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3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time 

Using calendar: Australia. You can pick a diocese or region.

Come, ring out our joy to the Lord; hail the God who saves us, alleluia.

Year: C(I). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Green.

Sunday of the Word of God in Australia

Pope Francis has declared the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time to be Sunday of the Word of God.
  The Australian Bishops have decided to move the celebration of the Sunday of the Word of God from the 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time to the first Sunday in February.

In other years: St Francis de Sales (1567 - 1622)

He was born near Annecy, in Savoy, studied the law, and was ordained to the priesthood despite the opposition of his father. His first mission was to re-evangelize the people of his home district (the Chablais), who had gone over to Calvinism. Always in danger of his life from hostile Calvinists, he preached with such effectiveness that after four years most of the people had returned to the Church. He was then appointed bishop of Geneva, and spent the rest of his life reforming and reorganising the diocese, and in caring for the souls of his people by preaching and spiritual guidance.
  St Francis taught that we can all attain a devout and spiritual life, whatever our position in society: holiness is not reserved for monks and hermits alone. He wrote that “religious devotion does not destroy: it perfects,” and his spiritual counsel is dedicated to making people more holy by making them more themselves. In his preaching against Calvinism he was driven by love rather than a desire to win: so much so, that it was a Calvinist minister who said “if we honoured anyone as a saint, I know of no-one since the days of the Apostles more worthy of it than this man.”
  St Francis is the patron saint of writers and journalists, who would do well to imitate his love and his moderation: as he said, “whoever wants to preach effectively must preach with love.”

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).

Mid-morning reading (Terce)Romans 8:15-16 ©
The spirit you received is not the spirit of slaves bringing fear into your lives again; it is the spirit of sons, and it makes us cry out, ‘Abba, Father!’ The Spirit himself and our spirit bear united witness that we are children of God.

Noon reading (Sext)Romans 8:22-23 ©
From the beginning until now the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth; and not only creation, but all of us who possess the first-fruits of the Spirit, we too groan inwardly as we wait for our bodies to be set free.

Afternoon reading (None)2 Timothy 1:9 ©
God has saved us and called us to be holy, not because of anything we ourselves have done but for his own purpose and by his own grace. This grace had already been granted to us, in Christ Jesus, before the beginning of time.

Local calendars

General Calendar

Australia

 - Adelaide

 - Armidale

 - Ballarat

 - Bathurst

 - Brisbane

 - Broken Bay

 - Broome

 - Bunbury

 - Cairns

 - Canberra-Goulburn

 - Darwin

 - Geraldton

 - Hobart

 - Lismore

 - Maitland-Newcastle

 - Melbourne

 - Military Ordinariate

 - Ordinariate

 - Parramatta

 - Perth

 - Port Pirie

 - Rockhampton

 - Sale

 - Sandhurst

 - Sydney

 - Toowoomba

 - Townsville

 - Wagga Wagga

 - Wilcannia-Forbes

 - Wollongong


Scripture readings taken from The Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com.
 
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