Today is Wednesday of the 11th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Pentecost.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 20, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Silverius, pope and martyr, who died in A.D. 538. It is a commemoration.
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For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
Readings:
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Devotional Information:
According to the Holy See’s Letter on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation:
21. On the path of the Christian life, illumination follows on from purification, through the love which the Father bestows on us in the Son and the anointing which we receive from him in the Holy Spirit (cf. 1 Jn 2:20). Ever since the early Christian period, writers have referred to the “illumination” received in Baptism. After their initiation into the divine mysteries, this illumination brings the faithful to know Christ by means of the faith which works through love. Some ecclesiastical writers even speak explicitly of the illumination received in Baptism as the basis of that sublime knowledge of Christ Jesus (cf. Phil 3:8), which is defined as “theoria” or contemplation.24 The faithful, with the grace of Baptism, are called to progress in the knowledge and witness of the mysteries of the faith by “the intimate sense of spiritual realities which they experience.”25 No light from God can render the truths of the faith redundant. Any subsequent graces of illumination which God may grant rather help to make clearer the depth of the mysteries confessed and celebrated by the Church, as we wait for the day when the Christian can contemplate God as He is in glory (cf. 1 Jn 3:2).