Today is Tuesday of the 12th 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 26, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St.s John and Paul, martyred at Rome, who died in A.D. 362. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s John and Paul, 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:
According to the Holy See’s Letter on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation:
26. Human experience shows that the position and demeanor of the body also have their influence on the recollection and dispositions of the spirit. This is a fact to which some eastern and western Christian spiritual writers have directed their attention.
Their reflections, while presenting points in common with eastern non-Christian methods of meditation, avoid the exaggerations and partiality of the latter, which, however, are often recommended to people today who are not sufficiently prepared.
The spiritual authors have adopted those elements which make recollection in prayer easier, at the same time recognizing their relative value: they are useful if reformulated in accordance with the aim of Christian prayer.30 For example, the Christian fast signifies, above all, an exercise of penitence and sacrifice; but, already for the Fathers, it also had the aim of rendering man more open to the encounter with God and making a Christian more capable of self-dominion and at the same time more attentive to those in need.
In prayer it is the whole man who must enter into relation with God, and so his body should also take up the position most suited to recollection.31 Such a position can in a symbolic way express the prayer itself, depending on cultures and personal sensibilities. In some aspects, Christians are today becoming more conscious of how one’s bodily posture can aid prayer.