Come, let us adore the Lord, for he is our God.
Year: C(I). Psalm week: 3. Liturgical Colour: Green.
Other saints: Saint Aedan of Ferns (c.550 - 632)
Ireland
He was the son of an Irish tribal chieftain and studied under St Finian and St David. He was the first bishop of Ferns, in Ireland, and founded many churches and monasteries. See the article in
Wikipedia.
About the author of the Second Reading in today's Office of Readings:
Second Reading: John the Serene ( - 553?)
He was a bishop of Naples in the sixth century, but nothing else is known about him.
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).