The Church Year: Jan. 23, 2012

Today is Monday of the 3rd week in Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.

In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Epiphany, and the liturgical color for today is white.

In the Ordinary Form, this is the Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of the Unborn in the Dioceses of the United States.

 

Saints & Celebrations:

On January 23, in the Ordinary Form in the United States, we celebrate St. Vincent, deacon and martyr. It is an optional memorial.

In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Raymond of Penafort, OP, confessor, who died in A.D. 1275. It is a Class III day.

In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Emerentiana, virgin and martyr, who died in A.D. 304. This celebration is a commemoration.

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

If you’d like to learn more about St. Raymond of Penafort, you can click here.

If you’d like to learn more about St. Emerentiana, 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:

33. In the middle ages, the relationship between Liturgy and popular piety is constant and complex, but a dual movement can be detected in that same relationship: the Liturgy inspired and nourished various expressions of popular piety; and several forms of popular piety were assumed by, and integrated into the Liturgy. This is especially true with regard to the rites of consecration of persons, the assumption of personal obligations, the dedication of places, the institution of feasts and to the various blessings.

A dualism, however, prevailed between Liturgy and popular piety. Towards the end of the middles ages, both, however, went through a period of crisis. Because of the collapse of [ritual] unity, secondary elements in the Liturgy acquired an excessive relevance to the detriment of its central elements. In popular piety, because of the lack of adequate catechesis, deviations and exaggerations threatened the correct expressions of Christian worship.

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