Understanding the Day
Season
Time After Pentecost
Week
Week 1 of Time After Pentecost
Rank
Sunday or semidouble observance
This is Day 2 within the Octave of Corpus Christi, observed in the Time After Pentecost. An octave is an eight-day extension of a principal feast that allows more sustained prayer, so this day continues the celebration begun on Corpus Christi itself. The rank “Semidouble” indicates an older liturgical classification meaning the day has its own prayers and readings but allows certain antiphons or parts of the feast to be used; in plain terms, it is a meaningful celebration without displacing all ordinary weekday observances.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
Commandment 8
The Ten Commandments
Thou shalt not bear false witness.
The Eighth Commandment requires truthfulness and respect for another person’s good name. It forbids lies, false testimony, rash judgment, slander, detraction, and the needless disclosure of faults, because justice and charity both govern speech.
Saint & Feast
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Day 2 within the Octave of Corpus Christi
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Customs & Fasting
No traditional fast · Complete abstinence
Traditional Friday complete abstinence.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
As we reflect together, the many names for the Eucharist reveal the inexhaustible richness of this sacrament. It is Eucharist, an action of thanksgiving to God for his works of creation, redemption, and sanctification. As the Lord’s Supper, it recalls the supper Jesus shared with his disciples before his Passion and anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem. In the Breaking of Bread, those who receive the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and become one body in him. The Eucharist is also the memorial of the Lord’s Passion and Resurrection and the Holy Sacrifice, making present Christ’s one sacrifice and including the Church’s offering. At Holy Mass, the faithful are sent forth to fulfill God’s will in their daily lives.
At the heart of the Eucharistic celebration are bread and wine, which, through the words of Christ and the invocation of the Holy Spirit, become his Body and Blood. As we gather in faith, we remember the Last Supper, Christ’s death and Resurrection, and the new Passover fulfilled in him. In the Offertory, the Church gives thanks to the Creator for the gifts of bread and wine, fruits of the earth, the vine, and human hands. The Eucharist is a pledge of Christ’s love, given so that he may never depart from his own and may make them sharers in his Passover. Though this mystery can be difficult and even a stumbling block, the Lord lovingly invites us to receive in faith the gift of his Eucharist—and so to receive the Lord himself.
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The Lord's Supper, because of its connection with the supper which the Lord took with his disciples on the eve of his Passion and because it anticipates the wedding feast of the Lamb in the heavenly Jerusalem. The Breaking of Bread, because Jesus used this rite, part of a Jewish meat when as master of the table he blessed and distributed the bread, above all at the Last Supper. It is by this action that his disciples will recognize him after his Resurrection, and it is this expression that the first Christians will use to designate their Eucharistic assemblies; by doing so they signified that all who eat the one broken bread, Christ, enter into communion with him and form but one body in him. The Eucharistic assembly (synaxis), because the Eucharist is celebrated amid the assembly of the faithful, the visible expression of the Church.