Feast of the Holy (October 7)

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Associate: Rev. Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP Office: 602-253-6090 Cell: 480-231-0573 (for urgent messages) Fax: 602-253-8013 Church: 1537 W. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mail: same as church address Email: [email protected] Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org Notitiæ October 6, 2013 Sunday Masses Propers: External Solemnity of Our Lady of the Rosary, Class II, White Readings: Proverbs 8:22-24, 32-35; Luke 1:26-38

9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission, Phoenix Intentions: 9:00 am: Juanita Applegate+; 11:00 am: Pro Populo 9:00 am Low Mass at Cecilia’s Mission, Clarkdale Intention: 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, October 7 Thursday, October 10 Propers: Our Lady of the Rosary Propers: St. Francis Borgia, Confessor Class II, White Class III, White Readings: Proverbs 8:22-24, 32-35 Readings: Ecclesiasticus 45:1-6 Luke 1:26-38 Matthew 19:27-29 Intentions: 6:30am: in Purgatory Intentions: 6:30am: Pandrea Family 6:30pm: Joan Marie Grosky 6:30pm: Wimberg Family Apart from the signal defeat of the Albigensian heretics at the battle of Muret in 1213 which was attributed to Tuesday, October 8 Friday, October 11 the recitation of the Rosary by St. Dominic, it is believed that Heaven has on many occasions rewarded the faith of those who had recourse to this devotion in times of special danger. More particularly, the naval victory Propers: St. Bridget of Sweden, Widow Propers: Motherhood of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Lepanto gained by Don John of Austria over the Turkish fleet on the first Sunday of October in 1571 re- Class III, White Class II, White Readings: Readings: sponded wonderfully to the processions made at Rome on that same day by the members of the Rosary con- I Timothy 5:3-10 Ecclesiasticus 24:23-31 Matthew 13:44-52 Luke 2:43-51 fraternity. St. Pius V thereupon ordered that a commemoration of the Rosary should be made upon that day, Intentions: 6:30am: Anonymous Benefactor Intentions: 6:30am: Riggs and Johnson Families+ and at the request of the Dominican Order Gregory XIII in 1573 allowed this feast to be kept in all churches 6:30pm: Wrublik Family 6:30pm: Altar Boys of MMM which possessed an altar dedicated to the Holy Rosary. In 1671 the observance of this festival was extended by Clement X to the whole of Spain, and somewhat later Clement XI after the important victory over the Turks Wednesday, October 9 Saturday, October 12 gained by Prince Eugene on 6 August, 1716 (the feast of our Lady of the Snows), at Peterwardein in Hungary, Propers: St. John Leonardi, Confessor Propers: Saturday of Our Lady commanded the feast of the Rosary to be celebrated by the universal Church. A set of "proper" lessons in the Class III, White Class IV, White second nocturn were conceded by Benedict XIII. Leo XIII has since raised the feast to the rank of a double of Readings: II Corinthians 4:1-6, 15-18 Readings: Ecclesiasticus 24:14-16 the second class and has added to the Litany of Loreto the invocation "Queen of the Most Holy Rosary". Luke 10:1-9 Luke 11:27-28 -Source: The Catholic Encyclopedia—www.newadvent.org Intentions: 6:30am: Hounsen Family Intentions: 6:30am: Johnson Family OUR MISSION STATEMENT 6:30pm: Sarah and Jeff Williams 8:00am: Melinda McDonald Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and Confessions charity through confession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in At MMM Monroe St. Church: Mon-Sat: 15 minutes before each Mass. Saturdays: 3:30-4:30 pm. the Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the Sundays: 8am, before the 9am Mass, between the 9am and 11am Masses, and after the 11am Mass. Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter. At St. Cecilia’s: Saturdays: 3-4 pm. Sundays: Before the 9am Mass. Other times by arrangement. SUNDAY COLLECT. PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS The Life of St. Bridget of Sweden

O God, Whose Only-Begotten Son, by His Life,  Next Sunday (October 14) the St. Bridget was daughter of Birger, a prince of the royal blood of Sweden, legislator of Death, and Resurrection, purchased for us the re- Komen Race will have much of Upland, and of Ingeburgis, daughter to Sigridis, a lady descended from the kings of the wards of eternal life; grant, we beseech Thee, that, the Phoenix Capital area blocked Goths. Both the parents spent their lives in fervent exercises of piety, and had a singular meditating upon these mysteries of the most holy off, so it will be difficult to have devotion to the sacred passion of Christ. Birger consecrated all Fridays in a special man- Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, we may imitate access to the Church. We will still ner to practices of penance, and never failed on that day to confess his sins, and receive what they contain, and obtain what they promise. have the usually scheduled the holy eucharist, endeavouring to put himself into such a disposition, as to be able to Masses (9am and 11am), but we Through Our Lord... bear patiently all the crosses that might befal him till the next Friday. Ingeburgis was not will have an additional Mass at 5:00pm for less devoutly inclined, but died soon after the birth of our saint, which happened in the those who could not make it to the earlier SUNDAY EPISTLE: Proverbs 8:22-24, 32-35 year 1304. Bridget was brought up by an aunt, who was a lady of singular piety. So Masses. strong and early was the grace of devotion with which God favoured her, that from her

