St. John Henry Newman, pray for us!

18th Sunday after Pentecost 13 October 2019 18th Sunday after Pentecost 13 October 2019

Rev. Msgr. James T. Byrnes, Pastor Rectory (Friday-Monday): 484-480-4414 Priory (Tuesday-Thursday): 203-431-0201 ext.14 Email: j.byrnes@fsspx.email

Mr. Michael Sparks, Chapel Coordinator Tel. 856-223-0741

Mr. James Hayes, Chapel Treasurer

Mr. Gregory Golm, Choir Director

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Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Friday 7 PM Saturday 9 AM Sunday 8 AM (Low Mass) 10 AM (Sung Mass) Monday 10 AM

Confessions Approximately 45 minutes before the start of Mass (except Monday)

Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament 3rd Sunday of the month following the 10 AM Mass.

St. Jude Roman Catholic Church

Society of St. Pius X 1402 E. 10th Street, Eddystone, PA 19022

They may fraternise together in spiritual thoughts and feelings, without having any views at all of doctrine in common, or seeing the need of them. Since, then, religion is so personal a peculiarity and so private a possession, we must of necessity ignore it in the intercourse of man with man. If a man puts on a new religion every morning, what is that to you? It is as impertinent to think about a man's religion as about his sources of income or his management of his family. Religion is in no sense the bond of society. Another reason for seeing in Newman a model for our time is his perennial search for the Truth. this search eventually led him to the Catholic Church, but at great personal sacrifice. Many in his family disowned him at his conversion and the majority of his friends and colleagues wanted nothing more to do with him. Additionally, he lost his teaching position at Oxford. Amongst the general public, he was thought a traitor by Anglicans and an infiltrator (sent by the Anglicans to destroy the Catholic Church in England) by Catholics. Many a traditional Catholic have had to deal with the same rejection by friends and loved ones in their search for the traditional Faith. Unfortunately in the decades following the Second Vatican Council, many theologians began stating that Vatican II was “Newman’s Council” in that they tried to ascribe to Newman’s thought the novelties brought forward in the Council documents (particularly in the areas of ecumenism and religious liberty). Additionally, they used Newman’s work On the Development of Doctrine to justify the introduction of teaching which ran contrary to the perennial Magisterium of the Church. This essay of Newman’s makes it abundantly clear that development of doctrine is the Church gaining greater insight into the mysteries of our Faith through the guidance of the Holy Ghost. Newman rejects completely the notion that a development can go contrary to previous teaching of the Church. Those theologians who try and imply otherwise are ignorant of Newman’s teaching at best, or are intentionally misrepresenting Newman for their own justification at worst. Newman asked that the phrase Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem (Out of shadows and phantasms into the truth) be placed on his gravestone, which he clearly saw as epitomizing his entire life.

18th Sunday after Pentecost 13 October 2019 18th Sunday after Pentecost 13 October 2019

SANCTUARY LAMP INTENTION

Week of October 6th: Dr. Paul E. Oberdorfer Jr.

Please contact Victoria Foley at 215-380-5168 if you would like to place an intention.

STATUE OF OUR LADY

Month of October: The Brown Family

Please contact Janine Mullen at 215-804-5517 if you would like to host Our Lady.

Thank you again to all those who were able to help with the church cleaning last Saturday.

As many know, Blessed John Henry Newman is being canonized by Pope Francis today (13 October) (A great irony in that Newman would have been in complete disagreement with all of the “novelties” being foisted upon the Church by Francis). In honor of the occasion, prayer cards are available at the doors of the church. Please feel free to take one home.

One of our long time parishioners, Mr. Rich Scattergood currently resides in Saunders House, a nursing home. He always enjoys having a visit from St. Jude parishioners. Please consider performing this corporal work of mercy. The Saunders House address is: 100 E Lancaster Ave, Wynnewood, PA 19096 (across from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary).

Thank you to all who contributed to the Gregorian Mass collection for Chris Ruhl. The Masses will begin to be offered in November.

