In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin.

Ecclesiasticus 7:40

“Could You Not Watch One Hour With Me?” (Matt.26, 40)

Holy Hour of Adoration and Reparation Every Monday thru Friday 5:00 to 6:00 PM

"He is The Bread sown in the virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulcher, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful."

St. Peter Chrysologus (400-450)

Faithfully do what God expects of you each moment, and leave the rest up to Him.

I assure you that living in this manner will bring you great peace.

St. Jane Francis de Chantal

The cause of the gift of wisdom is found in the will, and it is charity.

St. Thomas Aquinas

During the period from Septuagesima to Ash Wednesday, the liturgy speaks no more of our greatness but contemplates the misery of fallen humanity-the fatal consequences of original sin and actual sin-and the sacrifice that God asked from the faithful Melchisedech, symbol of the sacrifice that Jesus brings for the whole of humanity…In this period we also prepare for the fasting and penance of the Season of Lent.

Rev. Sylvester P. Juergens, S.M.

From all this it is evident that the Christian, who would spend Septuagesima according to the spirit of the Church, must make war upon that false security, that self-satisfaction, which are so common to effeminate and tepid souls, and produce spiritual barrenness. It is well for them, if these delusions do not insensibly lead them to the absolute loss of the true Christian spirit. He that thinks himself dispensed from that continual watchfulness, which is so strongly inculcated by our divine Master, is already in the enemy’s power. He that feels no need of combat and of struggle in order to persevere and make progress in virtue should fear that he is not even on the road to that kingdom of God, which is only to be won by violence. He that forgets the sins which God’s mercy has forgiven him, should fear lest he be the victim of a dangerous delusion.

Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Septuagesima Sunday

The duration of the world itself, according to the ancient Christian tradition, is divided into seven ages. The human race must pass through seven ages before the dawning of the day of eternal life. The first age included the time from the creation of Adam to Noah; the second begins with Noah and the renovation of the earth by the deluge, and ends with the vocation of Abraham; the third opens with this first formation of God’s chosen people, and continues as far as Moses, through whom God gave the Law; the fourth consists of the period between Moses and David, in whom the house of Juda received the kingly power; the fifth formed of the years which passed between David’s reign and the captivity of Babylon, inclusively; the sixth dates from the return of the Jews to Jerusalem, and takes us on as far as the birth of our Saviour. Then, finally, comes the seventh age; it starts with the rising of this merciful Redeemer, the Sun of justice, and is to continue till the dread coming of the Judge of the living and the dead. These are the seven great divisions of time; after which, eternity… After the Septuagesima of mourning, we shall have the bright Easter with its seven weeks of gladness, foreshadowing the happiness and bliss of heaven.

Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, The Mystery of Septuagesima

PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5^th:

20	Sun	Septuagesima Sunday St. Agatha, VM	sd	V		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Mass for Mission members
21	Mon	St. Titus, BpC St. Dorothy, VM	d	V		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
22	Tue	St. Romuald, Ab	d	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
23	Wed	St. John of Matha, C	d	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM; Confessions 5:30 PM
24	Thu	St. Cyril of Alexandria, BpCD St. Apollonia, VM	d	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
25	Fri	St. Scholastica, V	d	W	A	Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 5:30 PM
26	Sat	Apparition of Our Lady of Lourdes	dm	W		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM
27	Sun	Sexagesima Sunday Seven Holy Founders of the Servites, Cc	sd	V		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30; Mass for Mission members

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel is open to its members at any time of the day or night for visits to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

Every Mass for Sunday and other Holy Days of Obligation are offered for the welfare of the members of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission.

Preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation is underway. Please contact Fr. Waters with any questions.

Tomorrow, January 30 is the 34 anniversary of the death of Fr. Leonard Feeney, the founder of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and tireless defender of the truth of Catholic dogma. Please remember the blessed repose of his soul.

Bishop McFadden recently returned from his Ad Limina visit to Rome. If Bishop McFadden used this opportunity to bring the petition of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission before Pope Benedict for his judgment, which is his sworn duty before God to have done, there is no evidence of it.

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.  Membership forms are located in the vestibule. If you are not a member of the Mission please consider becoming one.

Included in the bulletin is the recent letter of Fr. Christian Bouchacourt, SSPX District Superior for South America, written to the priests within his district. The letter addresses the SSPX leadership’s meeting with Bishop Fellay in Albano to discuss the “Doctrinal Preamble” given to the SSPX by Cardinal Levada. These doctrinal negotiations materially impact every Catholic and have no inherent right to be treated as a private matter.

A letter was received from Bishop McFadden in response to our letter of August 17, 2011 concerning the comments by “diocesan officials” about Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission that were published in the York Daily Record Article on July 29, 2011. Bishop McFadden has not responded to our letter of June 29, 2011. A copy of that letter concerning the Mission in light of the recent publication, Universae Ecclesiae, from the PCED and the most recent letters are posted on the Mission web page.

Universae Ecclesiae was published May 13 and concerns instructions for the implementation Summorum Pontificum which was published July 7, 2007. Summorum Pontificum is a grant of legal privilege for the use of the 1962 Indult Missal, which was henceforth to be called the “Extra-Ordinary Form” of the Novus Ordo while the 1969 edition of the Novus Ordo became the “Ordinary Form” of that rite. These are word games, but what was manifestly clear from its publication was that this document concerned Pope Benedict’s continuing efforts to create a “Reform of the Reform” by inventing a liturgical ‘hermeneutic of continuity.’ The actual ‘continuity’ between these two “forms” is Bugnini 1962 and Bugnini 1969 and that is why they are an expression of a single lex orandi/lex credendi. The end of the “reform of the reform" apparently will be a version of the Mass somewhere between the 1965 and 1967 Bugnini productions. Whatever Pope Benedict ends up with, it will not be the “received and approved” immemorial Roman rite of Mass that is offered at Ss. Peter & Paul Chapel, offered not by virtue of Indult or grant of legal privilege, but by virtue of our rights as Catholic faithful.

