Today is Saturday of the 1st week of Lent. The liturgical color is violet.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is Saturday of Ember Week in Lent.
Saints & Celebrations:
On March 3, in the Ordinary Form in the United States, we celebrate St. Katharine Drexel, virgin. It is an optional memorial.
There is no special fixed liturgical day in the Extraordinary Form.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Katharine Drexel, 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:
133. The Via Crucis [“Way of the Cross”] is a journey made in the Holy Spirit, that divine fire which burned in the heart of Jesus (cf. Lk 12, 49-50) and brought him to Calvary. This is a journey well esteemed by the Church since it has retained a living memory of the words and gestures of the final earthly days of her Spouse and Lord.
In the Via Crucis, various strands of Christian piety coalesce: the idea of life being a journey or pilgrimage; as a passage from earthly exile to our true home in Heaven; the deep desire to be conformed to the Passion of Christ; the demands of following Christ, which imply that his disciples must follow behind the Master, daily carrying their own crosses (cf Lk 9, 23).
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