Category Archives: Mass readings and propers

25 February: The Second Sunday of Lent

Holy Family, Davenport: 9:30 Catechism in the Administration Center, 10:20 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass; after Mass, Holy Face devotion reparations, Fellowship Meal St Patrick, Iowa City: 2:00 Rosary, 2:10 Confessions, 2:30 Low Mass with hymns Religious Goods will be blessed after both Masses today https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Lent2nd.pdf

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 forbids the use of meat, but not of eggs, the products of milk, or condiments made of animal fat.Fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten, e.g.- frogs, clams, etc. The law of Fasting allows only one full mealContinue reading “7:15am Friday, 16 February: Friday after Ash Wednesday”