28 Feb The Lord In Whom We Put Our Faith Like Abraham, our father in faith, we are called by God to a new homeland. We are not to rest in the material comforts of this world, but to move onwards towards the land of promise, where the Lord in whom we put our faith [...]
27 Feb _____________________ Deuteronomy 26:16-19 Moses said to the people: ‘The Lord your God today commands you to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul. ‘You have today made this declaration about the Lord: that he will be your God, but only [...]
26 Feb _____________________ Ezekiel 18:21-28 Thus says the Lord: ‘If the wicked man renounces all the sins he has committed, respects my laws and is law-abiding and honest, he will certainly live; he will not die. All the sins he committed will be forgotten from then on; he shall live because of the integrity he [...]
25 Feb _____________________ Esther 4:17 Queen Esther took refuge with the Lord in the mortal peril which had overtaken her. She besought the Lord God of Israel in these words: ‘My Lord, our King, the only one, come to my help, for I am alone and have no helper but you and am about to [...]
24 Feb _____________________ Jonah 3:1-10 The word of the Lord was addressed a second time to Jonah: ‘Up!’ he said ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to them as I told you to.’ Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was a city [...]
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 the [...]
22 Feb – Feast of the Chair of St Peter, Apostle The feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Rome, Italy has been celebrated from the early days of the Christian era on Jan 18, in commemoration of the day when St. Peter held his first service in Rome. The feast of the Chair [...]
21 Feb – First Sunday of Lent Jesus Is Lord Today we praise God for the marvelous things he did for our fathers, for his mighty hand and outstretched arm. What he did for them he still does for us, in Jesus the Lord who conquered sin and death. – The Sunday Missal _____________________ Deuteronomy [...]
20 Feb – Saturday after Ash Wednesday _____________________ Isaiah 58:9-14 The Lord says this: If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist, 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 [...]
19 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 [...]
