Davenport, Holy Family: High Mass, 11:00am. Confessions & Rosary before Mass; Holy Face devotion & Fellowship Meal in Hall after Mass
Iowa City, St Patrick: Low Mass with hymns, 2:30pm. Rosary & Confessions before Mass. Potluck after Mass.
Today you may bring candles to the sacristy to be blessed tomorrow before Candlemas (11:40am, Monday) You may collect them next Sunday, if you cannot come to Dav on 2 Feb.
Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden after eating the forbidden fruit, the knowledge of Good and Evil, as recorded in Genesis 3:23.
God expelled them to prevent them from also
reaching out and eating from the Tree of Life, v.22, which would have allowed them to live forever in their fallen, sinful state.
This act was not merely punishment but a protective measure to ensure that humanity would not eternally exist in a condition separated from God.
Man in his wretchedness, enchained by death, impiores salvation, for a fery sword forbids his entry into paradise, the Lord’s vineyard, as a result of his first sin and the Serpent’s treachery. Now is the time of labour and suffering, penance and prayer. “Lord, restore us to heaven!”
The Ostende Blog - Fr Christopher Young 