The Ostende Blog – Fr Christopher Young

Davenport, Holy Family: 11:00am-High Mass and Procession. Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Confessions & Rosary before Mass. Fellowship Meal after Mass.

Iowa City, St Patrick: 2:30pm- Low Mass with hymns. Act of Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Confessions & Rosary before Mass.

Religious goods will be blessed after Mass. Please bring forward before Mass, if possible.

Today you may receive a plenary indulgence by praying the Consecration of the Human Race to the Sacred Heart, going to Confession, and receiving the Eucharist. We beg God to bring all people to Him and to be our King. There will be a Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass, too. 

Note: In the Novus Ordo, this Feast was moved from the last Sunday in October to the last Sunday of the Season after Pentecost, which is the Sunday before Advent Sunday. The effect of this is to interrupt the relationship between the reign of Christ with His Saints, who are commemorated en masse on 1 November, and the necessity of our recognizing His Kingship now, during this “thousand years” of the Church Age. With the Feast moved to the very last Sunday in the Time After Pentecost, it leads one to believe that Christ isn’t King now, and that all persons and nations don’t need to recognize Him as King now — but that He will be recognized as King only at the end of time when He reveals Himself at His Second Advent. In other words, the moving of the Feast symbolically defeats the very purpose of the Feast, which is to not only honor the very fact of His Kingship, but to pray for the conversion of all people and nations to His Church so that souls will be saved and the social order will conform to the moral law.

11:00: Adoration, Rosary, Litany of Mary in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, followed by Confession