The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, cradle all her views and desires tended only to piety, and in its exercises she found her  Also, our potluck this month will not be next before he made any thing from the beginning. I was greatest delight. No symptoms ever appeared in her of anger, spite, envy, jealousy, un- Sunday, due to the Rosary Celebration, but set up from eternity, and of old, before the earth towardness, or disobedience. instead will be on the Sunday following (on was made. The depths were not as yet, and I was In obedience to her father, when she was only sixteen years of age, she married October 20). already conceived. Now, therefore, ye children, hear Ulpho, prince of Nericia in Sweden, who was himself only eighteen. This pious couple me: blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear in- passed the first year after their marriage in continence, and having enrolled themselves  CCD begins next Sunday, October 13, except struction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is in the third Order of St. Francis, lived in their own house as if they had been in a regular for grades 9-12. These grades will begin two the man that heareth me, and that watcheth daily at and austere monastery. They afterwards had eight children, four boys, and four girls, weeks later. my gates, and waiteth at the posts of my doors. He who were all favoured with the blessings of divine grace. Benedict and Gudma dying in that shall find me, shall find life, and shall have sal- their infancy, left their parents secure of their happiness; Charles and Birger died in the  Arizona Rosary Celebration: vation from the Lord. holy war in Palestine; Margaret and Cecily served God faithfully in the married state; and The Arizona Rosary Celebration for Phoenix is next Indeburga and Catherine became nuns. The last was born in 1336, and died in 1381. Sunday, October 13, at the Phoenix Convention Center, She is honoured among the on the March 22. After the birth of these children, the SUNDAY GOSPEL: Luke 1:26-38 and will go from 2:00pm to 4:15pm. Since this is the parents, at the suggestion of St. Bridget, made a mutual vow of continency, and conse- At that time, the Angel Gabriel was sent from God same day as the anniversary of the of the Sun crated their estates more than ever to the use of the poor, whom they looked upon as their own family, and for whom into a city of Galilee, called Nazareth, To a virgin at Fatima, Pope Francis will consecrate the world to the they built an hospital, in which they served the sick with their own hands. Ulpho entered into the most perfect senti- espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the . Phoenix Program is 2:00- ments of virtue and penance, with which the example of his wife inspired him; and resigning his place in the king’s house of David: and the virgin's name was Mary. 4:15 p.m. Preprogram at 1:30 p.m. The Convention council, and renouncing the court, he imitated her in all her devotions. To break all worldly ties by forsaking their coun- And the angel being come in, said unto her: Hail, Center is at 3rd St. and Jefferson, Halls F & G. Rev. try and friends, they made a painful pilgrimage to Compostella. In their return Ulpho fell sick at Arras, where he lodged James Presta, a renowned researcher, will be full of grace, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou with his wife and eight children. He received the viaticum and extreme-unction from the hands of the bishop of Arras, the keynote speaker. For more information: call (623) among women. Who having heard, was troubled at Andrew Ghini, a native of Florence. Bridget spared neither solicitude, pains, nor prayers for his recovery, and received 939-1840, visit website www.azrosary.com, or e-mail his saying and thought with herself what manner of an assurance of it by a . He was accordingly restored again to his health, and arrived in Sweden, where he [email protected]. Admission is free. died soon after, in 1344, in the odour of sanctity, in the monastery of Alvastre, of the Cistercian Order, which rule, ac- salutation this should be. And the angel said to her: Fear not, Mary, for thou hast found grace with God. cording