Today is Saturday within the octave of Easter. The liturgical color is white.

Saints & Celebrations:

On April 14, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.

In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Justin, martyred at Rome, who died in A.D. 165. It is a Class III day.

In the Extraordinary Form, we also celebrate St.s Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus, martyrs, who died in A.D. 229. This celebration is a commemoration.

If you’d like to learn more about St. Justin, you can click here.

If you’d like to learn more about St.s Tiburtius, Valerian, and Maximus, 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:

Common Priesthood and Popular Piety

85. Through the sacraments of Christian initiation, the faithful become part of the Church, a prophetic, priestly and royal people called to worship God in spirit and in truth (cf. John 4, 23). The Church exercises this task through Christ in the Holy Spirit, not only in the Sacred Liturgy, especially in the celebration of the Holy Eucharist, but also in other forms of the Christian life, among which are numbered the various forms of popular piety. The Holy Spirit confers the ability to offer sacrifices of praise to God, to offer prayer and entreaty to Him, so as to make of one’s life “a living and holy sacrifice, pleasing to God” (Rm 12, 1; Heb 12, 28).

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