ANNOUNCEMENTS, Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission

PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 7^th:

7	Sun	3^rd Sunday of Lent St. Thomas Aquinas	sd	V		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; For the Mission members
8	Mon	St. John of God, C	d	V	F	Mass 8:00 AM & Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
9	Tue	St. Frances of Rome, W	d	W	F	Mass 9:00 AM & Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
10	Wed	Forty Holy Martyrs	sd	W	F	Mass 8:00 AM & Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM; Confessions 5:30 PM
11	Thu	Ferial Day		W	F	Mass 8:00 AM & Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
12	Fri	St. Gregory the Great, PCD	d	V	F/A	Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:00 PM; Stations of the Cross 5:30 PM
13	Sat	Ferial Day		W	F	Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM
14	Sun	4^th Sunday of Lent Laetare Sunday	sd	V Rose		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; For the Mission members

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Notice: The school was established as an independent corporation that has no legal relationship with Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission. After a Mission board meeting, a letter was sent January 27^th asking the school board to formally readdress this question. The courtesy of a reply from Michael Kearney, the chairman of the School board has not been forthcoming. Another open letter has now been sent to the School board that is enclosed in this bulletin requesting again that the School board reconsider their determination to be an organization independent from the Mission.

On the Third Sunday of each month, a collection will be taken for the needy among the Mission members, supporters and lastly, others asking our help. Fr. Tetherow will be responsible for the distribution of these funds.

Planned Parenthood Abortuary in York has begun again to perform abortions. The Rosary of Reparation will again be offered before the clinic. During the Rosary of Reparation, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, a total of at least nine women have left without terminating the life of their child. If you cannot be present please make an effort to support those who are with your prayers and sacrifices

The gravity of sin is determined by the interval which it places between man and God; now sin against faith, divides man from God as far as possible, since it deprives him of the true knowledge of God; it therefore follows that sin against faith is the greatest of all sins.

St. Thomas Aquinas

St. Thomas of Aquinas is an honour to mankind, for perhaps there never existed a man whose intellect surpassed his. He is one of the brightest ornaments of the Church, for not one of her doctors has equaled him in the clearness and precision wherewith he has explained her doctrines. He received the thanks of Christ Himself, for having well written of Him and His mysteries. How welcome ought this feast of such a saint to be to us during this season of the year, when our main study is our return and conversion to God!

Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Thomas of Aquinas

The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing.

Saint Thomas Aquinas

Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission is constituted as a religious society. It is canonically a pious union of Catholics but functions in the manner of a confraternity. Like other confraternities, its constitution and governing structure are intended to be fixed, dedicated toward a specific spiritual end, for which members join together in common union to seek their own spiritual perfection working toward a common end. Membership in the Mission is open to any Catholic who subscribes to its corporate purpose and takes upon himself the obligation to offer a daily Rosary of reparation to the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, a weekly day of fast, preferably on Tuesday, and a Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament at least once each month as a minimum for the intentions of the Mission. The Mass intention offered each Sunday and Holy Day are for members of the Mission. Membership forms are located in the vestibule. If you are not a member of the Mission please consider becoming one.

WANTED:

Any priest from the Diocese of Harrisburg, with moral integrity and intellectual competency, to come forth in the public forum to formally contest, in writing, the doctrinal, moral, liturgical and canonical claims of SS. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission that we possess by virtue of our baptism the right to the unrestricted use of the immemorial traditions of our Church without prejudice to our Catholic Faith, particularly the right to the sacraments of our Church according to “received and approved” immemorial rites. Please contact the Mission at our saintspeterandpaulrcm@comcast.net if interested.

May Crowning and Public Procession in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary

There is another issue that must be faced calmly and without emotion. This election shows in broad strokes the utter failure of the Second Vatican Council. The promise of the entire modernist thrust at Vatican II was to introduce change to make the Church more “relevant” to modern man. Thus our leaders abandoned the age-old magisterial teaching on the Social Kingship of Christ in favor of an insipid dialogue with the world. They told governments of Catholic countries to remove any reference to a “Catholic State” from their constitutions. Our leaders forsook the doctrine on the Church as the one and only ark of salvation to favor a modernist ecumenism always condemned by the perennial teaching of the centuries.

In the name of Vatican II, modern Church leaders undermined doctrine, abandoned discipline, demoralized and persecuted faithful priests, caused confusion among the faithful, promoted perverted sex-education (and shouted down Catholic parents who objected to sex-ed in Catholic schools), refused to rein in heretical priests and religious, and refused to discipline pro-abortion politicians.

The net effect of Vatican II’s modernization is a weak, effeminate, scandal-ridden and disoriented Church that, as this election proves, has become utterly irrelevant to the thought-process of not only the average American, but of the average American Catholic. Even the most basic issues of the natural moral law, such as abortion and homosexuality, cannot be upheld by vast numbers of Catholics who lined up to vote for the pro-abortion Senator from Illinois.

John Vennari, editor, Catholic Family News

The Holy Spirit has not been promised to the successors of Peter that, under His revelation, they might make known a new doctrine, but in order that, with His assistance, they sacredly preserve and faithfully set forth the revelation transmitted by the Apostles, that is to say, the deposit of the faith.

Vatican Council I, Pastor Aeternus

St. Thomas Aquinas

Why the Church Requires Our Prayers for the Sovereign Pontiff

The Holy Ghost, who has guaranteed the infallible purity of the doctrine taught officially from the apostolic Chair, has not pledged himself to protect in a like degree from all failure either the virtue, or the private judgment, or ever the administrative acts of the Sovereign Pontiff…Our Lord has willed that to the prayers of all should be confided the charge of completing His work by obtaining for the successors of Peter such preservative graces as do not of themselves necessarily spring from the divine constitution of the Church.

Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of St. Leo II

An evil bishop, a bad priest, a layman in grievous sin are dead members of the Body of Christ, and therefore not true members, if we understand 'member' in the strict sense of an integral part of a living body. However, these same 'dead members' are very vital members if we consider them as instruments of activity within the Church. So that the Pope and bishops are real heads, the teachers and preachers are real eyes and tongues of the Body of Christ, even when they have fallen from the grace of God. For while it is true that a Christian becomes a living member of this Body through charity, yet in the Providence of God the instruments of operation in the Church are constituted by the power of orders and jurisdiction, which can be obtained and exercised even by a man who is personally an enemy of God. Hence the great difference between a physical body, in which a dead member cannot serve as a vital instrument, and the supernatural Mystical Body, where this is not only possible but actually happens. To explain the paradox we should recall that in natural bodies their work depends entirely on the health and soundness of the organs by which they act. But the Mystical Body of Christ can operate independently of the virtue and vitality of its members, because the soul of this Body, which is the Holy Spirit, can function equally through good instruments as through bad, through instruments that are alive as through those which are dead.

St. Robert Bellarmine, On the Church Militant

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