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Wednesday 22 February 2012   (wrong day?)
Ash Wednesday
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Come, today, and listen to his voice: do not harden your hearts.
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Tomorrow: Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(commemoration of Saint Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr)


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Invitatory psalmCome, today, and listen to his voice: do not harden your hearts.
In other years: St Peter's Chair
This feast has been celebrated in Rome since at least the fourth century. It signifies the unity of the Church founded upon the Apostles.

Mid-morning reading (Terce)Ezekiel 18:30-32 ©
Repent, renounce all your sins, avoid all occasions of sin! Shake off all the sins you have committed against me, and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why are you so anxious to die, House of Israel? I take no pleasure in the death of anyone – it is the Lord who speaks. Repent and live!

Noon reading (Sext)Zechariah 1:3-4 ©
Return to me, says the Lord of Hosts, and I will return to you. Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the prophets in the past cried ‘Turn back from your evil ways and evil deeds’ but they would not listen.

Afternoon reading (None)Daniel 4:24 ©
By virtuous actions break with your sins, break with your crimes by showing mercy to the poor, and so live long and peacefully.

February 2012
Tue 21  Tuesday of week 7 of the year
or Saint Peter Damian, Bishop, Doctor
Wed 22  Ash Wednesday
Thu 23  Thursday after Ash Wednesday
(commemoration of Saint Polycarp, Bishop, Martyr)
Fri 24   
Sat 25   
Sun 26  1st Sunday of Lent
Mon 27  Monday of the 1st week of Lent
Tue 28   
Calendar used: United States

Scripture readings taken from the Jerusalem Bible, published and copyright © 1966, 1967 and 1968 by Darton, Longman & Todd, Ltd and Doubleday, a division of Random House, Inc, and used by permission of the publishers. For on-line information about other Random House, Inc. books and authors, see the Internet web site at http://www.randomhouse.com.
 
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