OUR MISSION STATEMENT, Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and charity through confession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in the Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. All Souls' Day by William Bouguereau, 1859 Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Office: 602-253-6090 Cell: 480-231-0573 (for urgent messages) Fax: 602-253-8013 Church: 1537 W. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mail: same as church address Email: [email protected]Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org Notitiæ October 30, 2011 Sunday Masses Propers: Readings: The Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King, Class I, White Colossians 1: 12-20 St. John 18: 33-37 Intentions: 9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission, Phoenix 9:00 am: Judy Fletcher; 11:00 am: Pro Populo Intention: 9:00 am Low Mass at Saint Cecilia’s Mission, Clarkdale 9:00 am: Pro Populo Weekday Masses At Mater Misericordiae Mission, Monroe St. Church Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 6:30 pm, Tuesday and Thursday: 6:30 am, Saturday: 8:00 am Monday, October 31 Thursday, November 3 Propers: Readings: Intention: Feria Class IV, Green Ephesians 5: 15-21 St. John 4: 46-53 6:30pm: Anne Sante Propers: Readings: Intention: Within the Octave of All Saints Class IV, White Apocalypse 7: 2-12 St. Matthew 5: 1-12 6:30am: John Frazinni Tuesday, November 1 Friday, November 4 Propers: Readings: Intention: The Feast of All Saints Holy Day of Obligation, Class I, White Apocalypse 7: 2-12 St. Matthew 5: 1-12 6:30am: Kathy and Bill Dunn 6:30pm: Pro Populo Propers: Readings: Intention: Daily Mass for the Departed Class IV, Black Apocalypse 14: 13 St. John 6: 51-55 6:30pm: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dunn+ Wednesday, November 2 Saturday, November 5 Propers: Readings: Intention: The Commemoration of All Souls Class III, Black 1 Corinthians 15: 51-57 St. John 5: 25-29 6:30pm: Matthew Frazinni+ Propers: Readings: Intention: Daily Mass for the Departed Class IV, Black Apocalypse 14: 13 St. John 6: 51-55 8:00am: Requiem for Deceased Members of the Confraternity of Saint Peter Confessions At MMM Monroe St. Church: Mon-Sat: 15 minutes before each Mass. Saturdays: 3:30-4:30 pm. Sundays: 8am, before the 9am Mass, between the 9am and 11am Masses, and after the 11am Mass. At St. Cecilia’s: Saturdays: 3-4 pm. Sundays: Before the 9am Mass. Other times by arrangement.
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OUR MISSION STATEMENT,
Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and charity through confession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in the Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the
Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.
inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to
the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit a
cemetery and pray, even if only mentally, for the
departed.
Mystic Monk Coffee Drive: Please help sup-
port the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter by pur-
chasing what is considered some of the finest
gourmet coffee available. See the Mystic Monk
Coffee poster and sign-up forms located
in vestibule for more information.
Altar Boy Training will now be on the third
Wednesday of the month after the 6:30 pm Mass.
CCD classes continue today: Classes con-
tinue today after the 9 a.m. Mass and are held in
the parish hall.
Adult Education Classes: Fr. Terra is
teaching classes in the faith. Classes are Monday
evenings at 7:30 in the hall. Classes will be based
on the book This is the Faith by Canon Francis J.
Ripley. All are welcome to attend any and all
classes.
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted and The Dio-
cese of Phoenix Cordially invite all to the an-
nual Blue Mass. This special mass of Thanks-
giving is a time to remember those who have
died during the past year and to pray for those
who continue to serve in all areas of Emergency
services and law-enforcement. Tuesday Novem-
ber 8, 2011, 10:00 AM, Ss. Simon and Jude Ca-
thedral, 6351 N. 27th Ave. Celebrant: Most Rev-
erend Thomas J. Olmsted, Bishop of Phoenix.
The King of Love made Himself
the Victim of His own Sacrifice.
SUNDAY COLLECT.
Almighty everlasting God, who in Thy beloved
Son, King of the whole world, hast willed to re-
store all things anew; grant in Thy mercy that all
the families of nations, rent asunder by the
wound of sin, may be subjected to His most
gentle rule. Who with Thee liveth... Through
our Lord.
SUNDAY EPISTLE: Colossians 1: 12-20
Brethren: Giving thanks to God the Father, who
hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of
the saints in light: who hath delivered us from the
power of darkness, and hath transferred us into
the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we
have redemption through His blood, the remission
of sins; who is the image of the invisible God, the
first born of every creature: for in Him were all
things created in heaven and on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or
principalities, or powers. All things were created
by Him and in Him; and He is before all, and by
Him all things consist. And He is the head of the
body the Church, who is the beginning, the first
born from the dead, that in all things, He may
hold the primacy; because in Him, it hath well
pleased the Father that all fullness should dwell;
and through Him to reconcile all things unto Him-
self making peace through the blood of His cross,
both as to the things on earth and the things that
are in heaven, in Jesus Christ our Lord.
