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Prayers & Devotions

February 2009
Year B - Weekdays I

MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS, BENEDICT XVI, FOR LENT 2009, December 11, 2008 

Holy Father's Prayer Intentions for February 2009

General: That the Pastors of the Church may always be docile to the action of the Holy Spirit in their teaching and in their service to God's people.

Mission: That the Church in Africa may find adequate ways and means to promote reconciliation, justice and peace efficaciously, according to the indications of the Synod of the Bishops’ Special Assembly for Africa.

1 4th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Dt 18:15-20
1 Cor 7:32-35
Mk 1:21-28

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**

Heb 12:1-4
Mk 5:21-43

Green/*Red/
**White

 4

Heb 12:4-7, 11-15
Mk 6:1-6

Green

 5 Saint Agatha

Heb 12:18-19, 21-24
Mk 6:7-13

Red

 6 Saint Paul Miki & companions

Heb 13:1-8
Mk 6:14-29

First Friday

Abstinence

Red

 7 BVM*, Blessed Pius IX, Pope*

Heb 13:15-17, 20-21
Mk 6:30-34

Green/*White
8 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Jb 7:1-4, 6-7
1 Cor 9:16-19, 22-23
Mk 1:29-39

[Saint Jerome Emiliani,
Saint Josephine Bakhita]

Green

 9

Gn 1:1-19
Mk 6:53-56

Green

 10 Saint Scholastica

Gn 1:20-2:4a
Mk 7:1-13

White

 11 Our Lady of Lourdes* -- Rosary page

Gn 2:4b-9, 15-17
Mk 7:14-23

Green/*White

 12

Gn 2:18-25
Mk 7:24-30

Green

 13

Jn 3:1-8
Mk 7:31-37

Abstinence

Green

 14 Saint Cyril & Saint Methodius

Saint Valentine's Day

Gn 3:9-24
Mk 8:1-10

White
15 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Lv 13:1-2, 44-46
1Cor 10:31-11:1
Mk 1:40-45

Green

 16

Gn 4:1-15, 25
Mk 8:11-13

Green

 17 The Seven Founders of the Order of Servites*

Gn 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10
Mk 8:14-21

Green/*White

 18

Gn 8:6-13, 20-22
Mk 8:22-26

Green

 19

Gn 9:1-13
Mk 8:27-33

Green

 20

Gn 11:1-9
Mk 8:34-9:1

Abstinence

Green

 21 Saint Peter Damian*, BVM*

Heb 11:1-7
Mk 9:2-13

Green/*White
22 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Is 43:18-19, 21-22, 24b-25
2 Cor 1:18-22
Mk 2:1-12

[The Chair of Saint Peter]

Green

 23 Saint Polycarp

Sir 1:1-10
Mk 9:14-29

Red

 24 Mardi Gras

Sir 2:1-11
Mk 9:30-37

Green

 25 Ash Wednesday

Jl 2:12-18
2 Cor 5:20-6:2
Mt 6:1-6, 16-18

Fasting and Abstinence

Violet

 26

Dt 30:15-20
Lk 9:22-25

Violet

 27 Saint Anne Line (England)

Is 58:1-9a
Mt 9:14-15

Abstinence

Violet

 28

Is 58:9b-14
Lk 5:27-32

Violet

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