Parents: please review these verses with your children from today’s office of Morning Prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours:

Ephesians 4:29-32 Guard against foul talk; let your words be for the improvement of others, as occasion offers, and do good to your listeners, otherwise you will only be grieving the Holy Spirit of God who has marked you with his seal for you to be set free when the day comes. Never have grudgesContinue reading “Parents: please review these verses with your children from today’s office of Morning Prayer in the Liturgy of the Hours:”

Novena to Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows begins today…

And continues through 14 September Novena in Honor of the Dolors of the Blessed VirginSay once a day for nine days, especially starting on 6 September and ending on 14 September, the eve of the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of Mary O most holy and afflicted Virgin! Queen of martyrs! Thou who didst standContinue reading “Novena to Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows begins today…”

Sunday, 9 July: Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Family, Davenport: 10:15 Confessions, 10:40 Rosary, 11:00 Low Mass. Holy Face devotion; Fellowship Meal after Mass St Patrick, Iowa City: 2:10, Confessions, 2:30 Low Mass Why did Christ say: ‘I have compassion on the multitude?’ Because of His mercy and goodness to man, as well as to prove that which He taught on anotherContinue reading “Sunday, 9 July: Sixth Sunday after Pentecost”

June is the Month Catholics Dedicate to the Sacred Heart of Jesus

Have you offered your home yet to the Enthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus? A Parishioner writes: “We are giving our house to Jesus!” That’s how our four year old described it, and that’s what we did when we enthroned our home to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. The Enthronement is a solemn ceremonyContinue reading “June is the Month Catholics Dedicate to the Sacred Heart of Jesus”