The month of February is dedicated to the Holy Family..

The Holy Father’s Intentions for the Month of February 2025

For vocations to the priesthood and religious life.

Let us pray that the ecclesial community might welcome the desires and doubts of those young people who feel a call to serve Christ’s mission in the priesthood and religious life

Feasts for February

02. Presentation of the Lord, Feast, Sunday

03. Blaise; Ansgar, Opt. Mem.

05. Agatha, Memorial

06. Paul Miki and Companions, Memorial

08. Jerome Emiliani; Josephine Bakhita, Opt. Mem.

09. FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

10. Scholastica, Memorial

11. Our Lady of Lourdes, Opt. Mem.

14. Cyril and Methodius, Memorial

16. SIXTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

17. Seven Founders of the Servite Order, Opt. Mem.

21. St. Peter Damian, Opt. Mem.

22. Chair of St. Peter, Feast

23. SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME, Sunday

Focus of the Liturgy

The Gospel readings for the Sundays in February are taken from St. Luke following the Lectionary Cycle Year C and the Weekday readings follow Year I.

February 2nd – Feast of the Presentation of the Lord

Luke 2:23-40: My eyes have seen your salvation.

February 9th – Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Year C, Luke 5:1-11: They left everything and followed Jesus.

February 16th – Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Year C, Luke 6:17, 20-26: Blessed are the poor. Woe to you who are rich.

February 23rd – Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Year C, Luke 6:27-38: Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.

Highlights of the Month

The month of February is traditionally dedicated to the Holy Family. Between the events which marked Christmas and the beginning of Christ’s public life the Church has seen fit to recall the example of the Holy Family for the emulation of the Christian family.

The Feast of the Presentation (February 2) or Candlemas forms a fitting transition from Christmas to Easter. The small Christ-Child is still in His Mother’s arms, but already she is offering Him in sacrifice. February 21, Shrove Tuesday, will find us preparing for Ash Wednesday. The middle of the month will find us on Ash Wednesday accepting the ashes that remind us of our mortality and our need for penance.

The Optional Memorial of Polycarp (February 23), is superseded by the Sunday Liturgy.

extract from catholicculture.org