Today is Monday of the 10th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is red.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Pentecost.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 11, in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Barnabas, apostle who died in A.D. 61. In the Ordinary Form, it is a memorial, and in the Extraordinary Form, it is a Class III day.
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For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
Readings:
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Devotional Information:
According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:
165. In adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, which can take different forms, several elements deriving from the Liturgy and from popular piety come together and it is not always easy to determine their limits:
- a simple visit to the Blessed Sacrament: a brief encounter with Christ inspired by faith in the real presence and characterized by silent prayer;
- adoration of the Blessed Sacrament exposed for a period of time in a monstrance or pyx in accordance with liturgical norm;
- perpetual adoration or the Quarantore, involving an entire religious community, or Eucharistic association, or parish, which is usually an occasion for various expressions of Eucharistic piety.
The faithful should be encouraged to read the Scriptures during these periods of adoration, since they afford an unrivalled source of prayer. Suitable hymns and canticles based on those of the Liturgy of the Hours and the liturgical seasons could also be encouraged, as well as periods of silent prayer and reflection. Gradually, the faithful should be encouraged not to do other devotional exercises during exposition of the Blessed Sacrament. Given the close relationship between Christ and Our Lady, the rosary can always be of assistance in giving prayer a Christological orientation, since it contains meditation of the Incarnation and the Redemption.
Jimmy, surely, although this is not covered in the above forms for Eucharistic Adoration, the Eucharistic Apostlate of the Divine Mercy form of Adoration of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, was given by Jesus Christ Himself to Saint Faustina Kowalska. And He exhorted us to especially adore Him during the 3.00 O’Clock Hour – The Hour of Great Mercy – to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet for the hardened sinners, the sick, the poor, the abandoned, the dying and especially the Souls in Purgatory. The Divine Mercy Devotion has a special Stations of the Cross to be prayed at this Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament. We are also advised to pray for other Intentions during this Holy Hour. This is what Jesus says about this Holy Hour which He calls “The Hour of Great Mercy”.
“At three O’Clock, implore My Mercy, especially for sinners; and, if only for a brief moment ,immerse yourself in My Passion, particularly in my abandonment at the moment of My Agony…..In this Hour I will refuse nothing to the soul that makes a request of Me in virtue of My Passion (Diary No,1320)….”My daughter, try your best to make the Stations of the Cross in this hour……if you are not able to make the Stations of the Cross, then at least step into the Chapel for a moment and adore, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, My Heart, which is full of mercy….”.
I do believe this is the holiest Hour to adore Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament as He has revealed to us through this Holy Saint, and the form of Prayer He has recommended, – the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy – along with the usual silent moments when we listen to Him and contemplate His Passion and His unfathomable Mercy for mankind is appropriate.