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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”

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)”

12:05pm, Monday 15 January: St Paul, first hermit, confessor

St. Paul the First Hermit, also known as Paul of Thebes, was an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. He was born in Lower Thebaid, Egypt, at the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the age of twenty-two, he went to the desert toContinue reading “12:05pm, Monday 15 January: St Paul, first hermit, confessor”