7:15am, 23 February – Ember Friday of Lent

Adoration and confessions to follow https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Lent1stFriday_0223.pdf About Embertide: Four times a year, the Church sets aside three days to focus on God through His marvelous creation. These quarterly periods take place around the beginnings of the four natural seasons. Embertides are spent fasting and partially abstaining (voluntary since the new Code of Canon Law) inContinue reading “7:15am, 23 February – Ember Friday of Lent”

7:15am Friday, 16 February: Friday after Ash Wednesday

Adoration and Confessions after Mass 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 midnightContinue reading “7:15am Friday, 16 February: Friday after Ash Wednesday”

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)”