ANNOUNCEMENTS, Saints Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

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.

Daily Mass at the Chapel is again offered each weekday at 6:00 PM and 9:00AM on Saturday and Sunday.

The statue of St. Ann with the her child, the Blessed Virgin Mary will be placed in the chapel tomorrow on the feast of St. Ann.

The Mission has purchased a new tabernacle, monstrance, chalice and paten, and green with the her child, the Blessed Virgin Mary will be placed in the chapel tomorrow on the feast of St. Ann.

The Mission has purchased a new tabernacle, monstrance, chalice and paten, and vestments in green and violet.

Acting upon a complaint made to the diocese of Harrisburg, the diocese of Harrisburg contacted Bishop O’Brien of Baltimore who has forbidden Fr. Peterson under obedience from helping Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission in the future.

Bishop Joseph McFadden has been appointed as the new bishop of Harrisburg Diocese. His welfare will be remembered at each Mass and Rosary of Reparation offered in our chapel.

Appended below is the last letter sent to Brian Kisielnicki concerning the independent school corporation. This letter has been quoted repeatedly out of context and was used in the dramatic closure of Fr. Tetherow’s sermon on Good Shepherd Sunday. It is being offered now for clarification.

Acting under the advice of expert legal counsel and that of a traditional priest 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.

Two previous requests were made to Bill Fonticoba for the return of the Ss. Peter and Paul Roman Catholic Mission financial records. He has not complied with these requests consequently a letter was recently sent from the Mission’s legal counsel again requesting the return of the records. He also has a laptop computer provided by the Mission in his possession. Please make sure that you maintain records of your personal contributions, which may be necessary until the records are once again secured in the Mission’s possession.

PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 25^th:

25	Sun	St. James the Greater, Apostle 9^th Sunday after Pentecost St. Christopher, M	d2cl	R		9:00 AM; Members Ss. Peter & Paul; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM
26	Mon	St. Anne, Mother of the BVM, W	d2cl	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
27	Tue	St. Pantaleon, M	sp	R		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
28	Wed	St. Nazarius & Companions, Mm	sd	R		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
29	Thu	St. Martha, V St. Feliz II & Companions, Mm	sd	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
30	Fri	Ss. Abdon & Sennen, Mm	sp	R	A	Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation 5:30 PM
31	Sat	St. Ignatius of Loyola, C	dm	W		Mass 9:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation & Confession 8:30 AM
1	Sun	10^th Sunday after Pentecost St. Peter’s Chains St. Paul, Ap The Holy Machabees, Mm	sd	G		9:00 AM; Members Ss. Peter & Paul; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM; Confessions 8:00 AM

St. Ann Anne, Patroness of Christian Mothers

To St. Anne, God has given the power to aid in every necessity, because Jesus, her Divine Grandchild according to the flesh, will refuse her no petition, and Mary, her glorious daughter, supports her every request. Those who venerate good St. Anne shall want for nothing, either in this life or the next. Believe me, if you love and venerate this Saint, you will experience how highly God esteems her. He grants all she asks! It would be impossible to enumerate the many graces she obtains daily for her servants.

Abbot John Trithemius

Anne is the glorious tree from which bloomed a twig under Divine influence. She is the sublime heaven from whose heights the Star of the Sea neared its rising. She is the blessed barren woman, happy mother among mothers, from whose pure womb came forth the shining temple of God, the sanctuary of the Holy Ghost, the Mother of God.

St. Jerome

Blessed, thrice blessed art thou, O Saint Anne, who didst receive from God and brought forth the blessed child from whom proceeded Christ, the Flower of life! We congratulate thee, O blessed Anne, on the dignity of being the mother of Mary, for thou hast brought forth our common hope, the germ of Promise! All pious lips bless thee in thy daughter, all languages glorify thy child! Worthy art thou above all praise, worthy of the praise of all who are redeemed, for thou hast given life to her who brought forth our Savior, Jesus Christ.

St. John Damascene

From her very childhood, she possessed the fullness of every virtue. She was continually engaged in devout meditation. Her unceasing prayer was that the Redeemer might come soon.

St. Mary of Agreda

In desperate cases of need, I always invoke the holy mother Anne.

Blessed Anna Catherine Emmerich

We do not doubt that the more love we show to the mother of Mary, the more we merit the intercession and aid of the holy Virgin who brought forth the only-begotten Son of God, Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Pope Gregory XV

We know and are convinced that our good mother St. Anne helps in all needs, dangers and tribulations, for Our Lord wishes to show us that He will do also in Heaven what she asks of Him for us.

St. Teresa of Avila

How, then, is it that dark forebodings are come terrifying the watchmen of the holy mount? Strange apparitions, fearful noises, have deprived the sacred edifice of that calm and peace which become the house of the Lord. At the Feast of Pentecost the priests, who were fulfilling their ministry, have heard in the holy place a commotion like that of a mighty multitude, and many voices crying out together: ‘Let us go hence!’ On another occasion, at midnight, the heavy brazen gate which closed the sanctuary on the eastern side, and which took twenty men to move it, has opened of itself. O temple, O temple, let us say it, with them that witnessed these threatening prodigies, why art thou troubled? why workest thou thine own destruction? Alas! we know what awaits thee! The prophet Zacharias foretold it when he said: ‘Open thy gates, O Libanus, and let fire devour thy cedars!’

Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Eight Sunday after Pentecost

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

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

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

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

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