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Friday, October 16
Friday, October 16

Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time · 2026

A Ferial weekday in Ordinary Time. No feast or memorial is kept today — only the steady rhythm of the week, and the Mass given for the weekday.

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The feast of the day

No feast is kept today

An ordinary day in Ordinary Time

Most days of the year keep no feast or memorial — and that is not a gap. The Church simply prays the Mass of the weekday and keeps walking through the season. A good day to carry one quiet intention, and to let prayer be unhurried.

The saint of the day

Meet St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

St. Margaret Mary Alacoque
Saint of the day · Feast Oct 16
St. Margaret Mary Alacoque

Saint · France · 17th century

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Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Visitation nun whose mystical visions in the 1670s spread worldwide devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. By tradition, Christ appeared to her twelve times, sharing what are now called the Twelve Promises associated with th

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The season

Ordinary Time

We are in the Twenty-eighth Week of Ordinary Time — the Church wears green.

The long, green stretch between the great seasons — the everyday of faith, where most of the Christian life is actually lived. Today keeps no feast — just the ordinary, unhurried rhythm of the week.

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