Today is Thursday of the 11th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is white.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Pentecost.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 21, in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Aloysius Gonzaga, SJ, confessor, who died in A.D. 1591, religious. In the Ordinary Form, it is a memorial, and in the Extraordinary Form, it is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Aloysius Gonzaga, 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:
22. Finally, the Christian who prays can, if God so wishes, come to a particular experience of union. The Sacraments, especially Baptism and the Eucharist,26 are the objective beginning of the union of the Christian with God. Upon this foundation, the person who prays can be called, by a special grace of the Spirit, to that specific type of union with God which in Christian terms is called mystical.