Friday 7 February 2025 (other days)
Friday of week 4 in Ordinary Time
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Year: C(I). Psalm week: 4. Liturgical Colour: Green.
Other saints: Saint Mel
Ireland
Saint Mel or Moel died in 488. He is said to have been a Briton who came to Ireland with Saint Patrick, his uncle, with whom he worked until he was ordained in Ardagh. He is one of the earliest Irish saints and gave the religious veil to Saint Brigid. See the article in Wikipedia.
Other saints: The Five Wounds of Christ
Portugal
Legend states that before the Battle of Ourique in 1139, Christ appeared to D. Afonso Henriques, promising victory over the Moors and instructing him to use the Five Wounds on the nation’s coat of arms. The Five Wounds are a powerful, enduring symbol of Portuguese national, religious, and cultural history.
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).
