The Epistle S p e c i a l Volume I, Issue 2 N o v e m b er 2 0 1 5 p o i n t s o f i n t e r e s t : •Feast of All An Historic New Missal Saints n November 29, the First Sunday of has been described as “Prayer Book English” November 1st O Advent, our pastor Father Mark Lewis will and the texts allow for a certain adaptability to use our new altar missal for the celebration of local custom such as using “Holy Ghost” and • Evening Prayer our Sunday Mass. Officially called Divine “Holy Spirit” interchangeably throughout the at St. Anselm’s Worship: The Missal, the new altar missal is a Mass. November 7th, 4pm beautiful book with red leather binding, gilding and Florentine blocking that was purchased •Stewardship from the Catholic Truth Society (CTS) in the Sunday U.K. It has been approved and promulgated by November 22nd, Rome for use in Ordinariate parishes. 8:30am As such, the new missal “gives expression and preserves for Catholic worship the worthy Anglican liturgical patrimony, understood as that which has nourished the Catholic faith throughout the history of the Anglican Inside this tradition and prompted aspirations towards i s s u e : ecclesial unity,” according to its preface notes. Deacon in 2 Monsignor Jeffrey N. Steenson, Ordinary of Training the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, who was celebrant and preacher at Mass Stewardship: 2 on our patronal feast of St. Luke, while An Act of mingling with parishioners during our potluck Thanksgiving lunch said he was excited about the new missal. Praying for 3 “It has great significance,” said Monsignor Steenson, “because it is the first time since the the Dead The name Divine Worship was chosen by Reformation that a liturgical text developed in a Music at Mass Rome for the Ordinariate missal because it 3 separated tradition has been received back into this month harkens back to the 2003 Book of Divine the Church. It is faithful to what the Catholic Worship, the first liturgical book that was From the 4 Church has said Christian unity would look authorized by Rome to include for Catholic Pastor like. It is not absorption but what the Second worship some elements of the Anglican Vatican Council called a ‘maturing of gifts.’ patrimony. Rome is very happy about this [missal].” Monsignor Steenson said he had just While the language and forms of worship ordered an altar missal and looks forward to the found in Divine Worship draw heavily from the day when there are affordable missals for use in English monastic tradition, this rite is not a the pew. “We want to get folks carrying little separate rite in the Catholic Church but part of leather bound prayer books to Church like we the Roman Rite from which historically it used to,” he said. “We want to capture that developed. It remains “a recognizable tradition.” expression of the Roman Rite.” The language P a g e 2 Mark Arbeen, Deacon in Training ark Arbeen, Deacon-in-training for Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, he felt a M the Ordinariate, was born in Chicago, strong love for our Blessed Mother, and Illinois and was adopted by a loving family knew then that he was called to join his through the Episcopal Community of St. wife in the Roman Catholic Church. Mary’s in the Diocese of Chicago. He was Mark and Heather have two children, active as a child in the local Episcopal parish Jacob and Maria Sofia. Jacob is on the as an altar server and choirboy, and he Autism spectrum, and Sofia is a wonderful enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1985, serving 8 advocate and protector for her brother. years on active duty and 12 years in the Mark is both a Knight of the Equestrian Naval Reserve before retiring in 2005. He Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem currently works at the United States Secret and a Fourth Degree Knight of Columbus. Service. Mark began training for the diaconate Mark and Heather Arbeen, Mark graduated from the University of in January 2015 through the diaconal Sofia and Jake Illinois at Chicago in 1997 and immediately training program of the Diocese of began studies at Virginia Theological Arlington. Part of his training is to learn all Seminary with the intent of being ordained positions on the altar, culminating in as an Episcopal Priest. These plans changed serving as Master of Ceremonies prior to when he met his wife, Heather, in 2002 and being installed as a Lector in February 2016 started attending her Roman Catholic at the Cathedral of St. Thomas More in parish on Saturday while still attending an Arlington, Virginia. He will complete