This feast falls in the Time After Pentecost, the long liturgical season focused on the Christian life grown and lived in the Spirit after the Church’s celebration of Easter and Pentecost. Ordinary Sundays and weekday celebrations in this season help families reflect on discipleship, charity, and the growth of holiness in daily life. There is no octave or vigil attached here, so this is a one-day observance.
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 celebration
Jane Frances de Chantal
St. Jeanne-Françoise Frémiot de Chantal, Widow
French nun and saint
Born
1572-01-28 · Dijon
Died
1641-12-13 · Moulins
Jane Frances de Chantal, VHM was a French Catholic noble widow and nun who was beatified in 1751 and canonized in 1767. She founded the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary. The religious order accepted women who were rejected by other orders because of poor health or age.
No Church history reflection has been prepared for this date yet.
Catechism
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Sin, as described in the Catechism, creates a cycle that weakens our moral judgment and fosters vices, leading us further away from God. Families should recognize that personal actions can impact not only individual lives but also the wider community, highlighting our shared responsibility in promoting virtue and justice. The Catechism identifies capital sins—like pride, envy, and lust—as roots from which other sins grow, reminding us to cultivate the opposing virtues in our daily lives. By acknowledging the seriousness of both mortal and venial sins, families can strive together for repentance and healing, fostering a home environment rooted in charity and moral integrity.
¶ 1865
Sin creates a proclivity to sin; it engenders vice by repetition of the same acts. This results in perverse inclinations which cloud conscience and corrupt the concrete judgment of good and evil. Thus sin tends to reproduce itself and reinforce itself, but it cannot destroy the moral sense at its root.
¶ 1866
Vices can be classified according to the virtues they oppose, or also be linked to the capital sins which Christian experience has distinguished, following St. John Cassian and St. Gregory the Great. They are called "capital" because they engender other sins, other vices. They are pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth or acedia.
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.
Seventh Day Within the Octave of the 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.
The catechetical tradition also recalls that there are "sins that cry to heaven": the blood of Abel, The sin of the Sodomites, The cry of the people oppressed in Egypt, The cry of the foreigner, the widow, and the orphan, injustice to the wage earner.
¶ 1868
Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them: - by participating directly and voluntarily in them; - by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them; - by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so; - by protecting evil-doers.
¶ 1869
Thus sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them. Sins give rise to social situations and institutions that are contrary to the divine goodness. "Structures of sin" are the expression and effect of personal sins. They lead their victims to do evil in their turn. In an analogous sense, they constitute a "social sin."
¶ 1870
"God has consigned all men to disobedience, that he may have mercy upon all" ( Rom 11:32).
¶ 1871
Sin is an utterance, a deed, or a desire contrary to the eternal law (St. Augustine, Faust 22: PL 42, 418). It is an offense against God. It rises up against God in a disobedience contrary to the obedience of Christ.
¶ 1872
Sin is an act contrary to reason. It wounds man's nature and injures human solidarity.
Baltimore track
Baltimore Catechism No. 3
Lesson 22 — On the Holy Eucharist
Q. 892.What do the words "Do this in commemoration of Me" mean?
A.The words "Do this in commemoration of Me" mean: Do what I, Christ, am doing at My last supper, namely, changing the substance of bread and wine into the substance of My body and blood; and do it in remembrance of Me.
Q. 893.How do the priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ?
A.The priests exercise this power of changing bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ through the words of consecration in the Mass, which are words of Christ: "This is my body; this is my blood."
Q. 894.At what part of the Mass does the Consecration take place?
A.The Consecration in the Mass takes place immediately before the elevation of the Host and Chalice, which are raised above the head of the priest that the people may adore Our Lord who has just come to the altar at the words of Consecration.