Today is Friday of the 11th week of Ordinary Time. The liturgical color is green.
In the Extraordinary Form, this is the season after Pentecost, and the liturgical color for today is red.
Saints & Celebrations:
On June 22, in both the Ordinary and the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St. Paulinus of Nola, bishop of Nola and confessor, who died in A.D. 432. In the Ordinary Form, it is an optional memorial, and in the Extraordinary Form, it is a Class III day.
In the Ordinary Form, we also celebrate St.s John Fisher, bishop, and Thomas More, both martyrs. It is an optional memorial.
If you’d like to learn more about St. Paulinus, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about St. John Fisher, you can click here.
If you’d like to learn more about Thomas More, 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:
23. Without doubt, a Christian needs certain periods of retreat into solitude to be recollected and, in God’s presence, rediscover his path. Nevertheless, given his character as a creature, and as a creature who knows that only in grace is he secure, his method of getting closer to God is not based on any technique in the strict sense of the word. That would contradict the spirit of childhood called for by the Gospel. Genuine Christian mysticism has nothing to do with technique: it is always a gift of God, and the one who benefits from it knows himself to be unworthy.27