Ash Wednesday
18 February 2026 – Let us, Christians, with a spirit of repentance and humility receive the salutary ashes which the Church will place upon our heads. These ashes are the image of what we are of ourselves: dust and nothingness …
R.K. Parochie H. Jozef voor de traditionele Romeinse Ritus
18 February 2026 – Let us, Christians, with a spirit of repentance and humility receive the salutary ashes which the Church will place upon our heads. These ashes are the image of what we are of ourselves: dust and nothingness …
At that time, Jesus took unto him the twelve, and said to them: Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be accomplished which were written by the prophets concerning the Son of man. For he shall be delivered to the Gentiles, and shall be mocked …
And when a very great multitude was gathered together and hastened out of the cities unto him, he spoke by a similitude: The sower went out to sow his seed …
2 February 2026 – BELOVED FAITHFUL – With the first Sunday of February, the pre-Lenten season begins this year, with the Sunday of Septuagesima. These three weeks of preparation for the holy season of Lent give us the opportunity to grow gradually into the great penitential time of the forty days that precede the feast of Easter …
2 February – Candlemas, also called the Presentation of the Lord, commemorates the offering of the Child Jesus in the temple forty days after his birth. In the Gospel of this day (Luke 2:22–32) Simeon sings his canticle, the Nunc dimittis. From this Gospel word the feast derives its symbolism of light: the blessing of candles and the procession express that Christ, the true Light, has appeared in the world …