Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 15 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Sunday

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost falls in the season called Time after Pentecost (sometimes “Ordinary Time”), the long stretch of the Church’s year devoted to growth in Christian life after the great feasts. The canonical rank “Semidouble” is an older liturgical term meaning the day has a moderate level of liturgical celebration: particular prayers, readings, and hymns are assigned, but it is not as solemn as a major feast or a double of the first class. As a Sunday, it is a weekly Lord’s Day observance rather than a one-time saint’s feast; there is no octave or special vigil attached in this context. The celebration matters because Sundays form the rhythm of prayer and worship for Christian families: they gather, hear the Scriptures appointed for the season, receive instruction and grace, and are sent forth to live what they have heard during the coming week.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

The Evangelical Counsels

Chastity
The evangelical counsel of chastity is the voluntary renunciation of marriage for the sake of Christ and undivided service to His kingdom. It goes beyond the chastity required of every Christian and, when vowed in religious life, offers the whole person to God.
Poverty
The evangelical counsel of poverty is the voluntary surrender or restricted use of personal possessions in order to follow Christ with greater freedom. It goes beyond ordinary justice and detachment by making material goods subject to a stable form of Gospel renunciation.
Obedience
The evangelical counsel of obedience is the voluntary offering of one’s will to God through lawful religious authority and an approved rule. St. Thomas calls it the chief religious vow because it offers not merely possessions or bodily goods, but the direction of one’s own will.

Saint & Feast

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Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

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Commemoration

Francis of Assisi

Impression of the Stigmata of St. Francis

Italian Catholic saint, friar, deacon and preacher and founder of the Franciscan Order (1181/2–1226)

Born: 1182-06-24 · Assisi
Died: 1226-10-03 · Portiuncula

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of poverty, he became a beggar and an itinerant preacher.

Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Ten Commandments offer a clear expression of what is required in love of God and love of neighbor. The first three commandments concern love of God, while the other seven concern love of neighbor. In fidelity to Scripture and the example of Jesus, they have held a predominant place in the Church’s catechesis since St. Augustine, and catechisms have often used their order to explain Christian morality. They are not simply separate rules: the Decalogue forms a coherent whole, with each commandment referring to the others and to all of them. As part of God’s revelation, the commandments express our fundamental duties toward God and neighbor and teach us about true humanity.

The Ten Commandments express God’s covenant with his people and remain permanently valid, as Jesus attested by his life and preaching. Jesus teaches that those who abide in him bear fruit, and he tells those who would enter life to keep the commandments. The commandments form an organic unity, express the natural law in a privileged way, and state grave obligations, even though obedience also includes matters that may be light in themselves. As we read them together, we can remember with hope that what God commands, he makes possible by his grace.

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The Council of Trent teaches that the Ten Commandments are obligatory for Christians and that the

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Today's Mass Readings

Open the day's Sancta MissaDivinum Officium · Divino Afflatu - 1954View readings

Understanding the Day

Daily Prayer

Weekly Prayer

Weekly Formation

The Evangelical Counsels

The Evangelical Counsels

Saint & Feast

Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost

Francis of Assisi

Today in Church History

Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Today's Mass Readings

Baltimore Catechism No. 3