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SACKCLOTH

Penitential garb made of a heavy, course-textured material or hair cloth. It is worn next to the skin as a token of sorrow for sin or simply as a form of penance.

Mon13 January
Ordinary Time

Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop and Doctor

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Today the Church returns to Ordinary Time, the Monday of the First Week in Ordinary Time. The Church also celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Hilary of Poitiers (310-367). Hilary was one of the great champions of the Catholic belief in the divinity of Christ. By his preaching, his treatise on the…

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