Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 16 of Time After Pentecost

Rank

Second-class feast

This feast falls in Ordinary Time after Pentecost, a season focused on the everyday growth of Christian life and witness. There is no octave or vigil noted here, so the observance is celebrated on the single day indicated. Such celebrations help children see holiness expressed in diverse times and places.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Pride and Humility

The Way of Darkness

Pride
Pride is an inordinate esteem of oneself or one’s own excellence that resists dependence on God and right order toward others. It may appear as vanity and superiority, but also as a self-absorbed preoccupation with one’s misery that refuses humble trust in God.

The Way of Light

Humility
Humility is the truthful recognition that every good comes from God and that personal gifts, limits, and duties must be seen as they really are. It avoids both self-exaltation and false self-contempt, placing confidence in God rather than in an invented image of oneself.

Saint & Feast

Principal celebration

Canadian Martyrs

Sts. Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brébeuf and Companions, Martyrs

The Canadian Martyrs are eight Jesuit missionaries and lay associates killed in the 1640s in what is now Canada and New York.

The Canadian Martyrs are eight Jesuit missionaries and lay associates killed in the 1640s in what is now Canada and New York. They were canonized together in 1930 and are commemorated in Canada on September 26.

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Commemoration

Cyprian

Sts. Cyprian and Justina, Martyrs

pair of Christians martyred in 304

Today in Church History

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

Agnosticism can take different forms: it may include a search for God, but it can also express indifference toward the ultimate question of existence or become practical atheism. The first commandment calls us to believe in God, hope in him, and love him above all else. It also calls us to adore God, pray to him, offer him the worship due to him, and fulfill promises and vows made to him. This duty of authentic worship concerns us both personally and socially. Sacred images, rooted in the Incarnation of the Word of God, may be venerated with respect: the honor given to an image passes to the person portrayed. Yet adoration belongs to God alone. As we reflect together, we can ask for hearts that turn from indifference and superstition and grow in authentic worship of God.

The second commandment calls us to respect and honor the holy name of God, which he shares with those who believe in him as a gift of trust and intimacy. This reverence shapes our speech in sacred matters: we are to keep God’s name in silent, loving adoration and use it to bless, praise, and glorify him. As we share the faith in our homes and daily lives, our words about the Lord, the Virgin Mary, and the saints should reflect the respect due to sacred things. Promises made in God’s name carry the weight of his honor, fidelity, truthfulness, and authority, and therefore must be kept in justice. The misuse of God’s name, including blasphemy, is contrary to the respect owed to God; blasphemy is in itself a grave sin. Our confession of faith, preaching, and catechesis should be filled with adoration and respect for the name of Jesus.

¶ 2136

The duty to offer God authentic worship concerns man both as an individual and as a social being.

Today's Mass Readings

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