Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 17 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Feast

The Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis is observed in the season after Pentecost, the long period of the Church year when we reflect on the life of the Church, the work of the apostles, and growth in Christian discipleship. In plain terms, the rank “Double” indicates this is a significant liturgical celebration: families and parishes give it proper attention in the Liturgy of the Hours and Mass, without the additional obligations attached to higher ranks like a solemnity. There is no octave or vigil specified here, so this day is celebrated on its appointed date without an extended eight‑day observance or a special vigil the evening before.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit

Charity
Charity as a fruit is the mature delight of loving God and neighbor under the action of the Holy Ghost. It is called a fruit because supernatural love has become not only right but spiritually fruitful and pleasing in its exercise.
Joy
Joy is the spiritual gladness that follows charity’s union with the beloved good, above all with God. It can remain beneath sorrow and suffering because its deepest cause is God’s possessed or hoped-for goodness rather than favorable circumstances.
Peace
Peace is the tranquility produced when desires are rightly ordered within the soul and charity unites persons in the good. It is more than quiet or lack of conflict, since true peace depends on union with God, justice, and ordered love.
Patience
Patience bears present suffering without abandoning the good or surrendering to disordered sorrow. As a fruit of the Spirit it gives steadiness under trials whose end may not yet be visible.
Kindness
Kindness is a gracious readiness to treat others with warmth and to make charity evident in manner and action. It removes needless harshness and makes the good attractive without compromising truth.
Goodness
Goodness is the active inclination to do what is morally good and beneficial to others. As a fruit of the Spirit it reflects an interior uprightness that readily expresses itself in worthy deeds.

Saint & Feast

Principal celebration

Francis of Assisi

Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis

Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)

Born: 1182-06-24 · Assisi
Died: 1226-10-03 · Portiuncula

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and an itinerant preacher.

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Customs & Fasting

Traditional fast · Complete abstinence

Traditional September Ember Friday fast and complete abstinence.

Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Ten Commandments offer a clear expression of what is required in love of God and love of neighbor. The first three commandments concern love of God, while the other seven concern love of neighbor. In fidelity to Scripture and the example of Jesus, they have held a predominant place in the Church’s catechesis since St. Augustine, and catechisms have often used their order to explain Christian morality. They are not simply separate rules: the Decalogue forms a coherent whole, with each commandment referring to the others and to all of them. As part of God’s revelation, the commandments express our fundamental duties toward God and neighbor and teach us about true humanity.

The Ten Commandments express God’s covenant with his people and remain permanently valid, as Jesus attested by his life and preaching. Jesus teaches that those who abide in him bear fruit, and he tells those who would enter life to keep the commandments. The commandments form an organic unity, express the natural law in a privileged way, and state grave obligations, even though obedience also includes matters that may be light in themselves. As we read them together, we can remember with hope that what God commands, he makes possible by his grace.

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The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the

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Today's Mass Readings

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Understanding the Day

Daily Prayer

Weekly Prayer

Weekly Formation

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit

The Fruits of the Holy Spirit

Saint & Feast

Francis of Assisi

Customs & Fasting

Today in Church History

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Today's Mass Readings

September Ember Friday

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