The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost falls in the Time after Pentecost, the long season of the Church Year that follows Pentecost and leads toward Advent. This season focuses on the Christian life shaped by the gifts of the Spirit and the Lord’s ongoing work in the Church. As a Sunday, this day is a principal weekly celebration of the Lord’s Resurrection and is meant for assembly worship and family prayer.
The rank “Semidouble” is an older liturgical designation. In plain language it means this feast is important and observed with proper prayers and readings but does not override higher-ranking feasts or solemnities. There is no octave or vigil attached specifically to this celebration in the provided context, so the usual Sunday rites apply: Mass, the Ordinary of the day, and the appointed Scripture for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost.
Daily Prayer
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Weekly Prayer
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Weekly Formation
The Corporal Works of Mercy
The Corporal Works of Mercy
Feed the hungry
Feeding the hungry supplies necessary nourishment to those who lack it. It is a corporal work because it serves a bodily need, and an act of mercy because charity responds to another’s misery rather than ignoring preventable want.
Give drink to the thirsty
Giving drink to the thirsty provides the water or other wholesome refreshment needed for life and health. The work includes direct aid and reasonable support for efforts that make safe water available to people in need.
Clothe the naked
Clothing the naked provides suitable clothing and protection to those who lack them. It safeguards bodily health and personal dignity while recognizing that unused or excess goods can answer another person’s genuine necessity.
Visit the imprisoned
Visiting the imprisoned brings humane presence and assistance to those deprived of liberty, including people unjustly confined or otherwise held captive. It neither approves wrongdoing nor abandons justice, but refuses to treat any prisoner as beyond dignity, truth, or mercy.
Shelter the homeless
Sheltering the homeless provides safe lodging or helps secure it for those without a stable place to live. Traditional language calls this harboring the harborless, extending hospitality and protection to the stranger and displaced person.
Visit the sick
Saint & Feast
Principal celebrationCalendar title
Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
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Commemoration
Bernard
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
Burgundian saint, abbot and theologian (1090–1153)
Born
1090-01-01 · Fontaine-lès-Dijon
Died
1153-08-20 · Clairvaux Abbey
Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist., venerated as Saint Bernard, was an abbot, mystic, co-founder of the Knights Templar, and a major leader in the reform of the Benedictines through the nascent Cistercian Order.
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Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Church distinguishes mortal and venial sins according to their gravity and their effect on charity. Mortal sin is a grave violation of God’s law that turns a person away from God; it requires grave matter, full knowledge, and deliberate consent. It destroys charity and calls for God’s mercy and conversion of heart, normally within the sacrament of reconciliation. Venial sin, though it offends and wounds charity, does not break friendship with God. It weakens charity and can gradually dispose us toward mortal sin if it is deliberate and unrepented. As we reflect on our actions, we can acknowledge the seriousness of sin, seek repentance and God’s forgiveness, and entrust the judgment of persons to God’s justice and mercy.
¶ 1857
For a sin to be mortal, three conditions must together be met: "Mortal sin is sin whose object is grave matter and which is also committed with full knowledge and deliberate consent."
¶ 1858
Grave matter is specified by the Ten Commandments, corresponding to the answer of Jesus to the rich young man: "Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and your mother." The gravity of sins is more or less great: murder is graver than theft. One must also take into account who is wronged: violence against parents is in itself graver than violence against a stranger.
Visiting the sick relieves the isolation and practical burdens caused by illness. Presence, care, needed assistance, and attention to spiritual needs all recognize the sick person as a neighbor rather than as a problem to be avoided.
Bury the dead
Burying the dead gives reverent care to every human body in view of its God-given dignity and the resurrection of the body. For the baptized, it also honors the body’s consecration as a temple of the Holy Ghost, while assisting the bereaved and securing a dignified burial.
Commemoration
Assumption
Sixth Day Within the Octave of Assumption
Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic Churches
The Assumption of Mary is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Pope Pius XII defined it on 1 November 1950 in his apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus as the assumption of Mary, body and soul, into heaven.
Mortal sin requires full knowledge and complete consent. It presupposes knowledge of the sinful character of the act, of its opposition to God's law. It also implies a consent sufficiently deliberate to be a personal choice. Feigned ignorance and hardness of heart do not diminish, but rather increase, the voluntary character of a sin.
¶ 1860
Unintentional ignorance can diminish or even remove the imputability of a grave offense. But no one is deemed to be ignorant of the principles of the moral law, which are written in the conscience of every man. the promptings of feelings and passions can also diminish the voluntary and free character of the offense, as can external pressures or pathological disorders. Sin committed through malice, by deliberate choice of evil, is the gravest.
¶ 1861
Mortal sin is a radical possibility of human freedom, as is love itself. It results in the loss of charity and the privation of sanctifying grace, that is, of the state of grace. If it is not redeemed by repentance and God's forgiveness, it causes exclusion from Christ's kingdom and the eternal death of hell, for our freedom has the power to make choices for ever, with no turning back. However, although we can judge that an act is in itself a grave offense, we must entrust judgment of persons to the justice and mercy of God.
¶ 1862
One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent.
¶ 1863
Venial sin weakens charity; it manifests a disordered affection for created goods; it impedes the soul's progress in the exercise of the virtues and the practice of the moral good; it merits temporal punishment. Deliberate and unrepented venial sin disposes us little by little to commit mortal sin. However venial sin does not set us in direct opposition to the will and friendship of God; it does not break the covenant with God. With God's grace it is humanly reparable. "Venial sin does not deprive the sinner of sanctifying grace, friendship with God, charity, and consequently eternal happiness."
¶ 1864
"Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin." There are no limits to the mercy of God, but anyone who deliberately refuses to accept his mercy by repenting, rejects the forgiveness of his sins and the salvation offered by the Holy Spirit. Such hardness of heart can lead to final impenitence and eternal loss.
Baltimore track
Baltimore Catechism No. 3
Lesson 22 — On the Holy Eucharist
Q. 889.How was the substance of the bread and wine changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ?
A.The substance of the bread and wine was changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ by His almighty power.
Q. 890.Does this change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ continue to be made in the Church?
A.This change of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ continues to be made in the Church by Jesus Christ through the ministry of His priests.
Q. 891.When did Christ give His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood?
A.Christ gave His priests the power to change bread and wine into His body and blood when He said to the Apostles, "Do this in commemoration of Me."