Understanding the Day
Season
Lent
Week
Week 4 of Lent
Rank
First-class feast
Sunday 4 in Quadragesima falls in the middle of Lent, the Church’s season of penance, prayer, and conversion preparing hearts for Easter. The rank “Greater Sunday of the I Class” means this Sunday is one of the most important liturgical days of the season: the Sunday Mass and its readings take precedence in the family’s weekly rhythm and public worship, and other optional memorials or lower-ranking commemorations are omitted. There is no octave or vigil tied specifically to this title; it is a regular Sunday in Lent with special solemnity.
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Weekly Formation
Beatitude 6
The Beatitudes
Blessed are the pure of heart; for they shall see God.
Purity of heart is singleness of purpose before God, together with purity in thought, desire, word, and deed. A heart cleansed from divided and sinful attachments is made capable of knowing God more clearly and seeing Him in glory.
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Sunday 4 of Lent
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Church’s missionary mandate is rooted in the eternal love of the Most Holy Trinity and continues Christ’s mission of bringing the Gospel to all nations. This mission is a journey of love, shaped by Christ’s way of poverty, obedience, service, and self-sacrifice. As the Church faces human weakness and divisions among Christians, she is called to penance, renewal, and efforts toward unity. She also enters into respectful dialogue with those who do not yet accept the Gospel, recognizing the elements of truth and grace present among peoples. With patience, the Church proclaims the Good News, helps form Christian communities, and seeks to share in the renewal of human society in Christ, so that all may be drawn into the family of God.
¶ 849
The missionary mandate. "Having been divinely sent to the nations that she might be 'the universal sacrament of salvation,' the Church, in obedience to the command of her founder and because it is demanded by her own essential universality, strives to preach the Gospel to all men": "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and Lo, I am with you always, until the close of the age."
¶ 850
The origin and purpose of mission. the Lord's missionary mandate is ultimately grounded in the eternal love of the Most Holy Trinity: "The Church on earth is by her nature missionary since, according to the plan of the Father, she has as her origin the mission of the Son and the Holy Spirit." The ultimate purpose of mission is none other than to make men share in the communion between the Father and the Son in their Spirit of love.