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Twenty Fourth Sunday after Pentecost- Resumed 6th Sunday after Pentecost propers: the penultimate Sunday of the liturgical year

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Pentecost98th2ndLast.pdf Davenport, Holy Family: 9:30 Catechism, Adminstrative Center; Confessions 10:20, Rosary, 10:35, High TLM Mass 11:00; Holy Face devotion for reparations, Fellowship Meal downstairs after Mass Iowa City, St Patrick: 2:15 Rosary and Confessions, 2:30 Low Mass; Potluck meal afterwards in Social Hall

7:15am, Friday 17 November: St Gregory the Wonderworker

Adoration and Confessions following Mass Saint Gregory the Wonderworker, also known as Gregory Thaumaturgus or Gregory of Neocaesarea, was a Christian bishop of the 3rd century. He was born in Neocaesarea, northern Asia Minor, into a prominent pagan family. After his elementary education, he and his brother went to Beirut to study law. His miracles,Continue reading “7:15am, Friday 17 November: St Gregory the Wonderworker”

11 November- Decoration Day/ Veterans Day

On November 7th, 1920, in strictest secrecy, four unidentified British bodies were exhumed from temporary battlefield cemeteries at Ypres, Arras, the Asine and the Somme. None of the soldiers who did the digging were told why. The bodies were taken by field ambulance to GHQ at St-Pol-Sur-Ter Noise. Once there, the bodies were draped withContinue reading “11 November- Decoration Day/ Veterans Day”