Understanding the Day
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Eastertide
Week
Week 6 of Eastertide
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Weekday
Eastertide is the fifty-day season from Easter Sunday to Pentecost that celebrates Christ’s resurrection and the life it brings to the Church. A “Feria” is a weekday in the liturgical calendar that has no proper feast; its rank is simple and pastoral, meaning the ordinary weekday observance of the season is kept rather than a solemnity or feast. Tuesday of Week 6 falls within Eastertide’s continuous celebration: it has no separate octave or vigil attached in this context, so the day continues the seasonal cycle of Easter prayer. This matters for families because it invites regular, uncomplicated participation in the paschal mystery—short readings, prayer, and remembering that resurrection joy shapes everyday life.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Commandment 5
The Ten Commandments
Thou shalt not kill.
The Fifth Commandment protects human life because every person is made by God and belongs ultimately to Him. It forbids unjust killing and deliberate injury, and it also condemns hatred, revenge, and conduct that recklessly endangers oneself or another.
Featured Saint
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Tuesday of Week 6 of Eastertide
Saint César de Bus
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Baptism is a profound sacrament of faith that marks the person baptized as belonging to Christ and signifies liberation from sin. As families attentively follow its gestures and words, they are invited to see the riches that Baptism signifies and brings about: the sign of the cross marks the candidate with Christ’s redemption, and the proclamation of God’s Word calls forth the response of faith. Baptism itself signifies and brings about death to sin and entry into the life of the Most Holy Trinity through union with Christ’s Paschal mystery. The anointing with sacred chrism signifies the gift of the Holy Spirit, while the white garment and candle show that the newly baptized has put on Christ, risen with him, and been enlightened by him. As a child of God, the baptized person is oriented toward the Eucharist and can pray, “Our Father.”
¶ 1235
The sign of the cross, on the threshold of the celebration, marks with the imprint of Christ the one who is going to belong to him and signifies the grace of the redemption Christ won for us by his cross.
¶ 1236
The proclamation of the Word of God enlightens the candidates and the assembly with the revealed truth and elicits the response of faith, which is inseparable from Baptism. Indeed Baptism is "the sacrament of faith" in a particular way, since it is the sacramental entry into the life of faith.