Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, September 7, 2008
L A T I N O T E S
Bulletin of the Community of St. Philippine Duchesne
September 7, 2008
Seventeenth Sunday After Pentecost
MASS SCHEDULE & MARTYROLOGY
Confession begins 30 minutes prior to each Mass
Every Sunday: Low Mass at 6:30 a.m. High Mass at 11:00 a.m.
Monday, September 8 - Mass at 12:00 Noon
Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Tuesday, September 9 - Mass at 12:00 Noon
St. Peter Claver, Confessor
Wednesday, September 10 – Mass at 12:00 Noon
St. Nicholas of Tolentino, Confessor
Thursday, Sept. 11 - Mass & Benediction at 6:00 p.m.
Feria
Friday, September 12 - Mass at 12:00 Noon
Most Holy Name of Mary
Saturday, September 13 - Mass at 9:00 a.m.
Feria
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Annual Pilgrimage
Please mark your calendars: Our Annual St Rose Philippine Duchesne pilgrimage to Mound City and the shrine will be on September 13th.
Holy Mass will be held at 10:00 am at Sacred Heart Church in Mound City, KS. Sack lunch and Stations of the Cross will follow at the Shrine. Flyers with directions will be available in the back of the church.
Adult Class
Fr Wolfe's adult class will resume Sept. 16th at 7:15 PM at the Merriam Community Center.
Fr Wolfe's adult class will resume Sept. 16th at 7:15 PM at the Merriam Community Center.
Altar Servers
We will begin server activities for the coming year soon. We will have a Knights of the Altar initiation ceremony on Saturday, September 20th after Mass to start the year off. If you have any questions, email or call Sean Maher.
We will begin server activities for the coming year soon. We will have a Knights of the Altar initiation ceremony on Saturday, September 20th after Mass to start the year off. If you have any questions, email or call Sean Maher.
Youth Group
The youth group will resume later in Sept and we shall keep you posted.
The youth group will resume later in Sept and we shall keep you posted.
Conversion Cathechist Course
Fr de Freitas will start a conversion catechist course on Mon. Sept. 15th at the Merriam community center, starting at about 7pm. The course is for non-Catholics who would like to become Catholics, so if you have friends or family who might be interested in knowing about the Catholic faith but have been hesitant to make any inquiries, now is a perfect opportunity to invite them along. Also if you are a Catholic and would like a brush up on the Catechism, this may also appeal to you. Donuts and coffee will be served.
Fr de Freitas will start a conversion catechist course on Mon. Sept. 15th at the Merriam community center, starting at about 7pm. The course is for non-Catholics who would like to become Catholics, so if you have friends or family who might be interested in knowing about the Catholic faith but have been hesitant to make any inquiries, now is a perfect opportunity to invite them along. Also if you are a Catholic and would like a brush up on the Catechism, this may also appeal to you. Donuts and coffee will be served.
Additional Daily Mass
The new schedule will take effect starting on Monday Sept 15 with a 6:30 AM Mass each morning at Blessed Sacrament. (Don't worry; we're not canceling the other daily Masses: this is in addition to our existing Mass schedule!) After the noon Mass on Tuesdays we will have a brief Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray the Memorare and sing the Litany of the Sacred Heart for vocations, and then close with Benediction.
The new schedule will take effect starting on Monday Sept 15 with a 6:30 AM Mass each morning at Blessed Sacrament. (Don't worry; we're not canceling the other daily Masses: this is in addition to our existing Mass schedule!) After the noon Mass on Tuesdays we will have a brief Exposition of the Most Blessed Sacrament, pray the Memorare and sing the Litany of the Sacred Heart for vocations, and then close with Benediction.
A Note from Fr Wolfe
I've asked Fr de Freitas to visit everyone and renew, or enthrone each home to the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts; I've also asked him to teach a class for those wishing to convert or anyone who just wants to have a good basic overview of the Faith in one academic year. And I've asked Fr Fongemie - who is a disciple of the great Dominican Fr Garrigou-Lagrange - to teach a monthly class on the Spiritual life.
I had a good time visiting the folks, but it's good to be back - but I will be gone again for awhile in order to make my retreat. (Yeah, I know, doesn't this guy ever stop goofing around?) I will pray for you; please pray for me.
I had a good time visiting the folks, but it's good to be back - but I will be gone again for awhile in order to make my retreat. (Yeah, I know, doesn't this guy ever stop goofing around?) I will pray for you; please pray for me.
Making A Proper Thanksgiving
Pope Pius XII on the importance of making a proper thanksgiving after receiving Holy Communion:
...should we not approve of those who, when they receive holy communion, remain on in closest familiarity with their divine Redeemer even after the congregation has been officially dismissed, and that not only for the consolation of conversing with Him, but also to render Him due thanks and praise and especially to ask help to defend their souls against anything that may lessen the efficacy of the sacrament and to do everything in their power to cooperate with the action of Christ who is so intimately present. We exhort them to do so in a special manner by carrying out their resolutions, by exercising the Christian virtues, as also by applying to their own necessities the riches they have received with royal Liberality. The author of that golden book The Imitation of Christ certainly speaks in accordance with the letter and the spirit of the liturgy, when he gives the following advice to the person who approaches the altar, "Remain on in secret and take delight in your God; for He is yours whom the whole world cannot take away from you."
From Thomas á Kempis
If you look for rest in this life, how will you attain to everlasting rest? Dispose yourself, then, not for much rest but for great patience. Seek true peace, not on earth but in heaven; not in men or in other creatures but in God alone. For love of God you should undergo all things cheerfully, all labors and sorrows, temptations and trials, anxieties, weaknesses, necessities, injuries, slanders, rebukes, humiliations, confusions, corrections, and contempt. For these are helps to virtue. These are the trials of Christ's recruit. These form the heavenly crown. For a little brief labor I will give an everlasting crown, and for passing confusion, glory that is eternal.
Do you think that you will always have spiritual consolations as you desire? My saints did not always have them. Instead, they had many afflictions, temptations of various kinds, and great desolation. Yet they bore them all patiently. They placed their confidence in God rather than in themselves, knowing that the sufferings of this life are not worthy to be compared with the glory that is to come. And you -- do you wish to have at once that which others have scarcely obtained after many tears and great labors?
(The Imitation of Christ Book 3, Chapter 35)
(The Imitation of Christ Book 3, Chapter 35)
Next Sunday
Exaltation of the Holy Cross: Epistle: Philippians 2: 5-11 ~ Gospel: John 12: 31 - 36
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