Today is the 11th Sunday of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Pentecost.
In the Extraordinary Form, it is the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 17, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Gregory Barbarigo, bishop and confessor, who died in A.D. 1697. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Gregory Barbarigo, 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 Letter on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation:
18. The seeking of God through prayer has to be preceded and accompanied by an ascetical struggle and a purification from one’s own sins and errors, since Jesus has said that only “the pure of heart shall see God” (Mt 5:8). The Gospel aims above all at a moral purification from the lack of truth and love and, on a deeper level, from all the selfish instincts which impede man from recognizing and accepting the Will of God in its purity. The passions are not negative in themselves (as the Stoics and Neoplatonists thought), but their tendency is to selfishness. It is from this that the Christian has to free himself in order to arrive at that state of positive freedom which in classical Christian times was called “apatheia,” in the Middle Ages “Impassibilitas” and in the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises “indiferencia.”19 This is impossible without a radical self-denial, as can also be seen in St. Paul who openly uses the word “mortification” (of sinful tendencies).20 Only this self-denial renders man free to carry out the will of God and to share in the freedom of the Holy Spirit.