to some, he had embraced, though others say that he was only preparing himself for that state. FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS Bridget being by his death entirely at liberty to pursue her inclinations as to the manner of life which she desired Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb and shalt to lead, renounced the rank of princess which she held in the world, to take upon her more perfectly the state of a peni- bring forth a son: and thou shalt call his name Je- October 6: Fr. Anthony Uy tent. Her husband’s estates she divided among her children, according to the laws of justice and equity, and from that sus. He shall be great and shall be called the Son of October 7: Very Rev. John Berg day seemed to forget what she had been in the world. She changed her habit, using no more linen except for a veil to the Most High. And the Lord God shall give unto him October 8: Fr. Joseph Terra cover her head, wearing a rough hair shift, and, for a girdle, cords full of knots. The austerities which she practised are the throne of David his father: and he shall reign in October 9: Fr. Philip Wolfe incredible; on Fridays she redoubled her mortifications and other exercises, allowing herself no refection but a little the house of Jacob for ever. And of his kingdom October 10: Fr. Gregory Bartholomew bread and water. About the time of her husband’s death, in 1344, she built the great monastery of Wastein, in the there shall be no end. And Mary said to the angel: October 11: Fr. Kevin Young diocess of Lincopen, in Sweden, in which she placed sixty nuns, and, in a separate inclosure, friars, to the number of How shall this be done, because I know not man? October 12: Fr. Charles Van Vliet thirteen priests, in honour of the twelve apostles and St. Paul; four deacons, representing the four doctors of the church, And the angel answering, said to her: The Holy and eight lay brothers. She prescribed them the rule of St. Augustine, with certain particular constitutions, which are Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the said to have been dictated to her by our Saviour in a . The chief object of the particular devotions prescribed by Most High shall overshadow thee. And therefore also this rule are the Passion of Christ, and the honour of his holy Mother. the Holy which shall be born of thee shall be called St. Bridget had spent two years in her monastery at Wastein when she undertook a pilgrimage to Rome, in order the Son of God. And behold thy cousin Elizabeth, to venerate the of so many saints which are honoured in that city, and especially to offer up her fervent prayers at she also hath conceived a son in her old age: and the tombs of the apostles. The example of her virtue shone forth with brighter lustre in that great city. The austerity of this is the sixth month with her that is called barren. her watchings and penance, the tenderness of her devotion, her love of retirement, her fervour in visiting the churches, Because no word shall be impossible with God. And and in serving the sick in the hospitals, her severity towards herself, her mildness to all others, her profound humility, Mary said: Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it and her charity appeared in all she did. done to me according to thy word. Her ardent love of Jesus Christ crucified moved her to make a painful pilgrimage to visit the holy places in Pales- tine, where she watered with her pious tears the chief places which Christ had sanctified by his divine steps, and purpled with his adorable blood. In her journey she visited the most renowned churches in Italy and Sicily, with a devotion that excited all who saw her to fervour. Being returned safe to Rome, she lived there a year longer, but during that interval was afflicted with grievous distempers, under which she suffered the most excruciating pains with an heroic patience and resignation. Having given her last moving instructions to her son Birger, and her daughter Catharine, who were with her, she was laid on sackcloth, received the last sacraments, and her being released from its prison of clay, took its flight to that kingdom after which she had always most ardently sighed, on the 23d of July, 1373, being seventy-one years old. Her body was buried in the church of St. Laurence in Panis Perna, belonging to a convent of Poor Clares; but a year after her death, in July, 1374, it was translated to her monastery of Wastein in Sweden, by the procurement of her son Birger and St. Catharine. She was canonized by Boniface IX in 1391, on the 7th of October, and her festival is appointed on the day following. At the petition of the clergy and nobility of Sweden the general council of Constance ex- amined again the proofs, and unanimously declared her enrolled among the saints on the 1st of February, 1415. Her was again confirmed by Martin V in 1419. –From Butler’s Lives of the Saints