SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806 EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS: Celebrant Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 28th, 2011 11th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: I Cor. 15:1-10
Gospel: Mk. 7:31-37
Mass schedule August 29th through September 2nd
Monday-Beheading of Saint John the Baptist-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin
Wednesday-Saint Raymond Nonnatus, Confessor-NO LATIN MASS
Thursday-Saint Giles, Confessor
Friday-Sacred Heart of Jesus
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
ON WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31ST THE BISHOP IS REQUIRING ALL PRIESTS TO ATTEND A ROMAN MISSAL WORKSHOP FROM 11:00 AM UNTIL 4:30 PM. THIS WORKSHOP WILL INVOLVE REVIEWING THE NEW ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE ROMAN MISSAL.
Christ has done all things well. He made the deaf hear and the dumb to speak. He worked countless miracles during His public ministry. Despite all His great works we should marvel even more at His infinite humility, and not His humility as man, but rather as God. For God to be good, holy and merciful is not a virtue, but rather His very nature. Humility is only a virtue. God cannot exalt Himself above what He is as the most high Being, but He can humble Himself:
“Though He was in the form of God, Jesus did not regard equality with God something to be grasped. Rather, He emptied Himself, taking the form of a slave, coming in human likeness, and found human in appearance” (Phil. 2:6-7). No greater example of humility can be given than that of the Only Son of God when “the Word was made Flesh.” “In the beginning was the Word.” “And the Word was made Flesh.”
In order for us to live this necessary humility we must learn to fear the justice of God. This holy fear is the beginning of wisdom and the beginning of true humility. “Where humility is, there is also wisdom” (Prov. 11:2).
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Saturday, August 27, 2011
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Bulletin 64
SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806 EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS: Celebrant Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 21st, 2011 10th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: I Cor. 12: 2-11
Gospel: Lk. 18: 9-14
Mass schedule August 22nd through August 26th
Monday-Immaculate Heart of Mary-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Philip Benizi, Confessor
Wednesday-Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
Thursday-Saint Louis IX, King
Friday-Saint Zephyrinus, Pope & Martyr
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
Examine yourself well and figure out whether or not you have true humility. If you do not, you should do everything in your power to attain it because without it you cannot enter into heaven. Jesus says: “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.” Christ gives us the power to imitate His humility. A whole multitude of things are worthy of imitation when it comes to our Lord, but He only asks us to imitate His humility.
Christ abased Himself before the Majesty of His Father in heaven. He has taken on the form of a servant. He has willed to be thought of as the lowest of men, a man of sorrow. Christ has taken upon Himself the sins of all men. If Christ has thus been justly treated for having taken on Himself the sins of others, what has he not deserved who committed the sin?
Is it not fitting that we should always strive to embrace the virtue of humility? We must keep our hearts contrite and humble before God. We cannot attribute to ourselves any talent, success, or any good work. Above all, we must not pride ourselves on being elevated to the great dignity of baptized and confirmed Catholic Christians. We have received this great gift without payment of price.
“Learn from Me, because I am meek and humble of heart and you shall find rest for your soul.”
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 21st, 2011 10th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: I Cor. 12: 2-11
Gospel: Lk. 18: 9-14
Mass schedule August 22nd through August 26th
Monday-Immaculate Heart of Mary-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Philip Benizi, Confessor
Wednesday-Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
Thursday-Saint Louis IX, King
Friday-Saint Zephyrinus, Pope & Martyr
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
Examine yourself well and figure out whether or not you have true humility. If you do not, you should do everything in your power to attain it because without it you cannot enter into heaven. Jesus says: “Learn of Me, because I am meek and humble of heart.” Christ gives us the power to imitate His humility. A whole multitude of things are worthy of imitation when it comes to our Lord, but He only asks us to imitate His humility.
Christ abased Himself before the Majesty of His Father in heaven. He has taken on the form of a servant. He has willed to be thought of as the lowest of men, a man of sorrow. Christ has taken upon Himself the sins of all men. If Christ has thus been justly treated for having taken on Himself the sins of others, what has he not deserved who committed the sin?
Is it not fitting that we should always strive to embrace the virtue of humility? We must keep our hearts contrite and humble before God. We cannot attribute to ourselves any talent, success, or any good work. Above all, we must not pride ourselves on being elevated to the great dignity of baptized and confirmed Catholic Christians. We have received this great gift without payment of price.
“Learn from Me, because I am meek and humble of heart and you shall find rest for your soul.”
