Today is Tuesday of the 6th week in Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is white.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Septuagesima, and the liturgical color for today is violet.
Saints & Celebrations:
On February 14, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St.s Cyril, monk, and Methodius, bishop. It is a memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Valentine, priest and martyr, who died in A.D. 270. It is a commemoration.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s Cyril and Methodius, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Valentine, 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:
55. Any unilateral exaltation of popular piety which fails to take account of the Liturgy, is inconsistent with the fact that the essential elements of the Liturgy derive from the will of Christ himself, and is unable to emphasize its indispensable sotereological and doxological importance. Following the Lord’s ascension to the glory of the Father, and the descent of the Holy Spirit, the perfect glorification of God and the salvation of man comes about primarily through the celebration of the liturgy, which requires an adherence of faith, and brings the believer to participate in the fundamental salvific event: the Passion, Death and Resurrection of Christ (cf. Rm 6,2-6, 1 Cor 11,23-26).
The Church’s understanding of her mystery, and her worshipping and saving actions, constantly affirms that it is through “the Liturgy…, especially in the divine sacrifice of the Eucharist, [that] ‘the work of our redemption is accomplished’.” This affirmation, however, does not deny the importance of other forms of piety.
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