Today is Saturday of the 2nd week of Lent. The liturgical color is violet.
Saints & Celebrations:
On March 10, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, martyrs, who died in A.D. 320. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about the Forty Martyrs of Sebaste, 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:
65. In its attempts to remedy such defects in popular piety, the contemporary Magisterium has insistently stressed the need to “evangelize” popular piety, and sees it in relation to the Gospel which “will progressively free it from its defects; purify it, consolidate it and clarify that which is ambiguous by referring it of the contents of faith, hope and charity.”
Pastoral sensibility recommends that the work of “evangelizing” popular piety should proceed patiently, tolerantly, and with great prudence, following the methodology adopted by the Church throughout the centuries in matters relating to inculturation of the Christian faith, the Sacred Liturgy and those inherent in popular piety.
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