volume 1, issue 10 ss. tryphon & companions, mm our lady
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Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel
25th Sunday after Pentecost St. Andrew Avellino, C Ss. Tryphon & Companions, Mm
Our Lady of the Rosary
15 Pepper Street Monroe CT 06468
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Fr. Adan Rodriguez (Pastor)
HOLY MASS
Sundays: 7:00 & 10:00 am Weekdays: 7:00 & 8:00 am
CONFESSIONS
Sundays 6:40—6:55 am 9:15—9:55 am
Weekdays 6:40—6:55am
And by appointment
HOLY ROSARY
Sundays: 9:40 am First Saturdays: 8:45 am
November 10, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 10
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today November is the month of the Holy Souls. Last week we commemorated all the
souls of the faithful departed in the three Requiems of All Souls Day, we spent
our time going in and out of church, making visit after visit to gain the plenary
indulgences for our departed loved ones, and they are grateful to you today for
grasping that all too short opportunity and for the efforts you made to alleviate
their suffering in Purgatory.
This week we turn our attention to those who laid down their life for their coun-
try. Those of our armed forces, the dearest and the best of this land, who gave
the ultimate sacrifice in the service of their nation. Not just of this country, but
patriotic men and women from every land, who gave up their life for their
homeland. On this Sunday closest to the anniversary of the end of hostilities at
the end of the First World War, we commemorate the Fallen. Throughout the
world today, on this Remembrance Sunday, the living gather around the ceno-
taphs and the war memorials, and lay wreaths in memory, lest we forget. In this
country, it is the custom to keep these observances in the month of May, on
Memorial Day. Here in the United States, November 11, tomorrow, is instead
given over to Veterans Day, when we give thanks for all the men and women
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DATE FEAST TIME INTENTION
Sun Nov 10 25th Sunday after Pentecost
St. Andrew Avellino, C
St. Tryphon & Companions, Mm
G
7:00 am
10:00 am
James Dolan
Missa pro Populo
Mon Nov 11 St. Martin of Tours, BC
St. Mennas, M
W
7:00 am
8:00 am
Ellen Hall
Thomas Monks, RIP
Tue Nov 12 St. Martin I, PM
R
7:00 am
8:00 am
Megan Keaveney
Isaura & Ray Abed
Wed Nov 13 St. Didacus, C
W
7:00 am
8:00 am
Bree Keaveney
Ramon Vallarta, RIP
Thu Nov 14 St. Josaphat, BM
R
7:00 am
8:00 am
Megan Keaveney
Rosemarie Unson, RIP
Fri Nov 15 St. Albert the Great, BCD
W
7:00 am
8:00 am
Bree Keaveney
Angel Araneta, RIP
Sat Nov 16 St. Gertrude the Great, V
W
7:00 am
8:00 am
Noel Vansevenandt, RIP
Catholic Family Salvation Society
Sun Nov 17 26th Sunday after Pentecost
St. Gregory the Wonderworker, BC
G
7:00 am
10:00 am
Special Intentions of Carol Despres
Missa pro Populo
CALENDAR
MASS TODAY
25th Sunday after Pentecost (5th after Epiphany)
2nd Collect: St. Andrew Avellino, C
3rd Collect: St. Tryphon & Com-panions
Preface: Trinity
MASS NEXT SUNDAY
26th Sunday after Pentecost (6th after Epiphany)
2nd Collect: St. Gregory the Wonderworker, C
3rd Collect: All Saints
Preface: Trinity
Please submit your Mass requests to
Father Rodriguez via e-mail or in per-
son, specifying the intention, whether
the person is living or deceased, and if
a specific date is required.
To pray for the living and the dead is a
spiritual work of mercy. Remember
your loved ones by having a Mass said
for their intentions.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Schedule Changes
Weekday Masses are all at
their usual time of 7:00 and
8:00 am this week.
Fundraising Committee
The Fundraising Committee
will be having its first
meeting after the 10:00
today. If you signed up to
help on this committee,
please join us downstairs to
discuss our plans for future
projects.
