28 Feb – Saturday after Ash Wednesday Isaiah 58:9-14 The Lord says this: If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fish, the wicked word, if you give your bread to the hungry, and relief to the oppressed, your light will rise in the darkness, and your shadows become like noon. The Lord will [...]
27 Feb – Friday after Ash Wednesday ____________________ Isaiah 58:1-9 Thus says the Lord: Shout for all you are worth, raise your voice like a trumpet. Proclaim their faults to my people, their sins to the House of Jacob. They seek me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that [...]
26 Feb – Thursday after Ash Wednesday ____________________ Deuteronomy 30:15-20 Moses said to the people: “See, today I set before you life and prosperity, death and disaster. If you obey the commandments of the Lord your God that I enjoin on you today, if you love the Lord your God and follow his ways, if [...]
25 Feb – Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs forty days before Easter (excluding Sundays). It falls on a different date each year, because it is dependent on the date of Easter; it can occur as early as Feb 4 or as late as Mar 10. Ash Wednesday gets [...]
24 Feb ____________________ Ecclesiasticus 2:1-11 My son, if you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an ordeal. Be sincere of heart, be steadfast, and do not be alarmed when disaster comes. Cling to him and do not leave him, so that you may be honoured at the end of your days. Whatever happens [...]
23 Feb – Memorial for St. Polycarp, bishop & martyr St. Polycarp (69-155) was an associate of, converted by, and disciple of St. John the Apostle. He was a friend of St. Ignatius of Antioch, and he fought Gnosticism. He was the Bishop of Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), and was a revered Christian leader during [...]
22 Feb – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time Christ Forgives Our Sins Today we say Yes to the Lord who comes to forgive us our sins, and we praise him who shows such mercy to the poor and the weak. – the Sunday Missal ____________________ Today we welcome Austin as a regular contributor for OXYGEN. [...]
21 Feb – Saturday in the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time; St Peter Damian, Bishop & Doctor Peter Damian (1007-1072) was the youngest child in a large family. When he was orphaned, he was sent to live with a brother where he was mistreated and forced to work as a swine-herd. He cared for another brother, a priest in [...]
20 Feb – Friday in the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time ____________________ Gen 11:1-9 Throughout the earth men spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary. Now as they moved eastwards they found a plain in the land of Shinar where they settled. They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the fire.’ [...]
19 Feb – Thursday in the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time ____________________ Gen 9:1-13 God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, ‘Be fruitful, multiply and fill the earth. Be the terror and the dread of all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven, of everything that crawls on the ground and all the fish of [...]
