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✝ Catholic Artwork

Christ Crucified by Diego Velázquez

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✝ Liturgical Calendar

Date	Ordinary Form Feast Day (Novus Ordo)	Extraordinary Form Feast Day (TLM)
Monday, Jan 16th	Monday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time	Saint Marcellus I, pope and martyr
Tuesday, Jan 17th	Saint Anthony, abbot
Wednesday, Jan 18th	Wednesday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time	Saint Prisca, virgin and martyr
Thursday, Jan 19th	Thursday of the Second Week of Ordinary Time	Saints Marius, Martha, Audifax and Abachum, martyrs; Saint Canute, king and martyr
Friday, Jan 20th	Saints Fabian, pope, and Sebastian, martyrs
Saturday, Jan 21st	Saint Agnes, virgin and martyr
Sunday, Jan 22nd	Third Sunday of Ordinary Time*	Third Sunday after Epiphany*

*Holy day of obligation

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✝ Saint of the Week

Saint Berard and Companions (d. January 16, 1220)

Preaching the gospel is often dangerous work. Leaving one’s homeland and adjusting to new cultures, governments and languages is difficult enough; but martyrdom caps all the other sacrifices...read more

✝ Quote of the Week

Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths. – Archbishop Fulton Sheen