Understanding the Day
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Week 2 of Lent
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Lent is a forty-day season of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving that prepares Christians for the celebration of Easter. It begins on Ash Wednesday and moves the family’s attention toward repentance, spiritual growth, and closer fellowship with God. A “Greater Non-Privileged Feria” is a weekday of ordinary time within a solemn season: it is more important than a simple weekday but does not replace major feasts. In plain terms, this means the day keeps the Lenten character—penitential prayers, Scripture and devotional readings appropriate to the season—without the added texts or rites of a feast or solemnity. There is no octave or vigil associated specifically with this day; it falls within the second week of Lent and follows the liturgical pattern for weekdays in Lent.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 4
The Beatitudes
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst for justice; for they shall be satisfied.
To hunger and thirst for justice is to desire holiness and every virtue with the urgency of bodily hunger and thirst. The promise of being filled means that God satisfies this sincere desire through grace now and perfect righteousness in heaven.
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Tuesday of Week 2 of Lent
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Customs & Fasting
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
In the Catechism, the Church is beautifully depicted through many biblical images that speak of her inexhaustible mystery. These images gather around Christ, who is the head of the People of God and whose Body the Church is. The Church is described as a sheepfold, with Christ as the one gateway and the Good Shepherd who nourishes and leads his flock. She is also like God’s cultivated field and vineyard: Christ, the true vine, gives life and fruitfulness to those who remain in him through the Church. The Church is further called God’s building, founded on Christ the cornerstone, where God’s family dwells and believers are built together as living stones. Finally, she is described as the holy city and the spotless spouse whom Christ loves, sanctifies, nourishes, and cherishes.
The Church’s origin is rooted in the Holy Trinity’s plan and unfolds gradually through history as the “family of God,” called to share in divine life. God created the world for communion with him, brought about through the gathering of people in Christ, which is the Church. After sin disrupted communion with God and one another, God began gathering his People, preparing this gathering through Abraham and Israel and bringing it to fulfillment in the New Covenant instituted by Christ. Jesus inaugurated the Church by proclaiming the Kingdom of God, gathering a little flock around himself, and preparing and building his Church through the Twelve and the other disciples. The Church is born above all from Christ’s total self-giving for salvation, anticipated in the Eucharist and fulfilled on the cross, where the blood and water flowing from his side symbolize her origin and growth. As we reflect together, we can give thanks for God’s loving plan to gather his people into communion with him in Christ.