Today is Wednesday of the 2nd week in Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Epiphany.
Saints & Celebrations:
Today, January 18, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Prisca, virgin and martyr, who died in the 1st century. It is a commemoration.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Prisca, 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:
In many places, today begins a Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:
182. At every celebration of the Holy Eucharist, the Church prays for unity and peace, mindful of the Jesus’ prayer. “May they all be one. Father, may they be one in us, as you are in me and I am in you, so that the world may believe it was you who sent me” (John 17, 21). The Missale Romanum contains three Masses -among those for various needs- “for Christian unity.” The same intention is remembered in the intercessions of the Liturgy of the Hours.”
In deference to the sensibilities of the “separated brethren”, expressions of popular piety should take into account the principle of ecumenism. Effectively, “change of heart and holiness of life, along with public and private prayer for the unity of Christians, should be regarded as the soul of the whole ecumenical movement, and merits the name ‘spiritual ecumenism’.” The encounter of Catholics with Christians from other Churches or ecclesial communities affords a special occasion for common prayer for the grace of Christian unity, to offer to God their common anxieties, to give thanks to God and to implore his assistance. “Common prayer is particularly recommended during the “Week of Prayer for Christian Unity” or during the period between Ascension and Pentecost.” Prayer for Christian unity also carries several indulgences.
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