SUNDAY GOSPEL: St. John 18: 33-37
At that time: Pilate said to Jesus: Art Thou the
King of the Jews? Jesus answered: Sayest thou
this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of
Me? Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thine own na-
tion and the chief priests have delivered Thee up
to me: what hast Thou done? Jesus answered:
My kingdom is not of this world. If My kingdom
were of this world, My servants would certainly
strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews;
but now My kingdom is not from hence. Pilate
therefore said to Him: Art thou a King then? Je-
sus answered: Thou sayest that I am a King. For
this was I born, and for this came I into the
world, that I should give testimony to the truth.
Every one that is of the truth, heareth My voice.
FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS
Oct. 30: HQ Staff
Oct. 31: Fr. Justin Nolan
Nov. 1: All Seminarians
Nov. 2: All Deceased FSSP Members
Nov. 3: Fr. Denis Bouchard
Nov. 4: Fr. Mark Wojdelski
Nov. 5: Fr. Eric Flood
On All the Saints
By St. Gregory Thamaturgus
Grant thy blessing, Lord.
It was my desire to be silent, and not to make a public display of the rustic rudeness of my tongue. For silence is a matter of great consequence when one's speech is mean. And to refrain from utterance is indeed an admirable thing, where there is lack of training; and verily he is the highest philosopher who knows how to cover his igno-rance by abstinence from public address. Knowing, therefore, the feebleness of tongue proper to me, I should have preferred such a course.
Nevertheless the spectacle of the onlookers impels me to speak. Since, then, this solemnity is a glorious one among our festivals, and the spectators form a crowded gathering, and our assembly is one of elevated fervour in the faith, I shall face the task of commencing an address with confidence. And this I may attempt all the more boldly, since the Father requests me, and the Church is with me, and the sainted martyrs with this object strengthen what is weak in me. For these have inspired aged men to accomplish with much love a long course, and constrained them to support their failing steps by the staff of the word; and they have stimulated women to
finish their course like the young men, and have brought to this, too, those of tender years, yea, even creeping children. In this wise have the martyrs shown their power, leaping with joy in the presence of death, laughing at the sword, making sport of the wrath of princes, grasping at death as the producer of deathlessness, making vic-tory their own by their fall, through the body taking their leap to heaven, suffering their members to be scattered abroad in order that they might hold their souls, and, bursting the bars of life, that they might open the. gates of
heaven. And if any one believes not that death is abolished, that Hades is trodden under foot, that the chains thereof are broken, that the tyrant is bound, let him look on the martyrs disporting themselves in the presence of death, and taking up the jubilant strain of the victory of Christ. O the marvel! Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death. "O death, where is thy sting! O grave, where is thy victory?" Hades and
the devil have been despoiled, and stripped of their ancient armour, and cast out of their peculiar power. And even as Goliath had his head cut off with his own sword, so also is the devil, who has been the father of death, put to rout through death; and he finds that the selfsame thing which he was wont to use as the ready weapon of his deceit, has become the mighty instrument of his own destruction. Yea, if we may so speak, casting his hook at the Godhead, and seizing the wonted enjoyment of the baited pleas-
ure, he is himself manifestly caught while he deems himself the captor, and discovers that in place of the man he has touched the God. By reason thereof do the martyrs leap upon the head of the dragon, and despise every spe-cies of torment. For since the second Adam has brought up the first Adam out of the deeps of Hades, as Jonah was delivered out of the whale, and has set forth him who was deceived as a citizen of heaven to the shame of the deceiver, the gates of Hades have been shut, and the gates of heaven have been opened, so as to offer an unim-peded entrance to those who rise thither in faith.
In olden time Jacob beheld a ladder erected reaching to heaven, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon it. But now, having been made man for man's sake, He who is the Friend of man has crushed with the foot of His divinity him who is the enemy of man, and has borne up the man with the hand of His Christhood, and has made the trackless ether to be trodden by the feet of man. Then the angels were ascending and descending; but
now the Angel of the great counsel neither ascendeth nor descendeth: for whence or where shall He change His position, who is present everywhere, and filleth all things, and holds in His hand the ends. of the world? Once, in-deed, He descended, and once He ascended,--not, however, through any change of nature, but only in the conde-scension of His philanthropic Christhood; and He is seated as the Word with the Father, and as the Word He dwells in the womb, and as the Word He is found everywhere, and is never separated from the God of the universe.
Aforetime did the devil deride the nature of man with great laughter, and he has had his joy over the times of our calamity as his festal-days. But the laughter is only a three days' pleasure, while the wailing is eternal; and his great laughter has prepared for him a greater wailing and ceaseless tears, and inconsolable weeping, and a sword in his heart. This sword did our Leader forge against the enemy with fire in the virgin furnace, in such wise and after such fashion as He willed, and gave it its point by the energy of His invincible divinity, and dipped it in the water of an undefiled baptism, and sharpened it by sufferings without passion in them, and made it bright by the
mystical resurrection; and herewith by Himself He put to death the vengeful adversary, together with his whole host. What manner of word, therefore, will express our joy or his misery? For he who was once an archangel is now a devil; he who once lived in heaven is now seen crawling like a serpent upon earth; he who once was jubilant with
the cherubim, is now shut up in pain in the guard-house of swine; and him, too, in fine, shall we put to rout if we mind those things which are contrary to his choice, by the grace and kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory and the power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.