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Bulletin 63
SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806 EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS: Celebrant Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 14th, 2011 9th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: I Cor. 10: 6-13
Gospel: Lk. 19: 41-47
Mass schedule August 15th through August 19th
Monday-Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wednesday-Saint Hyacinth, Confessor
Thursday-Saint Agapitus, Martyr
Friday-Saint John Eudes, Confessor
If you wish to have a Mass offered for a particular intention or person you must see me first.
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
While the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation, in the United States the obligation to attend Mass is abrogated this year because the Feast falls on a Monday. I encourage all who are able to attend Mass, however, THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION.
We will have a pot-luck dinner immediately following Mass in the Saint Agnes school cafeteria on Sunday, August 14th. All are invited to attend.
In the Gospel Jesus Christ says My house will be a house of prayer! You, who are faithful to Christ, welcome Him into your soul. Let Christ rest in you and find comfort for the many deceits that are practiced on His Heart. You are always with Christ and all that He has is yours. He takes delight in you; you are His home, His temple. Meditate often upon the mystery of love which envelops you and penetrates your every faculty.
Blessed is he who walks in truth. Blessed is he who understands that the kingdom of God is within himself, and who participates in everlasting life. Man does not understand the things of God. He is absorbed in the world of the senses, which is only a deceitful sham, a veil concealing the realities beyond. But you at least, a faithful son of Christ, should keep Him as your guest in your inmost soul. Be united with Him as the members are united together in the body, as the branches are united to the vine.
You live, no, not you, it is Christ Who lives in you by His grace. That grace is a participation in the Divine Nature. It has sanctified His humanity and He shares it with all those who love Him. Christ’s grace penetrates to the very essence of your soul, ennobling it and making it divine. Christ is thus with you as a new being, the Christian man, together you have one and same principle twofold activity, namely to pray and to love.
All that you do in union with Christ proceeds from you and from Him as from one and the same cause. Thus He continues to live on earth, and to work and to extend His kingdom to the end of time, through each of His faithful sons. All your trials borne with Christ’s help are yours together, for you two are but one. Thus Christ continues His Passion on earth. Every soul that suffers in patience helps Christ to fill up that which is still wanting in His life as victim.
Together you glorify the Father, you thank Him, you love Him; together in heaven you will sit at His right hand and you will enjoy the same happiness. Christ’s son, He has been with you a long time and yet you scarcely know Him. He invites you again today to rejoice lovingly at your union with Him by grace and through Him with the most Holy Trinity. Enter into yourself by a simple movement of your intelligence and of your will. You need not force your imagination or your feelings.
God is Spirit and He wishes to be adored in spirit and in truth. What happy hours you will spend together if you will but learn to do His will; what secrets He will whisper to you to make you holy and successful in all your endeavors! The three Divine Persons will dwell in you, for He has given you His grace. They have made heaven within you and They live in you Their infinitely happy life.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 14th, 2011 9th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: I Cor. 10: 6-13
Gospel: Lk. 19: 41-47
Mass schedule August 15th through August 19th
Monday-Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Joachim, Father of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Wednesday-Saint Hyacinth, Confessor
Thursday-Saint Agapitus, Martyr
Friday-Saint John Eudes, Confessor
If you wish to have a Mass offered for a particular intention or person you must see me first.
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
While the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a holy day of obligation, in the United States the obligation to attend Mass is abrogated this year because the Feast falls on a Monday. I encourage all who are able to attend Mass, however, THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTION.
We will have a pot-luck dinner immediately following Mass in the Saint Agnes school cafeteria on Sunday, August 14th. All are invited to attend.
In the Gospel Jesus Christ says My house will be a house of prayer! You, who are faithful to Christ, welcome Him into your soul. Let Christ rest in you and find comfort for the many deceits that are practiced on His Heart. You are always with Christ and all that He has is yours. He takes delight in you; you are His home, His temple. Meditate often upon the mystery of love which envelops you and penetrates your every faculty.
Blessed is he who walks in truth. Blessed is he who understands that the kingdom of God is within himself, and who participates in everlasting life. Man does not understand the things of God. He is absorbed in the world of the senses, which is only a deceitful sham, a veil concealing the realities beyond. But you at least, a faithful son of Christ, should keep Him as your guest in your inmost soul. Be united with Him as the members are united together in the body, as the branches are united to the vine.
You live, no, not you, it is Christ Who lives in you by His grace. That grace is a participation in the Divine Nature. It has sanctified His humanity and He shares it with all those who love Him. Christ’s grace penetrates to the very essence of your soul, ennobling it and making it divine. Christ is thus with you as a new being, the Christian man, together you have one and same principle twofold activity, namely to pray and to love.
