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 at Fish Fry

________Biblical, spiritual, or ‘life of a Saint’ reading I could do. e.g. The Book Proverbs

________Other activity or event pleasing to God I could focus on,                       

              instead of myself, for my eternal soul – or instead of this world,

              which is temporal and finite. e.g. Almsgiving

_________________________________ Name        ________________________________ Signed

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Sunday, 28 January: Septuagesima Sunday

Davenport, Holy Family: Catechism 9:30, Confessions 10:20, Rosary 10:35, High Mass 11:00; Holy Face reparation devotion; Fellowship Meal after Mass. Religious items (except candles) blessed after Mass.

Iowa City, St Patrick: Rosary 2:00pm, Confessions, 2:10, Low Mass with hymns 2:30, Potluck in Social Hall after Mass. Religious items blessed after Mass.

The 17-day period beginning on Septuagesima Sunday is intended to be observed as a preparation for the season of Lent, which is itself a period of spiritual preparation for Easter. The “Alleluia” ceases to be said during the liturgy, and the Gloria in excelsis is not used. Likewise, violet vestments are worn, except on feasts, from Septuagesima Sunday until Holy Thursday.
O GOOD JESUS, according to Thy great mercy, have mercy on me.

O most merciful Jesus, by that Precious Blood which Thou didst willto shed for sinners, I beseech Thee to wash away all mine iniquities and to look graciously upon me, a poor and unworthy sinner, as I call upon Thy Holy Name. Therefore, O Jesus, do Thou save me for Thy Holy Name’s sake.

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

This Sunday – Religious Items blessing Sunday (every last Sunday of the Month)

Go ahead and bring any candles you want blessed on the following Friday, 2 February, for Candlemas – if you want to. (Or on that Friday morning, 15 minutes before the 7:15am Mass) But I will not bless them until 2 February. Thanks.

And remember:

https://ambrosiancandles.com/

Please unwrap or take out of their packaging any religious items before dropping off.

Please open candle boxes, unwrap at least one so some holy water can hit them

https://religioussupply.com/

21 January: Third Sunday after Epiphany – UPDATE- Davenport YES – but No Iowa City 2:30 Mass today. Father has had ‘flu.

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Epiphany3rd.pdf

Davenport, Holy Family: No Catechism, 10:25 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass; Holy Face reparations devotion, Fellowship Meal, after Mass

Iowa City, St Patrick: CANCELED GO TO C R AT 8:00 am instead.

12:05pm, Monday 15 January: St Paul, first hermit, confessor

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0115StPaul1stHermitConfessor.pdf

St. Paul the First Hermit, also known as Paul of Thebes, was an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. He was born in Lower Thebaid, Egypt, at the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of Christians under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the age of twenty-two, he went to the desert to circumvent a planned effort by his brother in law to report him to authorities as a Christian and thereby gain control of his property. Paul soon found that the eremitical life was much to his personal taste, and so he remained in a desert cave for the rest of his reportedly very long life.0 He died at the reputed age of 113 and is considered the first Christian hermit by St. Jerome.1 He is also the patron saint of the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Pablo and titular of the Cathedral of the said Diocese in San Pablo, Laguna, Philippines. The Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit was founded in Hungary in his honour in the 13th century.

Novena for Our Lady’s espousal begins today

https://www.amm.org/prayers/marriedcouples.aspx?donor=034407395&emailhld=kluvdogette@gmail.com&emlcode=3AO4&emldnrtype=R
I will again bless after Mass next week pray for and bless any married couples – or engaged persons – who were not able to be present today at Holy Family – just ask, please… and those who wish, at St Pat’s as well

About the Association of the Miraculous Medal: https://www.amm.org/AboutAMM/Our%20Mission.aspx

14 January: Second Sunday after Epiphany – UPDATE #3

Davenport, Holy Family: NO Catechism, 10:20 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 Low Mass. Holy Face devotion reparations; Fellowship Meal downstairs after Mass?

Iowa City, St Patrick: – In consultation with Fr Troy, Pastor of St Patrick’s, and in view of the inadvisability of traveling on I80 due to drifting snow conditions, high winds and extreme temperatures- other highways leading to St Patrick’s still unopened, I have decided to cancel tomorrow’s 2:30 TLM. Please forward this message to others who might be attending. And stay safe by staying home.

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Epiphany2nd.pdf