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Current Church Laws Concerning Fasting and Abstinence
The law of Abstinence binds all Catholics, beginning on the day after their 14th birthday.(formerly it was beginning the day after their 7th birthday) The law of Fasting binds all adults in the United States, beginning on their 18th birthday until the midnight whichcompletes their 59th birthday. The law of Abstinence forbids the use ofContinue reading “Current Church Laws Concerning Fasting and Abstinence”
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)”
