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Sunday, 17 December- the Third Sunday in Advent: ‘Gaudete Sunday’

Holy Family, Davenport: 9:30 Catechism- 1315 Pleasant St. – topic: the Baptist; the Missals; 10:20 Confessions; 10:35 Rosary; 11:00 High Mass – sermon topic: the Epistle; after Mass, Bambelli Blessing: creche infant figurines blessing; Holy Face reparations, Fellowship Meal downstairs, ya’all! St Patrick, Iowa City: In the Sacred Heart Chapel this week. 2:00, Rosary; [noContinue reading “Sunday, 17 December- the Third Sunday in Advent: ‘Gaudete Sunday’”

12:05pm, Monday 11 December – St Damasus, pope

11:00 Adoration and confessions https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/1211StDamasusPope2nd.pdf As pope, his lifestyle was simple in contrast to other ecclesiastics of Rome, and he was fierce in his denunciation of Arianism and other heresies. In a troubled and pivotal period of Church history, he stands forth as a zealous defender of the faith who knew when to be progressiveContinue reading “12:05pm, Monday 11 December – St Damasus, pope”

7:15am, Friday 8 December- Obligatory Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Confessions beginning at 6:45. Homily today will be given after the dismissal, so that those who need to leave directly for work, etc. may do so. No adoration or confessions today after Mass – due to School Mass at 8:30. Fr Young, for those unable to make this morning Mass, will be the celebrant ofContinue reading “7:15am, Friday 8 December- Obligatory Feast of the Immaculate Conception of Mary”

12:05pm, Monday 4 December: St Peter Chrysologus

11:00am Adoration and Confessions Saint Peter Chrysologus was a bishop of Ravenna from about 433 until his death in 450. He was born in Imola, Italy in 380 and was baptized, educated, and ordained a deacon by Cornelius, Bishop of Imola. He is known as the “Doctor of Homilies” for the concise but theologically richContinue reading “12:05pm, Monday 4 December: St Peter Chrysologus”