christian Saint martyred in 274
Today in Church History
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