Today is Thursday 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 26, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St.s Timothy and Titus, bishops. It is a memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, martyr, who died in A.D. 169. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s Timothy and Titus, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Polycarp, 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:
36. From the end of the fifteenth to the beginning of the sixteenth century, the discovery of Africa, America and the Far East caused the question of the relationship between Liturgy and popular piety to be posed in new terms.
While the work of evangelizing and catechising countries distant from the cultural and [ritual] centre of the Roman Rite was certainly accomplished through preaching the Word and celebrating the sacraments (cf. Mt 28, 19), it also came about through the pious exercises popularized by the missionaries.
Pious exercises became a means of transmitting the Gospel message and, following conversion, of preserving the Christian faith. By virtue of the norms designed to preserve the Roman Rite, there were few reciprocal influences bewteen the Liturgy and the autochthonous cultures. In Paraguay, the Reductiones are a rare example of this. The encounter with these cultures, however, was easily facilitated in the field of popular piety.
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