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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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PROPER

Those parts of the religious service (i.e., the Mass) which vary according to the feast or liturgical season. (Etym. Latin proprius, one's own, not common with others, special, true, real, genuine.)

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Tuesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time

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Today the Roman Martyrology commemorates Blessed Peter Vigne (1670-1740), a French priest, was beatified on October 3, 2004 by Pope John Paul II and proposed to the universal Church as an example of a tireless missionary and apostle of the Most Holy Sacrament. The Church also commemorates…

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