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”

Sunday 11 June: Feast of Corpus Christi (external solemnity)

Davenport, Holy Family: 9:30 Catechism, 10:15 Confessions, 10:35 Rosary, 11:00 High Mass, procession; Fellowship meal to follow Iowa City, St Patrick: 2:10 Confessions, 2:30 Low Mass with hymns. π—–π—Όπ—Ώπ—½π˜‚π˜€ π—–π—΅π—Ώπ—Άπ˜€π˜π—Ά In 1263 a German priest, Peter of Prague, stopped at Bolsena while on a pilgrimage to Rome. He is described as being a pious priest,Continue reading “Sunday 11 June: Feast of Corpus Christi (external solemnity)”

We have now embarked upon pre-Lent

https://sensusfidelium.com/the-liturgical-year-dom-prosper-gueranger/season-of-septuagesima/mystery-of-septuagesima/ Gueranger: It is evident that the Christian, who would spend Septuagesima according to the spirit of the Church, must make war upon that false security, that self-satisfaction, which are so common to effeminate and tepid souls, and produce spiritual barrenness. Met. Antony Bloom: “God can save the sinner you are, but not the saintContinue reading “We have now embarked upon pre-Lent”