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.

The Transfiguration by Pietro Perugino, c. 1500

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Temporary Administrator: Rev. Fr. Joseph Lee, FSSP

Assistant Pastor: Rev. Fr. David Kemna, FSSP

Office: 602-253-6090 Fax: 602-253-8013 Church/Mail: 1537 W. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Temporary Cell: 402-570-2707 Temporary Email: emailjlee@gmail.com Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org

Notitiæ August 3, 2014

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Eighth Sunday after Pentecost, Class II, Green Romans 8: 12-17; St. Luke 16: 1-9

Intentions:

7:00am Low Mass; 9:00am Low Mass; 11:00am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission 7:00 am: Anna Nadachapam; 9:00 am: Pro Populo; 11:00 am: Aleyamma George

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-Friday: 6:30 am and 6:30 pm, Saturday: 6:30 am and 8:00 am

Monday, August 4 Thursday, August 7

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Dominic Confessor, Class III, White

2 Timothy 4: 1-8

St. Luke 12: 35-40 6:30am: William De Nault +

6:30pm: William De Nault +

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Cajetan Confessor, Class III, White

Ecclesiasticus 31: 8-11

St. Matthew 6: 24-33 6:30am: William De Nault + 6:30pm: William De Nault +

Tuesday, August 5 Friday, August 8

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

The Dedication of St. Mary Major Class III, White

Ecclesiasticus 24: 14-16

St. Luke 11: 27-28 6:30am: William De Nault +

6:30pm: William De Nault +

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. John Mary Vianney Confessor, Class III, White

Ecclesiasticus 31: 8-11

St. Luke 12: 35-40 6:30am: William De Nault +

6:30pm: William De Nault +

Wednesday, August 6 Saturday, August 9

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

The Transfiguration of Our Lord

Class II, White 2 Peter 1: 16-19

St. Matthew 17: 1-9 6:30am: William De Nault + 6:30pm: William De Nault +

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Saturday of Our Lady Class IV, White

Ecclesiasticus 24: 14-16

St. Luke 11: 27-28 6:30am: Confraternity of St. Peter

8:00am: Katherine Pratscher

Confessions At MMM Monroe St. Church: Mon-Sat: 30 minutes before each Mass. Saturdays: 3:30-4:30 pm.

Sundays: Before the 7am Mass, between the 7am, 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.

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Special Potluck Today: Mr. and

Mrs. Tom and Amy Walker would like to speak and visit with the friends and parishioners of their recently de-

ceased son, Father Kenneth Walker, in the parish hall of Mater Miseri-

cordiae Mission following the 11:00 AM Sung Mass today. A potluck will be served. All are welcome.

Dish Pick-up: Fr. Lee would like to thank those who

have prepared and delivered food over the past few

weeks. There will be a box with dishes for pick-up near the parish hall entrance.

Latin Class: Fr. Lee also thanks those who have

attended the night Latin intensive classes. We will be continuing the strenuous pace on Tuesday and Thurs-

day evenings following the 6:30 PM Mass.

Daily Mass Stipend Hold: Please note that the

priests at Mater Misericordie Mission have a sufficient

number of stipends to fulfill at this time.

Pro-Life Rosary: Fr. Lee and Fr. Kemna would like

to continue Fr. Terra and Fr. Walker’s steadfast prac-tice of praying outside the abortion clinic on Monday and Thursday mornings. Please join us if you are able to attend. The Rosary will be from 9am-10am at the

Glendale Planned Parenthood site located at 5771 W. Eugie.

Parish Directory: All families and single members

that regularly attend the Mission are encouraged to participate, so that our parish can have more coher-

ency, and so that the members can get to know each other better. There is a form for this in the back of the church, along with the Parish Registration Form. If you are interested and are a regular parishioner, please

follow the instructions on the form. The Knights of Co-lumbus of our parish are taking over this project for Fr. Kenneth Walker +.

Knight at the Ballpark: The Knights of Columbus

of our parish will host a “Knight at the Ballpark” on Au-gust 30th at 5:10 PM when the Arizona Diamondbacks

play the Colorado Rockies. The seating will be together in an Upper Level Infield section. The tickets are avail-able for a reduced rate of $14 per seat. Please contact Ted Brennan at 602-882-3838 by August 10th to place your order.

Book Seminar: Fr. Lee will be leading a discussion

on Saturday, August 9, starting at 6:00 PM at the home of Andrew and Laura Ellison. The work to be pre-pared for discussion is Josef Pieper’s Leisure: The Basis

of Culture. Please contact Andrew Ellison at 602-614-0315 or ellisonvpa@yahoo.com to RSVP by August 7.

FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS

August 3: Fr. Joseph Terra August 4: Fr. Zachary Akers August 5: Fr. Eric Flood, District Superior August 6: Fr. John Rickert August 7: Very Rev. John Berg,

Superior General August 8: Fr. Daniel Heenan August 9: Fr. Jonathan Romanoski

SUNDAY COLLECT. Grant to us, O Lord, we beseech Thee, the spirit to think and do always such things as are right; that we

who can not exist without Thee, may be able to live ac-cording to Thy will. Through our Lord.

SUNDAY EPISTLE: Romans 8: 12-17 Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live ac-cording to the flesh; for if you live according to the flesh, you shall die; but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live. For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For you

have not received the spirit of bondage again in fear, but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father). For the Spirit Himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God; and if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God, and joint heirs with Christ. ..

SUNDAY GOSPEL: St. Luke 16: 1-9

At that time, Jesus spoke to His disciples this parable: There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his

goods; and he called him, and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stew-ardship, for now thou canst be steward no longer. And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, be-cause my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To.dig I am not able: to beg I am ashamed. I know

what I will do, that when I shall be put out of the stew-ardship, they may receive me into their houses. There-fore calling together every one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? But he said: A hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write

fifty. Then he said to another: And how much dost thou

owe? Who said: A hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill, and write eighty. And the lord commended the unjust steward, for as much as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light. And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity, that when you shall fail, they may receive you into ev-

erlasting dwellings.

Give an account of thy stewardship.

A Few Words with Fr. Lee

During the past weeks, I've had the pleasure of personally training some of the new altar boys here at Mater Miseri-

cordiae. Usually, at the seminary, the training of serving rubrics is delegated to the seminarians.

I enjoy teaching the new altar boys how to serve. This opportunity, both for the altar boy and the priest, is a spe-

cific grace, to receive and hand over respectively, the fundamental principles of the Faith that will remain and, God

Willing, develop for future years to come. Every once in a while, the priest will meet a man on the street who

proudly says, "I used to be an Altar Boy. I used to serve Mass." Even those men who seemingly and deliberately

have wandered off the strait and narrow path of Religion, fondly remember the dignity of an altar boy and that when

they themselves were serving at the altar many years ago, they were doing something good, pure and holy at the

time.

A practical sign of our parish's health is the quantity and quality of its altar boys. This, in turn, shows the commit-

ment of parents and the mindset of the priest who both share and want, all the various activities of the parish, to

revolve around and receive their impetus and energy from this virile Latin Mass.

If you want Priests, work for Altar Boys. If we want to fill our seminaries again, we don't need more campaigns,

more social media initiatives or even more second collections. A parish doing its best to cultivate as many good and

healthy altar boys who love serving Mass, with everything it signifies, is collaborating in the best way possible with

Our Lord to form a strong pool of future fathers, of which, some will be priests, by the grace of God.

PAX

Father Joseph Lee, FSSP

emailjlee@gmail.com, 402-570-2707

August 6.—THE TRANSFIGURATION OF OUR LORD.

OUR divine Redeemer, being in Galilee about a year before His sacred Passion, took with Him St. Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, Sts. James and John, and led them to a retired mountain. Tradition assures us that this was Mount Thabor, which is exceedingly high and beautiful, and was anciently covered with green trees and shrubs, and was

very fruitful. It rises something like a sugar-loaf, in a vast plain in the middle of Galilee. This was the place in which the Man-God appeared in His glory. Whilst Jesus prayed, He suffered that glory which was always due to His sacred humility, and of which, for our sake, He deprived it, to diffuse a ray over His whole body. His face was altered and shone as the sun, and His garments became white as snow. Moses and Elias were seen by the three apostles in His company on this occasion, and were heard discoursing with Him of the death which He was to suffer in Jerusalem. The three apostles were wonderfully delighted with this glorious vision, and St. Peter cried out to Christ, "Lord, it is good for us to be here. Let us make three tents: one for Thee, one for Moses, and one for Elias" Whilst St. Peter was

speaking, there came, on a sudden, a bright shining cloud from heaven, an emblem of the presence of God's maj-esty, and from out of this cloud was heard a voice which said, "This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased; hear ye Him" The apostles that were present, upon hearing this voice, were seized with a sudden fear, and fell upon the ground; but Jesus, going to them, touched them, and bade them to rise. They immediately did so, and saw no one but Jesus standing in his ordinary state. This vision happened in the night. As they went down the mountain early the next morning, Jesus bade them not to tell any one what they had seen till He should be risen from the dead.

Reflection.—From the contemplation of this glorious mystery we ought to conceive a true idea of future happiness; if this once possess our souls, we will think nothing of any difficulties or labors we can meet with here, but regard

with great indifference all the goods and evils of this life, provided we can but secure our portion in the kingdom of God's glory.

Lives of the Saints, by Alban Butler, Benziger Bros. ed. [1894], at sacred-texts.com