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Please volunteer to support St Alphonsus parish Fish Fry season: Teens and Adults are really needed

Where the Chaplaincy has an office, meets and has liturgies. Proceeds of the Fish Fry cover buildings insurance and maintenance costs. Contact Ron Patton (563) 210-9971 to schedule your assistance as a cook, if you are an adult- work starts at 10:00am on Fridays – or the parish office (563) 322-0987 to speak with VickieContinue reading “Please volunteer to support St Alphonsus parish Fish Fry season: Teens and Adults are really needed”

It’s ‘-gesimatide’, ya’ll !

SEASON OF SEPTUAGESIMA DOCTRINAL NOTE. – The Season of Septuagesima, with which the Paschal cycle begins, starts at once on the theme which is to form the subject of the liturgy of Lent and Eastertide – the passage of humanity from the state of decadence and slavery in which it had been placed by sinContinue reading “It’s ‘-gesimatide’, ya’ll !”

1 February- Septuagesima Sunday

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) YouContinue reading “1 February- Septuagesima Sunday”

12:05pm, Monday 2 February- Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary – Candlemas

The blessing and distribution of Candles will take place before Mass, beginning at 11:40am. Then, we process indoors. You may bring candles to be blessed for home use. Potluck lunch afterwards. https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0202Purification.pdf https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/02/a-comparison-of-old-and-new-blessing-of.html?m=1