Catholic Family Devotions

Understanding the Day

Season

Time After Pentecost

Week

Week 21 of Time After Pentecost

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Weekday

We are in the Season after Pentecost, often called Ordinary Time in some traditions, when the Church listens to how the life of Christ shapes ordinary Christian living. This Monday is a feria: a weekday without a special feast assigned. In plain language, a feria means the day follows the regular liturgy of the week rather than celebrating a particular saint or solemnity. There is no octave or vigil associated with this day; it belongs to Week 21 of the Time after Pentecost and continues the weekly cycle of Scripture, prayers, and the Eucharist. Why this matters for a family: ferial days invite steady, practical discipleship.

Daily Prayer

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Weekly Prayer

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Weekly Formation

Envy and Brotherly Love

The Way of Darkness

Envy
Envy is sorrow at another person’s good because that good is viewed as diminishing one’s own excellence or advantage. It opposes charity by resenting what should be welcomed and can lead to detraction, hostility, or pleasure at another’s misfortune.

The Way of Light

Brotherly Love
Brotherly love rejoices in another person’s true good and acts to promote it. It opposes envy by seeing another’s gifts, success, and holiness not as a personal loss but as goods that can serve God and the whole community.

Featured Saint

Modern saint

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Monday of Week 21 of Time after Pentecost

Saint Maravillas of Jesus

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Catechism

Catechism of the Catholic Church

The Catechism teaches that marriage calls spouses to a faithful, total, unique, and exclusive love, honoring the equal personal dignity of man and woman. Polygamy, adultery, divorce, and free union offend the dignity of marriage, while incest corrupts family relationships. Sexual abuse of children or adolescents entrusted to adults’ care causes grave harm to the young and violates the responsibility for their upbringing. Love is the fundamental vocation of every person, and Christ is the model of chastity; every baptized person is called to live chastely according to his or her state of life. Within marriage, spouses are called to faithful and indissoluble love, to receive fecundity as a gift and good of marriage, and to practice responsible parenthood through morally acceptable means.

The Seventh Commandment calls us to respect our neighbors' goods, emphasizing justice and charity in how we manage our resources. God entrusts the earth to all of humanity, urging us to use and share its bounty responsibly, ensuring that everyone's basic needs are met and fostering solidarity among us. While private property is a legitimate right, it carries the responsibility of stewardship; we must see our possessions not just as ours, but as resources meant to benefit others, especially our families and those in need. This understanding promotes a culture of generosity and moderation, reminding us that political authority also plays a role in regulating ownership for the common good, thus fostering a just society where all can thrive.

¶ 2399

The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

Today's Mass Readings

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