Second Collection
The monthly second collec-
tion will be taken at both
Masses next Sunday.
We Gave Our Today… (continued)
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who served in our armed forc-
es, and who survived, who
came home. To them, on be-
half of all the rest of us who
live in freedom and comfort
today because of their sacrific-
es then, I offer our humble
gratitude. Lest we forget. But
let us join our veterans today in
remembering also those who
were left behind on those
battlefields of Europe and the
Pacific. They have a message today for our veterans to pass on to us, a somber
reminder of their sacrifice, their ultimate sacrifice. To those who survived, the
Fallen cry out:
When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say,
For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today.
And in the Ode of Remembrance For the Fallen, recited today at churches, ceme-
teries, and cenotaphs across the globe, we join in acknowledging their sacrifice
and vow never to forget:
They went with songs to the battle, they were young.
Straight of limb, true of eyes, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We will remember them.
On the roads of Europe in 1914 and during the four bloody years that followed,
over a billion men, dressed in the uniforms of the armies of the various nations,
marched to war. Over 13 million would never return. At first they marched with
heads held high, filled
with the stirring music of
military bands and bag-
pipes, with the propagan-
da of the nationalist
cause, ready, if necessary
to sacrifice their lives for
their country, but with
little thought of how
much suffering that sacri-
fice would truly cost. The
Allied Powers marched
eastward, confident that
it would be a “piece of
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ble items for our Christmas
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will take place on Saturday,
November 30, right after
Thanksgiving. Please see
Mary Mendes and Elizabeth
Bouton for more infor-
mation. We rely on your
efforts and generosity to
make this important event
in our annual parish life a
big success.
Choir Practice
Our weekly choir practice
will be held as usual at 4:00
pm on Friday. We look for-
ward to welcoming new
members and starting work
on our Christmas services.
cake”, and that they would be in Berlin
within a few weeks. Meanwhile, the
Central Powers marched towards the
west, equally confident that they would
march straight to Paris.
But soon the two great armies met, and
within a few weeks, the pipe dreams of
the High Command of both sides were
shattered, as the movement of the
western front slowed down and finally
stopped in the terrible stalemate of
trench warfare. Like rats in mud-cased
disease-infested holes in the ground,
soldiers would live and learn to survive.
They would hear the bugle call to
attack, advance 30 yards, lose 20 or 30
men to the machine-gun fire and gas
attacks, and then hear the call to re-
treat, back to their trenches, another 20
or 30 men lost, and be back in the same
position they were in before. The num-
ber of casualties was unbearable and
the conditions beyond atrocious.
Gradually word got out to the new re-
cruits, and no longer were heads held
quite so high on that long march to-
wards the trenches. Confidence was
replaced by fear. There was a real
chance that they were marching to
their death. Can we imagine what was
going through the minds of these young
men as they trudged through the mud,
the air filled with the sound of artillery
fire gradually growing louder, the earth
shaking from the shells, the lingering
scent of poison gas and the overpower-
ing stench of blood and rotting corpses?
On such battlefield was that of Verdun,
where there took place the longest and
bloodiest battle of World War I. You
can still visit the war cemetery there
with its row after row of white crosses
stretching in every direction as far the
eye can see. Over 230,000 are buried
there, most of them unidentifiable and
forgotten. One can only imagine what
these poor fellows went through in the
days and weeks leading up to their ulti-
mate sacrifice. The road that led to
Verdun and along which they marched
to their deaths earned the title of the
Voie Sacrée, the Sacred Way. The road
is still there today, each mile echoing
the footsteps of the more than two
million French and German soldiers,
who trudged along it towards an un-
known fate. We can have only a vague
idea of their thoughts as they trudged
down the Voie Sacrée, so far from their
mothers, their wives and loved ones,
wondering if they would ever again see
their faces, or if they would ever again
be able to embrace them? What a mul-
titude of individual agonies was
suffered by these tremendous armies of
nations.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. It
is a sweet and honorable thing to die
for one’s country. Very easy for those
of us at home to mouth these noble
words, but as these men of Verdun
tried to grab a minute or two of terri-
fied sleep in their filthy, stinking, rat-
infested trenches, to the sound of shells
bursting around them, the screams of
the wounded and dying lying out there
in no-man’s land, the smell of burning
flesh, their thoughts were probably not
about how sweet and honorable this all
was. And yet they kept going, resolute,
gritting their teeth. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
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ANNOUNCEMENTS (cont.) We Gave Our Today... (continued)
tried to capture the heroic nobility of these men in his
famous poem:
I vow to thee, my country, all earthly things above,
Entire and whole and perfect, the service of my love;
The love that asks no question, the love that stands the
test,
That lays upon the altar the dearest and the best;
The love that never falters, the love that pays the price,
The love that makes undaunted the final sacrifice.
