The February calendar has been posted. We encourage you to notice and appreciate the richness of the meaningful liturgy of the pre-1955 liturgical celebrations, its clarity and encompassing way of presenting –through the hands of the priest– our prayers to the Lord, in unity with all the traditional intentions and orations the Holy Mother Church instructs us to recall in all Masses of the month. The pre-Bugnini liturgy is, without doubt, the best and most coherent way of defending our traditional Catholic faith in the present time.
In this month we celebrate the conclusion of the sanctoral season of Christmas* with the Feast of the Purification on Monday, February 2, and we begin the Paschal Cycle the preceding day, Sunday February 1, with Septuagesima season, and continue with Lent beginning on February 18, Ash Wednesday.
In February we also honor the Blessed Virgin Mary under two of her many titles: on February 2nd, recalling her appearances to the Conceptionist Sister, Mother Mariana de Jesus Torres, in Quito, Ecuador under the title of Our Lady of Good Success (1594-1634); and on February 11, the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes commemorating her apparitions to St. Bernadette Soubirous in Massabielle, France (1858).
The Ember Days of Lent are February 25, 27 and 28.
* According to the St. Andrew Daily Missal, Dom Gaspar Lefebvre, O.S.B., 1945, p. 125. Note that the temporal season of Christmas concludes with the Octave of Epiphany, January 13.
If you want to see calendar pages of other months in the current year or past years, you can view the Liturgical Calendars section of our website.
