Today is Wednesday of the 2nd week of Lent. The liturgical color is violet.
Saints & Celebrations:
On March 7, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St.s Perpetua and Felicity, martyrs. It is a memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Thomas Aquinas, OP, confessor, and doctor of the Church, who died in A.D. 1274. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s Perpetua and Felicity, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Thomas Aquinas, 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:
137. This pious exercise [the Via Matris or “Way of the Mother”] harmonizes well with certain themes that are proper to the lenten season. Since the sorrows of Our Lady are caused by the rejection of her Son (cf. John 1,11; Lk 2, 1-7; 2, 34-35; 4, 28-29; Mt 26, 47-56; Acts 12, 1-5), the Via Matris constantly and necessarily refers to the mystery of Christ as the suffering servant (cf. Is 52, 13-53, 12). It also refers to the mystery of the Church: the stations of the Via Matris are stages on the journey of faith and sorrow on which the Virgin Mary has preceded the Church, and in which the Church journeys until the end of time.
The highest expression of the Via Matris is the Pieta which has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for Christian art since the middles ages.
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