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Liturgical Calendar Update

- Liturgy

January 27, 2016

Overview for January 27, 2016 to February 10, 2016

Ordinary Time
January
Jan. 27	Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin St. Angela was born in northern Italy. In 1516, she founded the Order of Ursulines, the first teaching order for women approved by the Church. According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the ...	Opt. Mem.
Jan. 28	Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, priest and doctor St. Thomas Aquinas is the Dominican order's greatest glory. He taught philosophy and theology with such genius that he is considered one of the leading Christian thinkers. His innocence, on a par with his genius, earned for him ...	Memorial
Jan. 29	Friday of the Third 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. Francis de Sales. In the Ordinary Rite his feast is celebrated on January 24. Historically today is the feast ...	Weekday
Jan. 30	Saturday of the Third 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. Martina who was a Roman virgin born of an illustrious family. Both of her parents died while she was very young. ...	Weekday
Jan. 31	Fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time There is a shocking turnaround in today's Gospel. The people with whom Jesus grew up were assembled in the Nazareth synagogue. After they heard him read Sacred Scripture and give a one sentence homily "Today this Scripture has ...	Sunday
February
Feb. 1	Monday of the Fourth Week of Ordinary Time; Feast of St. Brigid, Virgin (Ireland) (NZ, Opt. Mem.) Surnamed "the Mary of the Gael," St. Brigid was born at Faughart, near Dundalk. She took the veil in her youth and eventually founded the nunnery of Kildare, the first to be erected on Irish soil, thus becoming the spiritual ...	Weekday
Feb. 2	Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Today the Church celebrates the feast of the Presentation of the Lord which occurs forty days after the birth of Jesus and is also known as Candlemas day, since the blessing and procession of candles is included in today's ...	Feast
Feb. 3	Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; St. Ansgar, bishop St. Blaise enjoyed widespread veneration in the Eastern and Western Churches due to many cures attributed to him. According to tradition, he was Bishop of Sebaste in Armenia and was martyred under Licinius. On this day the ...	Opt. Mem.
Feb. 4	Thursday of the Fourth 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. Andrew who was born in the fourteenth century in Florence, Italy. He fell into bad company; but soon, touched by ...	Weekday
Feb. 5	Memorial of St. Agatha, virgin and martyr St. Agatha died in defense of her purity, in Catania, Sicily, where she was born. After Quintanus, the governor of Sicily, tried in vain to force her to consent to sin, she was imprisoned for a month with an evil woman. He then ...	Memorial
Feb. 6	Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, martyrs Paul Miki, a Japanese Jesuit, and his twenty-five companions were martyred in Nagasaki, Japan. They were the first martyrs of East Asia to be canonized. They were killed simultaneously by being raised on crosses and then stabbed ...	Memorial
Feb. 7	Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time After Jesus had finished speaking, he said to Simon Peter, "Put out into the deep water and lower your nets for a catch!" The Holy Father proposed Jesus' imperative "Put out into the deep water" as the motto of the Church. He ...	Sunday
Feb. 8	Optional Memorials of St. Jerome Emiliani, priest; St. Josephine Bakhita, virgin St. Jerome Emiliani was born in Venice in 1486. He converted to Christianity after a rather dissolute youth, and dedicated himself to the service of the poor, the sick, and abandoned children. He founded a congregation ...	Opt. Mem.
Feb. 9	Monday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time; Fat Tuesday; St. Teilo (Wales) Today the feast of St. Teilo, bishop, is celebrated in Wales. According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria, bishop and doctor, and St. ...	Weekday
Lent Begins:
Feb. 10	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 ...