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Sunday 29 September 2024    (other days)
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time 

Using calendar: New Zealand - Wellington. You can change this.

We are the people of the Lord, the flock that is led by his hand: come, let us adore him, alleluia.

Year: B(II). Psalm week: 2. Liturgical Colour: Green.

In other years: St Michael

He is mentioned in the Apocalypse as the leader of the heavenly host. He is a patron of soldiers.
  See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

In other years: St Gabriel

He appears in the book of Daniel to explain some of the prophet’s visions, and was also the bearer of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

In other years: St Raphael

In the Book of Tobit, he is the angel who heals Tobit of his blindness. His name means God heals.
  See the article in the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:

Second Reading: St Polycarp (- 155)

Polycarp was a disciple of the Apostles, bishop of Smyrna, and a friend of St Ignatius of Antioch. He went to Rome to confer with Pope Anicetus about the celebration of Easter. He was martyred at Smyrna in about 155 by being burnt to death in the stadium. Polycarp is an important figure in the history of the Church because he is one of the earliest Christians whose writings still survive. He bears witness to the beliefs of the early Christians and the early stages of the development of doctrine.

Liturgical colour: green

The theological virtue of hope is symbolized by the colour green, just as the burning fire of love is symbolized by red. Green is the colour of growing things, and hope, like them, is always new and always fresh. Liturgically, green is the colour of Ordinary Time, the orderly sequence of weeks through the year, a season in which we are being neither single-mindedly penitent (in purple) nor overwhelmingly joyful (in white).

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