All that you do in union with Christ proceeds from you and from Him as from one and the same cause. Thus He continues to live on earth, and to work and to extend His kingdom to the end of time, through each of His faithful sons. All your trials borne with Christ’s help are yours together, for you two are but one. Thus Christ continues His Passion on earth. Every soul that suffers in patience helps Christ to fill up that which is still wanting in His life as victim.
Together you glorify the Father, you thank Him, you love Him; together in heaven you will sit at His right hand and you will enjoy the same happiness. Christ’s son, He has been with you a long time and yet you scarcely know Him. He invites you again today to rejoice lovingly at your union with Him by grace and through Him with the most Holy Trinity. Enter into yourself by a simple movement of your intelligence and of your will. You need not force your imagination or your feelings.
God is Spirit and He wishes to be adored in spirit and in truth. What happy hours you will spend together if you will but learn to do His will; what secrets He will whisper to you to make you holy and successful in all your endeavors! The three Divine Persons will dwell in you, for He has given you His grace. They have made heaven within you and They live in you Their infinitely happy life.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Friday, August 5, 2011
Bulletin 62
SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806 EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS: Celebrant Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 7th, 2011 8th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: Rom. 8: 12-17
Gospel: Lk 16: 1-9
Mass schedule August 8th through August 12th
Monday-Saint John Mary Vianney-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Vigil of Saint Lawrence, Martyr-NO LATIN MASS
Wednesday-Saint Lawrence, Martyr
Thursday-Saint Tiburtius, Martyr
Friday-Saint Clair, Virgin
THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th
If you wish to have a Mass offered for a particular intention or person you must see me first.
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
God has given us talents which we must go and make productive. These precious talents are the days of our lives. If we spend our short lives profitably, we will enjoy an eternity of glory and happiness. If we misuse this gift of our life, we will endure an eternity of shame. God has placed before us water and fire. We must choose. Before us are life and death, good and evil. Whichever we wish will be given to us. If we bury our talents in the earth, we will lose our souls.
Make careful use of the gift of God. Behold now is the acceptable time. Now is the day of salvation! God will soon come upon us and then we shall have to render an account of the use of every moment of our lives! Blessed shall you be if in the fulfillment of your daily duties you have been faithful in little things. But what disaster it will be if God finds you wasting the goods of His house!
Do not seek rest here below. When time shall be no more we shall take our rest together in the bosom of God. Satan knows no rest. He pursues with fury each one of us, knowing that there remains to him but little time. The wicked are mad in their desire to destroy souls, to dechristianize society, to uproot the family, to sow everywhere hatred of God’s holy name. How can we give ourselves over to sloth, or take our ease, to think of leisure for ourselves or to indulge in useless pastimes?
The parable of the unjust steward reminds us of our duty not to be outdone by the children of this world in zeal.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Sincerely in Christ,
August 7th, 2011 8th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: Rom. 8: 12-17
Gospel: Lk 16: 1-9
Mass schedule August 8th through August 12th
Monday-Saint John Mary Vianney-NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Vigil of Saint Lawrence, Martyr-NO LATIN MASS
Wednesday-Saint Lawrence, Martyr
Thursday-Saint Tiburtius, Martyr
Friday-Saint Clair, Virgin
THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 9th
If you wish to have a Mass offered for a particular intention or person you must see me first.
The website for the Latin Mass Community has been upgraded to include a mobile version for iPhones, BlackBerrys and other smart phones. Information, bulletins and updates for the Latin Mass Community will now be easily accessible and easily readable on these devices. The website remains the same.
God has given us talents which we must go and make productive. These precious talents are the days of our lives. If we spend our short lives profitably, we will enjoy an eternity of glory and happiness. If we misuse this gift of our life, we will endure an eternity of shame. God has placed before us water and fire. We must choose. Before us are life and death, good and evil. Whichever we wish will be given to us. If we bury our talents in the earth, we will lose our souls.
Make careful use of the gift of God. Behold now is the acceptable time. Now is the day of salvation! God will soon come upon us and then we shall have to render an account of the use of every moment of our lives! Blessed shall you be if in the fulfillment of your daily duties you have been faithful in little things. But what disaster it will be if God finds you wasting the goods of His house!
Do not seek rest here below. When time shall be no more we shall take our rest together in the bosom of God. Satan knows no rest. He pursues with fury each one of us, knowing that there remains to him but little time. The wicked are mad in their desire to destroy souls, to dechristianize society, to uproot the family, to sow everywhere hatred of God’s holy name. How can we give ourselves over to sloth, or take our ease, to think of leisure for ourselves or to indulge in useless pastimes?
The parable of the unjust steward reminds us of our duty not to be outdone by the children of this world in zeal.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Sincerely in Christ,
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