An edited letter sent from the Mission in reply to Dr. E. Michael Jones article, Traditionalism at the End of Its Tether, was published in Culture Wars Magazine. The unedited letter has been posted on the Open Letters page to better clarify the Mission’s position in defense of Catholic tradition. The letter is entitled, Why the SSPX Cannot Effectively Defend Catholic Tradition.

Mr. Dave Romeo is the author of a pamphlet entitled, The Birth of a Chapel, which purports to be a history of Ss. Peter & Paul Roman Catholic Mission. Mr. Romeo was associated with our Mission in its formative stages but left after his efforts in support of a sedevacantist priest to take control of the corporate structure of the Mission in early 2003 were stopped. Mr. Romeo had no part in the incorporation of the Mission and he is ignorant of the structure and purpose of the Mission as constituted in its bylaws and reflected in the Open Letters published on the Mission web page. Furthermore, since the Mission’s incorporation, Mr. Romeo never became a formal member of the Mission which required the commitment of daily prayers and minimal penitential acts for the Mission’s welfare that he was not willing to do. The pamphlet contains many errors of fact and errors of omission that are inexcusable.

Acting under the advice of expert legal counsel and in obedience to Fr. Casimir Peterson, a traditional priest and canon lawyer, who has provided spiritual direction to this Mission for many years, Fr. Tetherow was removed as chaplain of our religious society. He no longer offers Mass at our Chapel. This was done for cause on May 14, 2010. Fr. Peterson conducted a formal inquiry to the conduct of Fr. Tetherow at our Mission as well as a thorough investigation with religious authorities regarding the character of Fr. Tetherow before a final decision was made. The published defense of Fr. Tetherow was formally retracted because we discovered that it was based upon information that was found to be either false or intentionally distorted.

The new version of the 1962 Extra-Ordinary Form of the Novus Ordo has already been printed and will soon be sold by Baronius Press. Those that attend this rite by virtue of legal grant of privlidge will be expected to accept these revisions as part of the on going Reform of the Reform. With the recent approval of the Neo-Catechumenical Way, it remains to seen what added leverage will be brought to the liberal influence over the final form of the New Novus Ordo.

Take what is thine and go thy way:

I will also give to this last even as to thee.

Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will?

Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

So shall the last be first,

and the first last.

For many are called,

but few chosen.

There is no fault committed by another man of which we ourselves are not capable if we were placed in the same circumstances and surrounded by the same evil examples from the time of our youth.

St. Augustine

The fort is betrayed even of them that should have defended it.

St. John Fisher, Bishop and Martyr

In condemning us, you condemn all your ancestors, all the ancient bishops and kings, all that was once the glory of England.

St. Edmund Campion, priest and martyr

One deceives himself who thinks that the prophetic mission of Fatima is concluded.

Pope Benedict XVI, May 2010

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.

Hermeneutics of Continuity/Discontinuity

End Point: The Reform of the Reform will be Bugnini 1967?

Pope's 'reform of the reform' in liturgy to continue, cardinal says By John Thavis, CNS
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI's easing of restrictions on use of the 1962 Roman Missal, known as the Tridentine rite, is just the first step in a "reform of the reform" in liturgy, the Vatican's top ecumenist said.
The pope's long-term aim is not simply to allow the old and new rites to coexist, but to move toward a "common rite" that is shaped by the mutual enrichment of the two Mass forms, Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said May 14.
In effect, the pope is launching a new liturgical reform movement, the cardinal said. Those who resist it, including "rigid" progressives, mistakenly view the Second Vatican Council as a rupture with the church's liturgical tradition, he said.
Cardinal Koch made the remarks at a Rome conference on "Summorum Pontificum," Pope Benedict's 2007 apostolic letter that offered wider latitude for use of the Tridentine rite. The cardinal's text was published the same day by L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper.
Cardinal Koch said Pope Benedict thinks the post-Vatican II liturgical changes have brought "many positive fruits" but also problems, including a focus on purely practical matters and a neglect of the paschal mystery in the Eucharistic celebration. The cardinal said it was legitimate to ask whether liturgical innovators had intentionally gone beyond the council's stated intentions.

Cardinal Koch said Pope Benedict thinks the post-Vatican II liturgical changes have brought "many positive fruits" but also problems, including a focus on purely practical matters and a neglect of the paschal mystery in the Eucharistic celebration. The cardinal said it was legitimate to ask whether liturgical innovators had intentionally gone beyond the council's stated intentions.
He said this explains why Pope Benedict has introduced a new reform movement, beginning with "Summorum Pontificum." The aim, he said, is to revisit Vatican II's teachings in liturgy and strengthen certain elements, including the Christological and sacrificial dimensions of the Mass.
Cardinal Koch said "Summorum Pontificum" is "only the beginning of this new liturgical movement."
In fact, Pope Benedict knows well that, in the long term, we cannot stop at a coexistence between the ordinary form and the extraordinary form of the Roman rite, but that in the future the church naturally will once again need a common rite," he said.

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