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Sunday, 24 September – the 17th Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Family, Davenport: 9:30 Catechism in the Parish Office bldg, 10:15 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass. Holy Face devotion. Fellowship meal in the Hall. St Patrick, Iowa City: 2:20 Confessions, 2:25 Rosary, 2:45 Low Mass. Religious goods blessed this week at both Masses

7:15, Friday 22 October – Ember Friday in September

Commemoration of St Thomas of Villanova Adoration and Confessions following Mass

The St Benedict Medal – excellent for health and spiritual protection – deciphered

I will bless religious items such as the Benedict Jubilee Medal and Rosaries following Mass this Sunday. Water, salt, oil, candles etc. Please bring them, unwrapped, to the sacristy before or just after Mass – or ask an altar boy to do so – who will inform you when your items are ready to beContinue reading “The St Benedict Medal – excellent for health and spiritual protection – deciphered”

Sunday, 17 September- 16th Sunday after Pentecost

Holy Family, Davenport: Catechism 9:30, Confessions 10:15, High Mass 11:00; Holy Face Devotion after Mass in the church, Fellowship Meal downstairs in the Hall. St Patrick, Iowa City: Confessions, 2:20, Mass 2:45; potluck afterwards in the Hall.

7:15 am, Friday 8 September: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Litany of Mary during Adoration, Confessions to follow Commemorating the Parents of the Immaculate Conception Saints Anne and Joachim, the parents of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings. St. Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany and Canada and of women in labour. As the grandparents of Jesus,Continue reading “7:15 am, Friday 8 September: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary”

September is Dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows

Those seven sorrows are: The Circumcision and Prophecy of SimeonThe Flight into EgyptThe Loss of Jesus in the TempleThe Meeting of Jesus and Mary on the Way of the CrossThe CrucifixionThe Taking Down of the Body of Jesus from the CrossJesus is laid in the TombThese seven sorrows are often represented in art by aContinue reading “September is Dedicated to Our Lady of Sorrows”

12:05 pm, Monday 28 August: St Augustine – Doctor of the Church

11:00- Adoration and Confessions Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

Devotion to the Holy Face and Our Lady of Sorrows at Holy Family and St Alphonsus parishes 13 – 15 September

Please tell others and attend as much of this three day event as possible