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Lent is a forty-day season of preparation for Easter marked by prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. A “Greater Non-Privileged Feria” is a weekday of ordinary time in the liturgical week that has a higher rank than a simple feria but is not a feast or solemnity; in plain terms, it means the day has its own proper weekday prayers and readings for Lent, but it does not displace more important celebrations such as feasts or saints’ days of higher rank. There is no octave or vigil attached to this day by the information given; it belongs to the continuous observance of the Lenten season.
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Beatitude 2
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the meek; for they shall possess the land.
Meekness is strength governed by reason and charity rather than by resentment or the desire to retaliate. The meek endure wrong without returning evil for evil and remain peaceful and teachable under God’s providence.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In the life of Christ, the mysteries of the Incarnation and the Paschal mystery shed light on all of his earthly life, revealing the Father’s love and the work of redemption. Although the Gospels do not record every detail of Jesus’ hidden and public life, they were written so that we may believe that he is the Christ, the Son of God, and have life in his name. Everything in his life—from his birth to his Passion and Resurrection—reveals his divine sonship and saving mission. For Catholic families, Jesus is our perfect model: his humility invites us to follow him, his prayer draws us to pray, and his poverty calls us to accept freely the hardships that may come our way. United with him, we are enabled to share in what he lived for us.
God prepared the coming of his Son over centuries, making the rituals, sacrifices, figures, and symbols of the First Covenant converge on Christ. Through the prophets he announced the Messiah, and he also awakened a dim expectation of his coming among the pagans. St. John the Baptist was Christ’s immediate forerunner, preparing his way through preaching, a Baptism of conversion, and his witness even unto martyrdom. In Advent, the Church shares in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming and renews her ardent desire for his return. As we celebrate Christmas, we remember that Jesus was born in a humble stable to a poor family, with simple shepherds as the first witnesses. We are called to humble ourselves, become little before God, and be born of God, so that Christ may be formed in us and the mystery of Christmas may be fulfilled in us.
¶ 516
Christ's whole earthly life - his words and deeds, his silences and sufferings, indeed his manner of being and speaking - is Revelation of the Father. Jesus can say: "Whoever has seen me has seen the Father", and the Father can say: "This is my Son, my Chosen; listen to him!" Because our Lord became man in order to do his Father's will, even the least characteristics of his mysteries manifest "God's love. . . among us".