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Lent: February 26th
Ash Wednesday
The time has now come in the Church year for the solemn observance of the great central act of history, the redemption of the human race by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. In the Roman Rite, the beginning of the forty days of penance is... More
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Ordinary Time: February 25th
Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
Historically today is the feast of St. Walburga, sister of Sts. Willibald and Winebald. She became a nun at Wimborne in Dorset under St. Tatta and followed St. Lioba to Germany at the invitation of St. Boniface. She died abbess of... More
Ordinary Time: February 24th
Monday of the Seventh Week of Ordinary Time
But Jesus told them, "Because of the hardness of your hearts he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, 'God made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother (and be joined to his... More
Ordinary Time: February 23rd
Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you, offer no resistance to one who is evil. When someone strikes you on your right cheek, turn the other one as well.... More
Ordinary Time: February 22nd
Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, apostle
This feast brings to mind the mission of teacher and pastor conferred by Christ on Peter, and continued in an unbroken line down to the present Pope. We celebrate the unity of the Church, founded upon the Apostle, and renew our assent to... More
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Ordinary Time: February 21st
Friday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, bishop and doctor
St. Peter Damian, a man of vehemence in all his actions who was brought up in the hard school of poverty, found that he had the vocation of a reformer. He exercised it in the first place against himself as one of the hermits of... More
Ordinary Time: February 20th
Thursday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time; Sts. Francisco & Jacinta Marto (Portugal)
Franciso and Jacinta Marto were officially declared saints of the Catholic Church by Pope Francis on May 13, 2017, in Fatima, Portugal. The brother and sister who tended to their families’ sheep with their cousin Lucia Santo in the fields... More
Ordinary Time: February 19th
Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
Historically today is the feast of St. Conrad of Piacenza, a friar and hermit celebrated for piety and miraculous cures at Noto in Sicily and St. Gabinus, brother of Pope St. Caius, father of St. Susanna, who was ordained in his old... More
Ordinary Time: February 18th
Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time
According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Simeon, bishop and martyr. He was successor to the apostle St. James in the See of Jerusalem and was arrested and probably... More
Ordinary Time: February 17th
Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of Seven Founders of the Order of Servites
Today the liturgy honors seven noble Florentines who in the thirteenth century, at a time when Florence and all Italy was torn by civil strife, banded together to found, not far from Florence on Monte Senario, the Order of Servites of the... More
Ordinary Time: February 16th
Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part... More
