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Liturgical Calendar Update

- Liturgy

February 8, 2017

Overview for February 08, 2017 to February 22, 2017

Ordinary Time
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	Thursday of the Fifth Week of Ordinary Time; 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
Feb. 10	Memorial of St. Scholastica, virgin St. Scholastica was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the Patriarch of Western monasticism. She was born in Umbria, Italy, about 480. Under Benedict's direction, Scholastica founded a community of nuns near the great Benedictine ...	Memorial
Feb. 11	Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes Today marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858 to fourteen-year-old Marie Bernade (St. Bernadette) Soubirous. Between February 11 and July 16, 1858, the Blessed Virgin appeared eighteen times, and showed ...	Opt. Mem.
Feb. 12	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 ...	Sunday
Feb. 13	Monday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time Historically today is the feast of St. Catherine de Ricci a native of Florence, Italy, who became a Dominican tertiary in 1535 and eventually filled the offices of novice-mistress and prioress. She was famous for her ecstasies ...	Weekday
Feb. 14	Memorial of Sts. Cyril, monk and St. Methodius, bishop St. Cyril was a priest and a philosopher and accompanied his brother St. Methodius to Moravia to preach the Gospel. They both perfected a Slavonic alphabet which is now known as the Cyrillic alphabet and translated the liturgy ...	Memorial
Feb. 15	St. Claude de la Colombiere, priest (some places) The Jesuit Priest St. Claude de la Colombière was the first to believe in the mystical revelations of the Sacred Heart given to St. Margaret Mary in Paray le Monial Convent, France. Thanks to his support, St. Margaret Mary’s ...	Weekday
Feb. 16	Thursday of the Sixth Week of Ordinary Time Historically today is the feast of St. Juliana, a Christian virgin of Cumae, Italy, martyred for the faith when she refused to marry a Roman prefect. She suffered terrible ordeals and was finally beheaded. One tradition reports ...	Weekday
Feb. 17	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 ...	Opt. Mem.
Feb. 18	Saturday 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 ...	Weekday
Feb. 19	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 ...	Sunday
Feb. 20	Bls. Francisco & Jacinta Marto (Portugal) This feast can only be celebrated publicly in Portugal at the moment, but assuming Bl. Francisco and Jacinta Marto are eventually canonized, it will be then be possible to celebrate it universally. It is, however, possible to ...	Weekday
Feb. 21	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 ...	Opt. Mem.
Feb. 22	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 ...	Feast

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