OUR LADY OF FATIMA Traditional Mass Roman

SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X

— SUNDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CHRISTMAS —

Rev. Fr. Richard Brueggemann Pastor

Our Lady of Fatima: Fr. Richard Brueggemann Our Lady of Mount Carmel: Third and Peach St. Isidore 3900 Scruggs Drive PO Box 141 32100 E. Colfax Avenue, Service Road N. Richland Hills, TX 76180 Sanger, TX 76266 Watkins, CO 80137 www.olmcnrh.com www.sangercatholic.com E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (817) 284-4809 Phone: (940) 458-7344 Phone: (303) 775-9263 Sunday in the Octave of Christmas December 29th, 2019 Fr. Richard Brueggemann, Pastor

Eucharistic Crusade Intention for the Month of January: For Persecuted and Abandoned Christians

Collections Report

Sunday General Collection 12/22 $1,231.00 12/25 $1,826.00 Mass Attendance 12/22 142 12/25 129

Mass Schedule

Sanger – Our Lady of Fatima

~ January ~

Wednesday, 1st: Mass (Octave Day of the Nativity)…………...... 1 PM —Holy Day of Obligation

First Friday, 3rd: Mass……………………………………………...6 PM —Followed by the rosary and benediction Sunday, 5th: Mass (The Most Holy Name of )…...……...1 PM

Saturday, 11th: Mass………………………………..…..………...5 PM Sunday, 12th: Mass (The Feast of the Holy Family)…………...1 PM

Sunday, 19th: Mass……………………………………………...1 PM

North Richland Hills – Our Lady of Mt. Carmel

~ January ~

Wednesday, 1st: Mass (Octave Day of the Nativity)……………...... 9 AM —Holy Day of Obligation Thursday, 2nd: Mass………………………………………………………….7:15 AM

First Saturday, 4th: Mass……………………………………………………...………5 PM —Followed by the rosary and benediction Sunday, 5th: Mass (The Most Holy Name of Jesus)…………………………...9 AM

Sunday, 12th: Mass (The Feast of the Holy Family)…………….……………..9 AM

Saturday, 18th: Mass……………………………………………………………...5 PM Sunday, 19th: Mass……………………………………………………………..9 AM

SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS CONFESSIONS BEGIN 1 HOUR BEFORE MASS UNLESS OTHERWISE LISTED

VISITING PRIEST TODAY: Please welcome Fr. Paul Robinson who is replacing Fr. Brueggemann today. FIRST COMMUNION CLASS is cancelled today and will resume next Sunday, January 5, at the usual time after Mass. CHAPEL APP: The US and Canadian Districts have a new tool to help SSPX faithful to keep track of chapel locations and Mass times. It is called the chapel app, and it can easily be added to your smartphone. Simply go to fsspx.today, then select Our Lady of Fatima in Sanger, Texas. Once you go to the page for Our Lady of Fatima you can make an icon for the page on your phone and have instantaneous access to updated Mass times and announcements. EUCHARISTIC CRUSADERS: There will be a Eucharistic Crusader meeting after Mass next Sunday. Please be sure to bring your Treasure Sheets! THE SSPX MISSION IN INDIA is looking for financial sponsors for students. If you would be willing to sponsor a student for $80 a month please contact Fr. Brueggemann for further details. ANNIVERSARY PILGRIMAGE: The St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary will make a pilgrimage to Lourdes on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the SSPX. A limited number of raffle tickets are available to support this endeavor. Prize is a 2020 Jaguar XE. Please see the flyer in the hall, stas.org/giveaway, or Alex Croy for more information.

Second Collections for the Month of January

January 5th………………………………………………………………...St. Isidore Priory January 19th……………………………………………………………………..Alms Fund

Pastor’s Corner

Entering that stable, and contemplating the Divine Infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger, we behold in Him, with the eye of faith, the God of Infinite Majesty, Whose throne is the highest heaven, Whose servants are the angels. Although stretched in a humble, comfortless crib, He dwells nevertheless in the bosom of the Father; although He utters no word, He is still the Word and Wisdom of God…

Here we behold the sacrifice He offered to the offended God, interiorly, by sublime acts of adoration, love and acceptance of death: exteriorly, by His submission to corporal suffering, cold, poverty and privation of every description.

While St. Peter of Alcantara was one day meditating upon these prodigies of God’s mercy, so inflamed was he with divine love that, in a state of ecstasy he was borne a considerable space through the air to the foot of the Blessed Sacrament. And the noble Paula, as she saw from afar the city that gave birth to the Saviour of the world, could not help exclaiming: “Hail! hail! Bethlehem; hail to thee so worthy of thy name (house of bread), since it was on thee that the True Bread from heaven deigned to descend for us.” And in the ardent transports of her faith, her lips gave utterance to the most tender accents of admiration, gratitude, and love.

If the mere sight of the place where Jesus was born is capable of inflaming faithful souls with divine love; if the meditation on all that our Infant Saviour suffered in the stable of Bethlehem can make hearts overflow with a torrent of holy joy, what should be the delight of our souls at the consideration of the far more wondrous prodigies that take place in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass! There our Saviour is born every day in the hands of the priest, by the words of . The Church is His birthplace, the altar is His crib. St. Bernard has well remarked that when the Church reads the martyrology for Christmas day, she uses the present instead of the past tense. At other times she mentions, for instance, the birth of St. John the Baptist, which took place at such a time, or the death of St. Peter, who suffered martyrdom on such a day, but the birth of our Lord and Saviour is proclaimed as taking place now. “Jesus Christus nascitur in Bethlehem Juda.” Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem of Juda. Why this difference of phrase? Because He is every day really and truly born in the holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

—Excerpt from The Holy Mass: The Sacrifice for the Living and the Dead by Michael Müller