5:30pm, Friday 24 February-Stations of the Cross

Venerate. It’s Christ we adore; Christ and only Christ: ‘We adore you, and we bless you, because by your Holy Cross you have redeemed the world.’
We also – each Sunday after Mass – adore prayerfully, with the intention of making reparations, the Holy Face of Jesus, brought before the faithful’s eyes, in an icon of the sacred impression made of his face, on the day of His passion and death.

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

Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was transfigured before them. And His face did shine like the sun, and his garments became white as snow.

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) in penance and with the intentions of thanking God for the gifts He gives us in nature and beseeching Him for the discipline to use them in moderation. The fasts, known as “Jejunia quatuor temporum,” or “the fast of the four seasons,” are rooted in Old Testament practices of fasting four times a year.

These four times are each kept on a successive Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday and are known as “Ember Days,” or Quatuor Tempora, in Latin. The first of these four times comes in Winter, after the the Feast of St. Lucy; the second comes in Spring, the week after Ash Wednesday; the third comes in Summer, after Pentecost Sunday; and the last comes in Autumn, after Holy Cross Day.

Ember Days are days favored for priestly ordinations, prayer for priests, first Communions, almsgiving and other penitential and charitable acts, and prayer for the souls in Purgatory. Note that medieval lore says that during Embertides, the souls in Purgatory are sometimes allowed to appear visibly to those on earth who pray for them. A good practice on these days is to light a candle on your family altar and pray for all of your loved ones who’ve died.

Source: https://www.fisheaters.com/emberdays.html

Sunday, 18 February: First Sunday of Lent

Holy Family, Davenport: 9:30 Catechism, 10:15 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass. Holy Face devotion reparations; Fellowship Meal after Mass

St Patrick, Iowa City: Rosary 2:05, Confessions 2:10, Low Mass with hymns 2:30. Catechism after Mass.

“At that time Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert, to be tempted by the Devil. And when he had fasted forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.”
https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Lent1st.pdf

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

Adoration and Confessions after Mass

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/LentAshFriday.pdf

Current Church Laws Concerning Fasting and Abstinence

  1. 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)
  2. The law of Fasting binds all adults in the United States, beginning on their 18th birthday until the midnight which
    completes their 59th birthday.

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 meal a day, but does not prohibit taking some food in the morning and evening, observing – as far as quantity and quality are concerned – approved local custom. Eating between meals is not permitted, but liquids, including milk and fruit juices, are allowed.

In the United States:
Abstinence is strictly binding on all Fridays of Lent.
Fasting and abstinence are obligatory on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday.
Abstinence on all Fridays, though not obligatory under pain of sin, is “especially recommended.”
Fasting on all weekdays of Lent, though not obligatory under pain of sin, is “strongly recommended.”