Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 19 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Feast

The Season: This celebration falls in the Ordinary Time after Pentecost (Time after Pentecost), a season focused on the growth of the Church and the daily call to live the Gospel. It’s a time for steady spiritual growth rather than the special preparation of Advent or Lent.

The Rank: “Double” is an older liturgical rank that marks this day as a full feast of importance. In plain terms, it means the Church gives this celebration greater attention in the prayers and readings of the day than an ordinary weekday: special Mass propers and the Office are observed, helping families enter more deeply into the commemoration.

Octave or Vigil: No octave or vigil is indicated for this celebration in the supplied context, so the feast is observed on the day itself without an extended eight‑day observance or a distinct vigil liturgy.

Why it matters: Celebrating a saint who is a priest, confessor, and Doctor of the Church offers families a model of faithful service, learned teaching, and devotion to Scripture and the Church’s life.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Pride and Humility

The Way of Darkness

Pride
Pride is an inordinate esteem of oneself or one’s own excellence that resists dependence on God and right order toward others. It may appear as vanity and superiority, but also as a self-absorbed preoccupation with one’s misery that refuses humble trust in God.

The Way of Light

Humility
Humility is the truthful recognition that every good comes from God and that personal gifts, limits, and duties must be seen as they really are. It avoids both self-exaltation and false self-contempt, placing confidence in God rather than in an invented image of oneself.

Saint & Feast

Principal celebration

Jerome

St. Jerome, Priest, Confessor and Doctor of the Church

Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church

Born: 0345-00-00 · Stridon
Died: 0420-09-30 · Bethlehem

Jerome, also known as Jerome of Stridon, was an early Christian priest, confessor, theologian, translator, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome.

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Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The third commandment recalls the holiness of the sabbath, a day set apart for the Lord, for rest, and for praise of God’s creation and saving work. It invites us to pause from everyday work so that people, especially the poor, may be refreshed. Jesus teaches that the sabbath is made for man and is a day for mercy, doing good, and honoring God. Through Christ’s Resurrection on the first day of the week, Sunday became the Lord’s Day for Christians, recalling both creation and the new creation. For Catholic families, Sunday worship is a regular, visible way to honor God as Creator and Redeemer and to celebrate his gifts of creation and salvation.

¶ 2168

The third commandment of the Decalogue recalls the holiness of the sabbath: "The seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD."

¶ 2169

In speaking of the sabbath Scripture recalls creation: "For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it."

¶ 2170

Today's Mass Readings

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