The Church Year: Jan. 25, 2012

Today is Wednesday of the 3rd week in Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is white.

In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Epiphany.

 

Saints & Celebrations:

On January 25, in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate the Conversion of St. Paul the apostle. In the Ordinary Form, it is a feast, and in the Extraordinary Form, it is a Class III day.

In the Extraordinary Form, we also celebrate St. Peter, apostle. This celebration is a commemoration.

If you’d like to learn more about the Conversion of St. Paul the apostle, you can click here.

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

Or you can click play to listen to them:

 

Devotional Information:

According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:

35. The De Imitatione Christi is regarded as a tyical expression of the devotio moderna. It has exercised an extraordinary and beneficial influence on many of the Lord’s disciples in their quest for Christian perfection. The De Imitatione Christi orients the faithful towards a certain type of individual piety which accentuates detachment from the world and the invitation to hear the Master’s voice interiorly. Less attention is devoted to the communitarian and ecclesial aspects of prayer and to liturgical spirituality.

Many excellent pious exercises are to be found among those who cultivated the devotio moderna, as well as [ritual] expressions deriving from sincerely devout persons. A full appreciation of the celebration of the Liturgy is not, however, always to be found in such circles.

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Author: Jimmy Akin

Jimmy was born in Texas, grew up nominally Protestant, but at age 20 experienced a profound conversion to Christ. Planning on becoming a Protestant seminary professor, he started an intensive study of the Bible. But the more he immersed himself in Scripture the more he found to support the Catholic faith, and in 1992 he entered the Catholic Church. His conversion story, "A Triumph and a Tragedy," is published in Surprised by Truth. Besides being an author, Jimmy is the Senior Apologist at Catholic Answers, a contributing editor to Catholic Answers Magazine, and a weekly guest on "Catholic Answers Live."

One thought on “The Church Year: Jan. 25, 2012”

  1. Hi Jimmy,

    My friend and I recently started a Catholic blog together, and I was wondering if you would be willing to stop by sometime and give us some feedback. We’re quite new to the world of “evangelizing” or “publicizing” the faith through media, and we’re hoping to get some strong and positive support from big (dare I say, intimidating!) Catholic bloggers like you and many others whom we find inspiring. It seems there are many faithful Catholic blogs out there which I have only recently become aware of, but I think that if the Church is universal enough to shelter people of all sorts under Her wings, why not blogs?

    Our blog address is blood-of-the-lamb.blogspot.com. Thank you so much for all the work you do to share the Truth with the world.

    In Christ,

    Elizabeth

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