The men who came home, they know what it was like,
and after all that carnage, all that terrible loss of life,
they above all others appreciate what it is to be at
peace. We too though, need to understand what that
peace is, and that we must preserve it intact. “Let the
peace of God rule in your hearts,” says St. Paul in today’s
Epistle to the Colossians, “to the which also ye are called
in one body; and be ye thankful.”
For without Christ there can never be peace. Christ was
born in the silence of midnight in the bleak mid winter of
Bethlehem. “Glory to God in the highest,” sang the An-
gels at Bethlehem, “and peace on earth to men of good
will.” From the peace of that night, Our Lord grew up to
teach us that “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they
shall be called the children of God.” We have been re-
peating these Gospel words almost every day during this
octave of All Saints. And not only in the Beatitudes did
Christ preach the Gospel of Peace, but by his almost eve-
ry word, his miracles, and his example. And yet, amid
the ubiquitous presence of this message in the life of Our
Lord, there rings out a note now and again, as of a clari-
on call: “Think not,” reminded our divine Saviour, “that I
am come to bring peace on earth. I am come not to
bring peace but a sword.” What a stark reminder that
no matter how much we might try to keep the peace,
there are others sometimes who are equally determined
to wage war, sowing the seeds of hatred among God’s
people. And sometimes we have no choice but to fight
back. Not in the spirit of revenge, not refusing to turn
the other cheek, but always with charity, always ready to
forgive our enemies. But we have a moral responsibility
to defend those who depend on us, and this duty is as
natural as that of the mother bear protecting her cubs,
parents guarding their children from danger, and govern-
ments their people.
There is nothing more unnatural than the mother who
would destroy her own child. But in the larger scheme
of things, the government who would use its power
against the good of its own people is the same perversi-
ty. It must never be forgotten that the first duty of a
government is to protect the nation and its people. And
yet there are those who think nothing of sacrificing the
lives of our good men of the armed forces, of laying up-
on the altar the dearest and the best, for no better rea-
son than to make themselves more rich, more powerful.
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We Gave Our Today... (continued)
ALTAR SERVERS
Saturday, November 16
David Bouton
Sunday, November 17
10:00 High Mass
Celebrant: Fr. Rodriguez
MC: Dominic Gazy
Th: Nicholas Gazy
Ac1: Sam Richardson
Ac2: Albert Gazy
Cr: Gustav Kusterer
We Gave Our Today... (continued)
These same governments think nothing of laying upon the altar of Moloch the
blood of tens of thousands of the unborn. These are not the peacemakers. These
are they who would wage war most foul against the laws of God and of the good
nature he created. For them there can never be peace. And we are never sup-
posed to make peace with these powers of evil. For us, peace is what we must pro-
claim, like the angels of Bethlehem, to men of good will. But we must be ready to
defend ourselves and fight to the death against those who are not.
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Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel operates a thriving parish,
complete with full-time Catholic school for grades K through
12. Two Masses are offered daily, and various devotions
and other ceremonies are provided during the course of the
liturgical year. Our parish guilds offer wonderful opportuni-
ties to become more involved as your time and interests
permit. We are always looking for volunteers to serve
Mass, sing in the choir, or work in the church and on the
property and grounds. The enthusiastic participation of our
parishioners is one of the hallmarks of Our Lady of the Ro-
sary Chapel, and we welcome your support and talents.