Some thoughts on the canonization of Cardinal John Henry Newman by Msgr. Byrnes

Since 1983, following the promulgation of Pope John Paul II’s Apostolic Constitution Divinis Perfectionis Magister, the process for canonization has been called into question, along with a questioning of a good number of those canonized under the new procedures (most notably, all the post Vatican II popes). This questioning had become so prolific at the time of Paul VI’s canonization in 2018, that the theological question of whether canonizations are infallible acts received much attention (there are reliable theological opinions on both sides of the question). Unfortunately, this means that the legitimacy of all post 1983 canonizations have been called into question, even those whose reputation for sanctity is well attested to (one need only to think of Saints Padre Pio, Damien of Molokai and Katherine Drexel to name just a few). It is for this reason that the announcement that Blessed John Henry Newman is to be raised to the glory of the altars on 13 October is bittersweet. Bitter since the legitimacy of the canonization can be called into question because of the new process and sweet because Newman’s reputation for sanctity and his theological brilliance have long been noted well before Vatican II. John Henry Newman was born in London, England on 21 February 1801 and died in Birmingham, England on 11 August 1890. An excellent student, he eventually studied at Trinity College, Oxford. Desiring to remain at Oxford as a teacher, he was elected to a fellowship (professorship in American terminology) at Oriel College, Oxford. At the same time, he became an Anglican clergyman and was effectively the leader of the Oxford Movement which sought to bring back more Catholic practices to the Anglican church. As Newman read more and more of the works of the Fathers of the Church and studied the history of the early Church (particularly the Arian crisis) he became more and more convinced that the Roman Catholic Church was the only true Church and that Anglicanism, though it retained some Catholic external practices, was just another Protestant false religion. Newman was received into the Catholic Church on 9 October 1845. In 1846, after traveling to Rome, he was ordained a Catholic priest (of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri) and received the academic degree of Doctor of Divinity from Pope Pius IX. Upon his return to England, he founded the Oratory in Birmingham, along with an Oratory School (one of the many notable graduates of the school was J.R.R. Tolkien). All during this time, he continued to write and give lectures on education as well as delivering powerful sermons. Interestingly, at the time of the First Vatican Council, Newman stated that he was uneasy about the formal declaration of papal infallibility, not because he did not believe it, but rather because he thought it would give rise to what is called in our day “popalatry” (an idea that all things the pope says and does are effectively infallible). He was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Leo XIII on 12 May 1879 and died in Birmingham of pneumonia at the age of 89. Newman is indeed a saint for our times for a number of reasons. The first and most obvious is his rejection and strong critique of liberalism (the basic tenets of which St. Pius X will name modernism in his encyclical Pascendi) throughout his entire life. His Biglietto Speech (a short speech given by a new cardinal upon the official notification of his being raised to the College) summed up clearly the dangers of liberalism. Newman stated: For thirty, forty, fifty years I have resisted to the best of my powers the spirit of liberalism in religion. Never did Holy Church need champions against it more sorely than now, when, alas! it is an error overspreading, as a snare, the whole earth; and on this great occasion, when it is natural for one who is in my place to look out upon the world, and upon Holy Church as in it, and upon her future, it will not, I hope, be considered out of place, if I renew the protest against it which I have made so often. Liberalism in religion is the doctrine that there is no positive truth in religion, but that one creed is as good as another, and this is the teaching which is gaining substance and force daily. It is inconsistent with any recognition of any religion, as true. It teaches that all are to be tolerated, for all are matters of opinion. Revealed religion is not a truth, but a sentiment and a taste; not an objective fact, not miraculous; and it is the right of each individual to make it say just what strikes his fancy. Devotion is not necessarily founded on faith. Men may go to Protestant Churches and to Catholic, may get good from both and belong to neither. continued on back page…

MASSES FOR THE UPCOMING WEEK

Friday, 18 October: St. Luke, Evangelist Saturday, 19 October: St. Peter of Alcantara, Confessor Sunday, 20 October: 19th Sunday after Pentecost Monday, 21 October: St. Hilarion, Abbot