Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 19 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Simple feast

St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor, is celebrated in Ordinary Time (the season after Pentecost in this calendar). Ordinary Time focuses on the life and teachings of Jesus and the growth of the Church; this feast falls in the later part of that season. The celebration is ranked as a Simple feast. In plain language, a Simple is a liturgical observance that is more than an optional remembrance but does not carry the fuller liturgical obligations of higher ranks like solemnities or feasts; it is typically kept with prayer, readings, and the Mass or Divine Office for the day without extended rites such as an octave. No octave or vigil is attached here, so there are no added liturgical days before or after.

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

Saint Remigius

St. Remigius, Bishop and Confessor

French archbishop and saint

Born: 0437-00-00
Died: 0533-01-13

Remigius was the Bishop of Reims and "Apostle of the Franks". On 25 December 496, he baptised Clovis I, King of the Franks. The baptism, leading to about 3000 additional converts, was an important event in the Christianization of the Franks. Because of Clovis's efforts, a large number of churches were established in the formerly pagan lands of the Frankish empire, establishing a Nicene Christianity for the first time in Germanic lands, most of whom had been converted to Arian Christianity.

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Customs & Fasting

No traditional fast · Complete abstinence

Traditional Friday complete abstinence.

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.

The celebration of the Lord’s Day and the Eucharist is at the heart of the Church’s life, with Sunday observed as the foremost holy day of obligation. From the earliest apostolic age, Christians have gathered together to encourage one another in faith. The parish gathers the faithful for the Sunday Eucharist, teaches Christ’s saving doctrine, and practices the Lord’s charity through good works and brotherly love. The faithful are bound to participate in Mass on Sundays and other holy days of obligation, unless they are excused for a serious reason or dispensed by their pastor. In the Sunday Eucharist, we witness to our belonging to Christ and his Church, grow in faith and charity, and strengthen one another.

¶ 2175

Sunday is expressly distinguished from the sabbath which it follows chronologically every week; for Christians its ceremonial observance replaces that of the sabbath. In Christ's Passover, Sunday fulfills the spiritual truth of the Jewish sabbath and announces man's eternal rest in God. For worship under the Law prepared for the mystery of Christ, and what was done there prefigured some aspects of Christ:

Today's Mass Readings

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