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Universal Liturgical Calendar

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February 18, 2015

Overview for February 18, 2015 to March 04, 2015

Lent
February
Feb. 18	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 ...	Weekday
Feb. 19	Thursday after Ash Wednesday 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 ...	Weekday
Feb. 20	Friday after Ash Wednesday; 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	First Sunday of Lent The scene of the temptation, which opens the public life of Jesus, declares in the Gospels in a very forceful manner the great change in our lives that He introduces into the world by His work of redemption. Where Adam fell, ...	Sunday
Feb. 23	Memorial of St. Polycarp of Smyrna, bishop and martyr St. Polycarp of Smyrna, was converted to Christianity by St. John the Evangelist. He was a disciple of the apostles and friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch. He was ordained bishop of Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey) and was about ...	Memorial
Feb. 24	Tuesday of the First Week of Lent 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 ...	Weekday
Feb. 25	Wednesday of the First Week of Lent 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 ...	Weekday
Feb. 26	Thursday of the First Week of Lent Historically today is the feast of St. Porphyrius, a wealthy Greek who became a hermit first in the desert of Skete in Egypt and then in Palestine on the banks of the Jordan. Much against his will he was raised to the see of ...	Weekday
Feb. 27	Friday of the First Week of Lent According to the 1962 Missal of St. John XXIII the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, today is the feast of St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows who was born in Assisi on March 1, 1838, the eleventh child of Sante Possenti and ...	Weekday
Feb. 28	Saturday of the First Week of Lent Historically today is the feast of St. Hilary, pope from 461 to 468 and guardian of Church unity and St. Romanus of Condat who founded the abbeys of Condat and Leuconne, and the convent of La Beaume, among others. Today is an ...	Weekday
March
Mar. 1	Second Sunday of Lent Between Moses and Elias Jesus shows forth His divine glory, thus foreshadowing His resurrection. He is the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end of all things. Today's Mass places before us the transfigured Lord and the ...	Sunday
Mar. 2	Monday of the Second Week of Lent Historically today is the feast of Blessed Charles the Good, the Danish prince, son of the holy king Canuto IV, gained the crown of the Count of Flanders from his maternal lineage. After an initial brief interval, his reign was ...	Weekday
Mar. 3	Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, virgin (USA) Today the dioceses of the United States celebrate the optional memorial of St. Katharine Drexel. Born into a wealthy Philadelphia family, Katharine took an avid interest in the material and spiritual well-being of African and ...	Opt. Mem.
Mar. 4	Optional Memorial of St. Casimir of Poland Today is the feast of St. Casimir who was born in 1458 and was the son of the King of Poland. At an early age he saw through the superficiality and corruption of court life. Throughout his short life—he died of consumption at ...