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Sunday, 4 February: Sexagesima Sunday

Holy Family, Davenport: 9:30 Catechism- Administrative Center, 10:20 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass; afterwards Holy Face devotion, overflow Confessions; Fellowship Meal in Hall downstairs. St Patrick, Iowa City: 2:00pm Rosary, 2:10 Confessions, 2:30 Low Mass with hymns

7:15am, Friday 2 February- Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary – ‘Candlemas’

Candlemas ritual will take place after Mass this year, followed by the Litany of Loreto https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0202PurificationAnteMissam.pdf

Should our children be shielded from Social Media? – and given real social community instead, by our efforts? Should ‘endless scrolling’, ‘doom scrolling’ be ‘a habit to drop’ on your or my ‘Lenten Gameplan’?

(The ‘worksheet’ I referred to in my sermon yesterday, found in a separate post above) Here’s what an FSSP Pastor thinks, and shared with his people, yesterday:

12:05pm, 29 January: St Francis DeSales, doctor of the Church

Adoration and Rosary at 11:00

A pre-Lent ‘Game Plan’ Worksheet: your action plan already for when Ash Wednesday comes (Feb 14)

A Pre-Lent ‘Game Plan’ Worksheet for my action plan for when Ash Wednesday comes: ________Habit or Vice to ‘give up’… and / or ________Habit or Virtue to ‘take on’. e.g. Morning offering – or nightly examen ________Devotion or Liturgical activity to ‘make time for’ or attend. e.g. Stations ________Service, sacrifice or mortification to offer to God. e.g. serve atContinue reading “A pre-Lent ‘Game Plan’ Worksheet: your action plan already for when Ash Wednesday comes (Feb 14)”

Sunday, 28 January: Septuagesima Sunday

Davenport, Holy Family: Catechism 9:30, Confessions 10:20, Rosary 10:35, High Mass 11:00; Holy Face reparation devotion; Fellowship Meal after Mass. Religious items (except candles) blessed after Mass. Iowa City, St Patrick: Rosary 2:00pm, Confessions, 2:10, Low Mass with hymns 2:30, Potluck in Social Hall after Mass. Religious items blessed after Mass. The 17-day period beginningContinue reading “Sunday, 28 January: Septuagesima Sunday”

7:15am, Friday 26 January: St Polycarp

Adoration and confessions immediately following

This Sunday – Religious Items blessing Sunday (every last Sunday of the Month)

Go ahead and bring any candles you want blessed on the following Friday, 2 February, for Candlemas – if you want to. (Or on that Friday morning, 15 minutes before the 7:15am Mass) But I will not bless them until 2 February. Thanks. And remember: Please unwrap or take out of their packaging any religiousContinue reading “This Sunday – Religious Items blessing Sunday (every last Sunday of the Month)”

12:05 Monday, 22 January: Ss Vincent & Anastasius , martyrs

Adoration and rosary precedes at 11:00

21 January: Third Sunday after Epiphany – UPDATE- Davenport YES – but No Iowa City 2:30 Mass today. Father has had ‘flu.

Davenport, Holy Family: No Catechism, 10:25 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass; Holy Face reparations devotion, Fellowship Meal, after Mass Iowa City, St Patrick: CANCELED GO TO C R AT 8:00 am instead.