Today is Tuesday of the 3rd week in Ordinary Time. The
liturgical color is white.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Epiphany, and the liturgical color for today is red.
Saints & Celebrations:
On January 24, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St. Francis de Sales, bishop and doctor of the Church. It
is a memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Timothy, bishop of Ephesus, martyr, who died in A.D. 97. It is a
Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Francis de Sales, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Timothy, 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:
The Modern Period
34. At the dawn of the modern period, a balanced relationship between Liturgy
and popular piety did not seem any more likely. The devotio moderna of the late fifteenth century was
popular with many great spiritual masters and was widespread among clerics and cultivated laymen. It
promoted the development of meditative and affective pious exercises based principally on the humanity of
Christ – the myteries of his infancy, his hidden life, his Passion and death. However, the primacy accorded to
contemplation, the importance attributed to subjectivity and a certain ascetical pragmatism exalting human
endeavour ensured that Liturgy no longer appeared as the primary source of the Christian life in the eyes of men
and women advanced in the spiritual life.
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