Today is Friday 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.
Saints & Celebrations:
On January 27, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St. Angela Merici, virgin and founder of the Ursulines. It is an optional memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. John Chrysostom, bishop, confessor, and doctor of the Church, who died in A.D. 407. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Angel Merici, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. John Chrysostom, 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:
37. Among those most concerned for the reform of the Church at beginning of the sixteenth century, mention must be of two Camoldelesi monks, Paolo Giustiniani and Pietro Querini, authors of the famous Libellus ad Leonem X which set out important principles for the revitalization of the Liturgy so as to open its treasures to the entire People of God. They advocated biblical instruction for the clergy and religious, the adoption of the vernacular in the celebration of the divine mysteries and the reform of the liturgical books. They also advocated the elimination of spurious elements deriving from erroneous popular piety, and the promotion of catechesis so as to make the faithful aware of the importance of the Liturgy.
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