Today is Friday of the 8th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is red.
In the Extraordinary Form, the liturgical color for today is red.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is Ember Friday.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 1, in the Ordinary Form, we celebrate St. Justin martyr. It is a memorial.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursulines, virgin, who died in A.D. 1540. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Justin, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Angela Merici, you can click here.
For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
Readings:
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Devotional Information:
This Sunday is the Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity. According to the Holy See’s Directory on Popular Piety:
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
157. The solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity is celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost. With the growth of devotion to the mystery of God in His Unity and Trinity, John XXII extended the feast of the Holy Trinity to the entire Latin Church in 1334. During the middle ages, especially during the carolingian period, devotion to the Blessed Trinity was a highly important feature of private devotion and inspired several liturgical expressions. These events were influential in the development of certain pious exercises.
In the present context, it would not appear appropriate to mention specific pious exercises connected with popular devotion to the Blessed Trinity, “the central mystery of the faith and of the Christian life.” It sufficies to recall that every genuine form of popular piety must necessarily refer to God, “the all-powerful Father, His only begotten Son and the Holy Spirit.” Such is the mystery of God, as revealed in Christ and through him. Such have been his manifestations in salvation history. The history of salvation “is the history of the revelation of the one true God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who reconciles and unites to Himself those who have been freed from sin.”
Numerous pious exercises have a Trinitarian character or dimension. Most of them begin with the sign of the cross “in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”, the same formula with which the disciples of Jesus are baptized (cf. Mt 28, 19), thereby beginning a life of intimacy with the God, as sons of the Father, brothers of Jesus, and temples of the Holy Spirit. Other pious exercises use formulas similar to those found in the Liturgy of the Hours and begin by giving “Glory to the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.” Some pious exercises end with a blessing given in the name of the three divine Persons. Many of the prayers used in these pious exercises follow the typical liturgical form and are addressed to the “Father, through Christ, in the Holy Spirit”, and conserve doxological formulas taken from the Liturgy.
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