Sacred Calendar
The Roman year ordered for memory, penance, feasts, saints, and the daily pilgrimage of the faithful.
Calendar standard
Pre-1955 Roman usage
The calendar follows the universal Roman year under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X, with the Roman Martyrology preserved as a distinct daily witness.
The day is presented for prayer, recollection, study, and perseverance in the City.
Daily observance
Today in the City of God
The Church keeps this day in holy time. The Pilgrim's Companion gathers the feast, daily quote, Martyrology, meditation, prayer, and related chapters into one daily path through the City.
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Daily observance
Feria in Time after Pentecost
Thursday, October 22, 2026
Season: Time after Pentecost
The day is set within the Roman year so its feast, Martyrology, daily quote, prayer, and reading path may be received together without blurring their proper sources.
Today's pilgrimage
Feria in Time after Pentecost
Rank: Feria
Color: green
Quote for the day
Pope St. Leo the Great
“A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added nor anything taken away.”
Roman Martyrology
Roman Martyrology - October 22
At Jerusalem, the blessed bishop Mark, a celebrated and learned man, who was the first Gentile that governed the chuch of Jerusalem. His brief episcopate was rewarded by the palm of martyrdom, under the emperor Antoninus. — At Adrianople, in Thrace, the birthday of the holy martyrs Philip, bishop, Severus, priest, Eusebius, and Hermes, who, after being imprisoned and scourged, were burned alive, in the time of Julian the Apostate. — Also, the holy martyrs Alexander, bishop, Heracilus, soldier, and their companions. — At Fermo, in the Marches, St. Philip, bishop and martyr. — At Huesca, in Spain, the holy virgins Nunilo and Alodia, sisters, who endured martyrdom by being condemned to capital punishment by the Saracens for the confession of the faith. — At Cologne, St. Cordula, one of the companions of St. Ursula, who, being terrified at the torments and slaughter of the other virgins, hid herself, but soon repenting, came forward the next day, and last of all received the crown of martyrdom. — At Hierapolis, in Phrygia, St. Abercius, bishop, who flourished under the emperor Marcus Antoninus. — At Rouen, St. Melanius, bishop, who was ordained by pope St. Stephen, and sent thither to preach the Gospel. — In Tuscany, St. Donatus, of Scotland, bishop of Fiesoli. — At Verona, St. Verecundus, bishop and confessor. — At Jerusalem, St. Mary Salome, who, as we read in the Gospel, piously attended to the burial of our Lord.
Meditation
The Church Made Public
Pentecost teaches that the Holy Ghost does not create private religious enthusiasm detached from doctrine, worship, and authority. He gathers, sends, teaches, and strengthens the visible Church. The remnant must therefore seek fire without disorder and zeal without novelty.
Related paths
Walk the day through the City.
Today's chapters
Read with the feast.
- Sacramental Fidelity Under Pressure
- The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Four Ends of Worship
- John 6: The Bread of Life, Eucharistic Realism, and the Blood of the New Covenant
- The Apostolicity of the Church: Continuity of Faith, Mission, and Authority
- Mary as Image of the Church in Fidelity and Sorrow
Prayer
The day should become prayer.
O Lord, give me holy fear before Thy altar. Preserve me from casualness, invention, and every worship that weakens faith in Thy sacrifice.
Thought for the pilgrim
False worship wounds souls because worship forms belief.
Practice
The day should become obedience.
Make one act of reverence for the Holy Sacrifice and pray for souls misled by false worship.
Source notes
Universal Roman Calendar under the rubrics of Pope St. Pius X
Fasting and abstinence according to the laws observed in 1952
Daily quotations and pilgrimage excerpts should come from Scripture, Fathers, Doctors, saints, traditional popes before 1958, traditional catechisms, approved devotional works, or received liturgical texts.
The Roman Martyrology, Baltimore, 1916, published by John Murphy Company; the local 1916 text is displayed and traceable to its source lines.
- St. Andrew Daily Missal, Division of the Ecclesiastical Year, p. x: Lent has a proper Mass for each feria; other ferias without a proper Mass use the Mass of the Sunday.
- This is a temporal fallback only; it does not assert a saint, a fast, or an unentered proper Mass.