Category Archives: Instruction

It’s ‘-gesimatide’, ya’ll !

SEASON OF SEPTUAGESIMA DOCTRINAL NOTE. – The Season of Septuagesima, with which the Paschal cycle begins, starts at once on the theme which is to form the subject of the liturgy of Lent and Eastertide – the passage of humanity from the state of decadence and slavery in which it had been placed by sinContinue reading “It’s ‘-gesimatide’, ya’ll !”

1 February- Septuagesima Sunday

Davenport, Holy Family: High Mass, 11:00am. Confessions & Rosary before Mass; Holy Face devotion & Fellowship Meal in Hall after Mass Iowa City, St Patrick: Low Mass with hymns, 2:30pm. Rosary & Confessions before Mass. Potluck after Mass. Today you may bring candles to the sacristy to be blessed tomorrow before Candlemas (11:40am, Monday) YouContinue reading “1 February- Septuagesima Sunday”

Monday, 29 December- Day V in the Octave of Christmas: St Thomas a Becket, martyr

No Adoration or Mass Today  Thomas à Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral on December 29th, 1170, less than a month after he had returned from six years of exile in France, where he had been driven by a long persecution at the hands of King Henry II of England. The murder was followed byContinue reading “Monday, 29 December- Day V in the Octave of Christmas: St Thomas a Becket, martyr”