Today is Wednesday of the 5th week in Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Septuagesima, and the liturgical color for today is white.
Saints & Celebrations:
On February 8, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St. Jerome Emiliani, founder of the Order of Somascha. It is an optional memorial.
In the Ordinary Form, we celebrate, St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin. It is an optional memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. John of Matha, founder of the Order of Trinitarians, confessor, who died in A.D. 1213. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Jerome Emiliani, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Josephine Bakhita, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. John of Matha, you can click here.
For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
Readings:
To see today’s readings in the Ordinary Form, you can click here.
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Devotional Information:
According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:
49. Each of these factors, and both in certain cases, not infrequently produces imbalances in the relationship between the Liturgy and popular piety, to the former’s detriment and the latter’s impoverishment. These should therefore be corrected through careful and persistent catechetical and pastoral work.
Conversely, the liturgical renewal and the heightened liturgical sense of the faithful have often recontextualized popular piety in its relationship with the Liturgy. Such should be regarded as a positive development and in conformity with the most profound orientation of Christian piety.
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