Newcomers are particularly welcome, and we invite you to
introduce yourself to one of our priests. He will be able to
answer your questions concerning the traditional Latin Mass
and the crisis in the Catholic Church since Vatican II, and
guide you towards a fuller understanding of what your own
role should be in these difficult times in which we live.
Our aim is to preserve the truth and beauty of our Catholic
heritage. We invite all of you to participate in this our apos-
tolate, and in particular by becoming shining examples of
our true Faith by your everyday life, both spiritual and mor-
al. God calls us all to perfection, and our role is to answer
that call with all our love and enthusiasm. Come and be a
part of this work, which was founded not so much by good
Father Fenton in 1972, but by Our Lord Jesus Christ himself,
when he gave the keys of his kingdom to St. Peter. This is
none other than the Roman Catholic Church, and at Our
Lady of the Rosary Chapel we are proud to be an instrument
for its continuation, and the preservation of its Faith and
Liturgy.
Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel
Let us beg God for the wisdom to tell them apart,
the men of good will from those who would attack
God’s holy kingdom. But once we know where our
own battle lies (and for each of us this will be in
different places, different times, against different
enemies), once we are shown our path, then we
must march down our own Voie Sacrée, our Sacred
Way, the Road to our very own Verdun. We must
keep walking stedfastly on, fearful of the outcome
perhaps, but determined to lay down our lives for
our Saviour, our Redeemer, our King. If the men of
Verdun taught us any lesson at all, it is that Peace
comes at a price, and that price always represents
sacrifice, and often our lifeblood.
Whether your battle is against poverty, or life-threatening disease, against injustice or persecution, whether your
fight is with the temptations of the flesh or the spirit, or with the world and its vanities, or with the very devils of
hell, remember today the sacrifice of those who went before you. Remember the men of our army and navy, our
air force and marines, all those who laid down their life for God and Country.
How much more then, should we be ready and willing to offer ourselves as willing victims, ready to sacrifice our
time, our efforts, and if nec-
essary our very blood, for
him who is both our God
and our King, even our Lord
Jesus Christ. Let us offer to
him today all that we have,
all that we are, in his ser-
vice.
The hymn I vow to thee my
country, written by Sir Cecil
Spring-Rice, and which I
read to you earlier, has a
second verse, an even more
important verse. Let this be
etched on our minds as we
bravely resolve to follow
our destiny to the end of
our Voie Sacrée:
And there's another country, I've heard of long ago,
Most dear to them that love her, most great to them that know;
We may not count her armies, we may not see her King;
Her fortress is a faithful heart, her pride is suffering;
And soul by soul and silently her shining bounds increase,
And her ways are ways of gentleness, and all her paths are peace.
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We Gave Our Today… (continued)
As our Month of the Holy Souls continues, our pray-
ers are still very much focused on our dear depart-
ed, especially those
who were once members
of this parish and are
with us no longer. One
of the consolations of
our parish life is that
just as we pray and
sacrifice for those who
are gone, so too will
our parishioners of to-
morrow pray for us
when the time comes.
How blessed we are to
belong to this Commun-
ion of Saints.
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to the Mass schedule, spe-
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including our history, mis-
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ties, and school curriculum.
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and will help us by sending
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A Message from the Pastor
Fr. Adan Rodriguez
NOTICE TO NEWCOMERS Founded in 1973 in the wake of the disastrous Second Vatican Council, the mission of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel is to
maintain and restore as far as possible the traditional faith, values and liturgical practice of the Roman Catholic Church,
and to provide a haven of sanctity
where men and women of good
will may grow in love for God and
their neighbor.
Please don’t hesitate to introduce
yourself and ask questions. After
Mass come to the Social Hall, and
join us for coffee and refresh-
ments.
We welcome Spanish-speakers,
and confessions are heard in Span-
ish and English every Sunday and by appointment with the pastor.
We hope your visit with us is a pleasant one, and we look forward to seeing you again and welcoming you as a member of
Our Lady of the Rosary.