September 7
Monday, week 23 in Ordinary Time
Today in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar is a ferial day in the 23rd week of Ordinary Time. The word "feria" refers to a weekday with no obligatory saint or specific liturgical feast attached, allowing the Church to continue the cycle of readings and prayers from Ordinary Time. Ordinary Time itself is a period focused on the day-to-day living of Christian faith, contemplating the teachings and works of Jesus through the Gospel readings.
These days are a quiet invitation for the faithful to deepen their spiritual life, not through extraordinary events but through the ordinariness of daily conversion, prayer, and charity. The liturgical color for ferial days in Ordinary Time is green, symbolizing hope, growth, and life in Christ. While there is no particular saint or feast commemorated today, the Church encourages reflection on the Scripture readings and on the ongoing call to discipleship in the everyday world.
Ferial days remind us that holiness is often found not in great heroic deeds but in ordinary fidelity to Christ. They provide a valuable spiritual rhythm, punctuating the year with quiet spaces for prayerful listening, personal renewal, and growth in the love of God and neighbor.
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Questions about Monday, week 23 in Ordinary Time (Novus Ordo Missae)
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Reading1 Co 5, 1-8
Brothers,
it is widely reported
that there is sexual immorality among you,
impropriety of a kind not even found among pagans:
it is that a man is living with his father’s wife.
And in spite of this, you are inflated with pride
instead of mourning
and expelling from your community the one who has done this.
As for me,
though absent in body, I am present in spirit,
and I have already passed judgment, as if I were present,
on the man who has acted in this way:
in the name of the Lord Jesus,
when you are gathered together and I am with you in spirit,
with the power of our Lord Jesus,
this man is to be handed over to Satan
for the destruction of the flesh,
so that his spirit may be saved on the day of the Lord.
For real, you have nothing to be proud of.
Do you not know that a little yeast
leavens the whole batch of dough?
Cleanse out the old yeast,
so that you may be a new batch,
as you really are unleavened bread.
For our paschal lamb has been sacrificed:
it is Christ.
So let us celebrate the feast,
not with the old yeast,
not with the yeast of malice and evil,
but with the unleavened bread
of sincerity and truth.
— The word of the Lord.
PsalmPs 5, 2-3, 5-6ab, 6c-7, 12
You are not a God who is a friend to evil,
the wicked will not be received by you.
No, the fool cannot stand
in your sight.
You hate all evildoers,
you destroy liars;
the man of deceit and blood,
the Lord detests.
Joy for those who take refuge in you,
eternal gladness!
You protect them; they rejoice in you,
those who love your name.
GospelLc 6, 6-11
One sabbath day,
Jesus went into the synagogue and was teaching.
There was a man there whose right hand was withered.
The scribes and the Pharisees were watching Jesus
to see if he would heal on the sabbath,
and so have some reason to accuse him.
But he knew their thoughts,
and he said to the man with the withered hand:
“Get up and stand here in the middle.”
The man got up and stood there.
Jesus said to them:
“I ask you:
Is it lawful on the sabbath
to do good or to do harm?
to save life or to destroy it?”
He looked around at them all
and said to the man:
“Stretch out your hand.”
He did so, and his hand was restored.
But they were filled with fury
and discussed among themselves
what they might do to Jesus.
— Let us acclaim the Word of God.
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