ANNOUNCEMENTS:

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The Rosary of Reparation in front of the Planned Parenthood Abortuary sponsored by St. Margaret Clitherow Guild is offered every Friday beginning at 7:30 AM. During the Rosary of Reparation over the last few weeks, through the intercession of the Blessed Virgin and the preaching of Father, four women left without terminating the life of their child. Benedicamus Domino. If you cannot attend this Rosary please make a mental note to unite yourself spiritually to the prayers and sacrifices being offered.

Fresh Water Family Fishing and Picnic will be on Saturday September 20^that Garber Farms Pond in Mt. Joy. Fishing will be from 7:00 Am until noon followed by the picnic. Please contact Dave Romeo at daveromeo@embarqmail.com or

361-2418.

Weekly educational conferences are conducted by Father after the Mass on Wednesday. These conferences, as well as the Sunday sermons, are available on the Mission web page. For the next three weeks the subject will be the Seven Sacraments.

We will be forming a children’s choir. Any parents who are interested in having their children participate please contact Christina Jawidzik.

The St. Margaret Clitherow Guild has made over $2700 in profit just by selling grocery cards! This is such a great and easy fundraiser! Thanks to all who are able to participate! If you would like to receive cards in advance and pay later, or if you are not familiar with the program and would like more information, please see Pam Noel.

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.

PROPER OF THE SAINTS FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 7^TH:

7	Sun	17^th Sunday after Pentecost	sd	G		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM
8	Mon	Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (with simple octave)	d2cl	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 5:30 PM
9	Tue	St. Peter Claver, C *St. Gorgonius, M*	d	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 5:30 PM
10	Wed	St. Nicholas of Tolentino, C	d	W		Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 5:30 PM; Lecture & dinner after Mass
11	Thu	Ss. Protus & Hyacinth, Mm	sp	R		Mass 9:00 AM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 8:30 AM
12	Fri	Most Holy Name of Mary	dm	W	A	Mass 6:00 PM; Rosary of Reparation & Confessions 5:30 PM
13	Sat	Out Lady’s Saturday	sp	W		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM
14	Sun	Exaltation of the Holy Cross 18^th Sunday after Pentecost	dm	R		Mass 9:00 AM; Confessions 8:00AM; Rosary of Reparation 8:30 AM

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

During the ages of faith, the Church (which is the only source of all true progress), succeeded in giving one common language to all the nations that were in union with her. For centuries, the Latin language was the bond of union between civilized countries. However distant these might be from one another, there was this link of connection between them; it was the medium of communication for political negotiations, for the spread of science, or for friendly epistolary correspondence. No one was a stranger, in any part of the west, or even beyond it, who could speak this language. The great heresy of the sixteenth century robbed us of this as of so many other blessings; it dismembered that Europe which the Church had united, not only by her faith, but by her language. Dom Gueranger, The Liturgical Year, Feast of Pentecost

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

The altar installed at our chapel

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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