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Prayers & Devotions

February 2010
Year C - Weekdays II

Holy Father's Intentions

Scholars
General:  For all scholars and intellectuals, that by means of sincere search for the truth they may arrive at an understanding of the one true God.

The Church’s Missionary Identity
Missionary:  That the Church, aware of its own missionary identity, may strive to follow Christ faithfully and to proclaim His Gospel to all peoples.

Lenten Season

1

2 Sm 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13
Psalm 3:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Mk 5:1-20

Green

 2 The Presentation of the Lord

Mal 3:1-4
Heb 2:14-18
Lk 2:22-40 or 2:22-32

White

 3 Saint Blase*,
St Ansgar**

2 Sm 24:2, 9-17
Psalm 32: 1-2, 5,6,7
Mk 6:1-6

Green/*Red/
**White

 4

1 Kgs 2:1-4, 10-12
1 Chr 29:10, 11ab, 11d-12a, 12bcd
Mk 6:7-13

Green

 5 Saint Agatha

Sir 47:2-11
Psalm 18:31, 47 and 50, 51
Mk 6:14-29

First Friday
Abstinence

Red

 6 Saint Paul Miki & companions

1 Kgs 3:4-13
Psalm 119: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Mk 6:30-34

Red
7 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Is 6:1-2a, 3-8
Psalm 138: 1-2, 2-3, 4-5, 7-8
1 Cor 15:1-11 or 1 Cor 15:3-8, 11
Lk 5:1-11

[Blessed Pius IX, Pope*]

Green

 8 Saint Jerome Emiliani,
Saint Josephine Bakhita

1 Kgs 8:1-7, 9-13
Psalm 132:6-7, 8-10
Mk 6:53-56

Green

 9

1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30
Psalm 84:3, 4, 5 and 10, 11
Mk 7:1-13

Green

 10 Saint Scholastica

1 Kgs 10:1-10
Psalm 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40
Mk 7:14-23

White

 11 Our Lady of Lourdes* -- Rosary page

1 Kgs 11:4-13
Psalm 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 and 40
Mk 7:24-30

Green/*White

 12

1 Kgs 11:29-32, 12:19
Psalm 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15
Mk 7:31-37

Abstinence

Green

 13 BVM

1 Kgs 12;26-32;13:33-34
Psalm 106:6-7ab, 19-20, 21-22
Mk 8:1-10

Green/*White
14 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Saint Valentine's Day

Jeremiah 17:5-8
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4, and 6
1 Cor 15:12, 16-20
Lk 6:17, 20-26

Saint Cyril & Saint Methodius

Green

 15

Jas 1:1-11
Psalm 119:67, 68, 71, 72, 75, 76
Mk 8:11-13

Green

 16 Mardi Gras

Jas 1:12-18
Psalm 94:12-13a, 14-15, 18-19
Mk 8:14-21

Green

 17 Ash Wednesday

Jl 2:12-18
Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 12-13, 14 and 17
2 Cor 5:20-6:2
Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

Fasting and Abstinence

[The Seven Founders of the Order of Servites]

Violet

 18

Dt 30:15-20
Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6
Lk 9:22-25

Violet

 19

Is 58:1-9a
Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6a, 18-19
Mt 9:14-15

Abstinence

Violet

 20

Is 58:9b-14
Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6
Lk 5:27-32

Violet
21 1st Sunday of Lent

Dt 26:4-10
Psalm 91:1-2, 10-11, 12-13, 14-15
Rom 10:8-13
Lk 4:1-13

[Saint Peter Damian]

Violet

 22 The Chair of Saint Peter

1 Pt 5:1-4
Psalm 23:1-3a, 4, 5, 6
Mt 16:13-19

White

 23 Saint Polycarp

Is 55:10-11
Psalm 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19
Mt 6:7-15

Violet

 24

Jon 3:1-10
Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19
Lk 11:29-32

Violet

 25

Est C:12, 14-16, 23-25
Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8
Mt 7:7-12

Violet

 26

Ez 18:21-28
Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8
Mt 5:20-26

Abstinence

Violet

 27 Saint Anne Line (England)

Dt 26:16-19
Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8
Mt 5:43-48

Violet
28 2nd Sunday of Lent

Gn 15:5-12, 17-18
Psalm 27:1, 7-8, 8-9, 13-14
Phil 3:17-4:1
Lk 9:28b-36

Violet

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