7:15am, Friday 31 October- Vigil Mass of All Saints

Allhallowtide begins- the Octave of All Saints

8:00am, Adoration & Confessions


The Church Militant and the Church Triumphant, fresco by Andrea da Firenze in Santa Maria Novella, c. 1365

Allhallowtide, Hallowtide, Allsaintstide, or the Hallowmas season is the Western Christian season encompassing the triduum of All Saints’ Eve (Halloween), All Saints’ Day (All Hallows’) and All Souls’ Day. The period begins on 31 October annually.Allhallowtide is a “time to remember the dead, including martyrs, saints, and all faithful departed Christians.” The present date of Hallowmas (All Saints’ Day) and thus also of its vigil (Hallowe’en) was established for Rome perhaps by Pope Gregory III (731–741) and was made of obligation throughout the Frankish Empire by Louis the Pious in 835. Elsewhere, other dates were observed even later, with the date in Ireland being 20 April. In the early 11th century, the modern date of All Souls’ Day was popularized, after Abbot Odilo established it as a day for the monks of Cluny and associated monasteries to pray for the dead.

Friday, 31 October, Saturday, 1 November & Sunday, 2 November

7:15am, Friday: Mass of All Hallows Eve. Adoration, Rosary & Confessions beginning at 8:00am. (Davenport, Holy Family)

10:00am, Saturday: Mass of All Saints Day. Confessions & Rosary begin at 9:30am. Potluck brunch to follow. Children may wear costumes. (Holy Family)

9:30am, Sunday: First Mass of All Souls Day. Sacred Heart Cemetery Chapel at Genesis West Hospital. Indulgenced prayers for a cemetery follow; Procession to Holy Family church.

11:00am, Sunday: Second Mass of All Souls Day. High Mass. Confessions & Rosary before Mass. Holy Face devotion and Fellowship Meal after Mass. (Holy Family)

2:30pm, Sunday: Third Mass of All Souls Day. Low Mass with hymns. Rosary & Confessions before Mass. Potluck after Mass. (Iowa City, St Patrick)

Monday, 3 November: Mass is cancelled- priests mtg.

Sunday, 26 October- Christ the King

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.

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

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.

19 October- 19th Sunday after Pentecost

Davenport, Holy Family: High Mass, 11:00am. Confessions & Rosary before Mass. Holy Face devotion & Fellowship Meal after Mass

Iowa City, St Patrick: Mass in canceled this week- Bp Walsh is offering Mass for couples celebrating their 50th anniversary (at 2:00). The TLM will return next week.

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/Pentecost19th_WMS.pdf