the Episcopal parish on Sunday. In May 2003, formal education portion of his training in while attending Mass at the Basilica of Our December 2017. Stewardship: Our Act of Thanksgiving “How can I” ll that we have and all that we are is a »The bottom line of stewardship make a” A gift from the loving God, who recognizes God’s generosity and our generously entrusts us with good gifts. As returning a portion to Him from the ‘first Return to” we acknowledge who we are, stewards of fruits’ rather than from what is left over. God’s creation, and whose we are – »Thus, each of us should to make our disciples of Jesus Christ – we begin to live The Lord” pledge as an act of thanksgiving rather lives of stewardship. We become more than as a process of raising money to generous, growing into the image of God, for all” balance our budget. experiencing the grace of God in new ways. He has” As we become people who give joyfully and May the hearts of all be led to some thankfully through Christ’s Church, we form of commitment that is an expression given me?” empower the Church for mission and of ‘first fruits’ thanksgiving to God. As we —Psalm 116: 12” ministry. As we become stewards, we read in our October 18 bulletin, “Each of experience the sense of offering, of us should be more of a ‘tither’ than a returning to God a portion of what He has ‘tipper’ in returning a portion of our so generously entrusted to us. And as we bounty back to God.” make joyful offerings to God, we are drawn Stewardship Sunday is November closer to Him and our spiritual lives are 22nd, the Feast of Christ the King. May we enriched. To make this happen … strive to be ever more obedient subjects of »We have a need to give that is more our merciful Saviour and ever more important than the Church’s need to faithful stewards of his gifts. receive. The Epistle Volume I, Issue 2 P a g e 3 Praying for the Dead oly Scripture assures us that there can be no sacrifice, so that, thus purified, they may attain the H imperfections in heaven: “Too pure are your beatific vision of God. The Church also commends eyes to look upon evil, and the sight of misery you almsgiving, indulgences, and works of penance cannot endure.” (Habakkuk 1:13). According to undertaken on behalf of the dead. the Catechism, those who do not merit hell yet During November, which is dedicated to the still need purification before entering heaven, will, Holy Souls in Purgatory, there are more after death, pass through a state the Church calls opportunities to help them by earning indulgences purgatory: “All who die in God’s grace and that are only applicable to them: friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are Visit a Cemetery: obtain a partial indulgence by indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after praying at a cemetery during November or a death they undergo purification, so as to achieve plenary indulgence for visiting a cemetery the holiness necessary to enter the joy of each day between November 1st and 8th. heaven.” (CCC 1030) Visit a Church or Public Oratory on November 2nd: The idea that prayer for the dead contributes obtain a plenary indulgence after devoutly to their afterlife purification dates back to the reciting the Our Father and the Creed on All people of Israel, “Therefore [Judas Maccabeus] Souls Day. made atonement for the dead, that they might be Pray the ‘Eternal Rest’: Obtain a partial indulgence delivered from their sin.” (2 Maccabees 12:46) So year round when reciting: Eternal rest grant to from the beginning, the Church has honored the them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon memory of the dead and offered prayers in them. May the souls of the faithful departed, suffrage for them, above all the Eucharistic through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. Music This Month May all who 1 November: The Feast of All Saints sleep in Missa O Quam Gloriosum [Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1583] O Quam Gloriosum [Tomás Luis de Victoria, 1572] Christ 8 November: Trinity 23 Mass for Four Voices [Thomas Tallis, mid 16th c.] find If Ye Love Me [Thomas Tallis, mid 16th c.] 15 November: Trinity 24 in His presence Mass for Four Voices [Giovanni Paolo Cima, c. 1610] Sicut cervus [Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, 16th c.] light, 22 November: Feast of Christ the King Mass No. 2 in G major [Franz Schubert, 1815] happiness, Postula a me [Jeffrey Quick, 2010] O God the King of Glory [Orlando Gibbons, c. 1610-1620] and peace. 29 November: First Sunday of Advent Mass for Three Voices [William Byrd, c.