The Traditional Latin Society of San Francisco TLM Society Website: http://sanctatrinitasunusdeus.com/ TLM Society email: [email protected]

The Traditional Latin Mass Society is an association of Roman Catholic faithful dedicated to the preservation of the “Ancient form of the ” or the “Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite”, as a legitimate use of Holy Mother Church’s Great Liturgical Patrimony. The Society includes lay faithful drawn from every age, group and walks of life as well as clergy and religious members who “continue to adhere with great love and affection to the earlier liturgical forms.” (Pope Benedict XVI, Motu Proprio of 2007)

Twenty Sixth Sunday After November 17, 2013

Traditional Latin Masses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco

Star of the Sea Church St. Monica Parish 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco 94118 Geary Blvd & 23rd Ave., San Francisco 94121 (415) 751-0450 ext.16 (415) 751-5275 Sunday: 11 a.m. & Monday - Friday: 7:30 a.m. Monday - Saturday: 12:00 p.m.

Immaculate Conception Chapel Most Holy Rosary Chapel St. Francis of Assisi 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco 94110 One Vincent Dr., San Rafael 94903 1425 Bay Rd. East Palo Alto 94303 (415) 824-1762 (415) 479-3331 (650) 322-2152 Sunday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:15 p.m. First Friday: 6 p.m.

Mass Schedule at Star of the Sea for November & December 2013

17-Nov-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 26th Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Mark Mazza 24-Nov-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Last Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Mark Mazza 1-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 1st Sunday of Fr. Mark Mazza 6-Dec-13 Friday 6:30 PM First Friday (St. Nicholas) Fr. Mark Mazza 2nd Sunday of Advent / 8-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Immaculate Conception Fr. Anselm Ramelow 15-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 3rd Sunday of Advent Fr. Mark Mazza 17-Dec-13 Tuesday 6:30 PM “O” Mass O Sapienta Fr. Anselm Ramelow “O” Mass – O Adonai (Rorate 18-Dec-13 Wednesday 6:30 PM Mass) Fr. Anselm Ramelow 19-Dec-13 Thursday 6:30 PM “O” Mass – O Radix Jesse Canon Olivier Meney 20-Dec-13 Friday 6:30 PM “O” Mass – O Clavis David Fr. Mark Mazza 21-Dec-13 Saturday 10:00 AM “O” Mass – O Oriens Fr. Mark Mazza 4th Sunday of Advent – O Rex 22-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Gentium Fr. Mark Mazza 23-Dec-13 Monday 6:30 PM “O” Mass – O Emmanuel Fr. Mark Mazza Nativity of Our Lord 24-Dec-13 Tuesday 11:00 PM Midnight Mass (*Holy Day) Fr. Mark Mazza 25-Dec-13 Wednesday 11:00 AM Nativity of Our Lord (*Holy Day) Fr. Mark Mazza 29-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Sunday Octave of Fr. Mark Mazza 1 | Page

Mass Intention Requests Mystic Monk Coffee Sale this Sunday!

When the TLM Society arranges special Masses with the approval of Looking for a good Christmas gift? After the 11 AM Mass this the pastor/chaplain, i.e. First Fridays, Holydays and other special Sunday (Nov. 17, 2013), everyone is invited to come down to the days, Mass intentions may be requested. A stipend of $10.00 per Star of the Sea school auditorium where the Mystic Monk Coffee Mass. Visit the parish office Monday-Thursday between 9am-4pm. will be on sale! Some of the coffee blend available for sale will If you have questions please email us [email protected] include: Christmas Blend ($15), Jingle Bell Java ($12),

Decaf Ground ($12) and many more! Cash payment only. Assistant Chaplain’s Corner

As we come to the end of our , the Church places before us the feasts of St. Albert the Great (November 15) and the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (November 21).

At first glance, these feasts have little in common. First, we have Albert, nicknamed “The Boot” because he was said to have walked all of Europe, the great scientist and scholar and bishop, who is the true patron saint of extroverts, as he carried out his peripatetic mode of holiness in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the world. Albert is famous, first and foremost, because he was the teacher of the great St. Thomas Aquinas, forming young Thomas in the philosophy of Aristotle, which was newly available in Latin-speaking Europe. Called the “Universal Doctor” because he studied everything, the Bishop of Regensburg is also the brightest-shining exemplar of the “Scientific Revolution of 1215.” In his intellectual labors and tireless travel and widespread influence, he is a brilliant example of the fruitfulness of the active life in the Church.

The feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin is, on the other hand, a feast of the fruitfulness of the contemplative life in the Church. Although Sacred Scripture is silent on the matter, the Church receives the strong oral tradition, enshrined in her Sacred Liturgy, that the Blessed Virgin Mary left her parents and her home as a young woman and solemnly consecrated herself to God as a virgin, living a contemplative life in the shadow of the Temple in Jerusalem. In her is fulfilled the prophecy of the Psalmist: “Hearken, O daughter, and see and incline thy ear, and forget thy people and thy father’s house” (Psalm 44:11). Of this solemn consecration, St. Augustine says: “Mary answered the announcing angel: ‘How shall this be done, because I know not man?’ She would not have said this unless she had already vowed her virginity to God.”

St. Thomas, the pupil of St. Albert, explains that Mary consecrated her virginity to God with a vow because “works of perfection are more praiseworthy when performed in fulfillment of a vow.” Thomas goes on to explain that, at first, Our Lady’s vow of virginity was conditional upon further confirmation from God, Who commanded the People of Israel to marry and beget children “since the worship of God was spread according to carnal origin, until Christ was born of that people.” However, he continues, after she was engaged to Joseph and had, after much prayer, discussed the matter with him, “having taken a husband, according as the custom of the time required, together with him she took a vow of virginity.” Thus was inaugurated the precious tradition of consecrated life in the Church.

Albert’s activity and Mary’s contemplation, while starkly different in the details of daily living, are united by the common quality of the total consecration of all of one’s being and powers and efforts to Almighty God. Whether studying the created universe or contemplating its Creator, the Christian soul is called in all things to divine love, to the total gift of himself to God and, for God’s sake, to all men. This is the core of sanctity, of which we are especially aware in these sober November days of the dead. As we contemplate the Last Things, we are inspired by Albert’s witness in the active life and Our Mother’s gift of herself in the contemplative life.

Fr. Joseph Previtali Assistant Chaplain

We are looking for committed people to help in any way with the Society! Please don’t hesitate to contact us: [email protected]

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!!

Walk for Life West Coast 2014: Join fellow Catholics and Pro- Lifers from all over California and beyond as we stand up for the littlest among us at the 10th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on January 25, 2014 . The pre-walk rally begins at 12:30PM in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, and the Walk for Life, down the city’s Market Street, begins at 1:30. Last year’s Walk drew 40,000+ people and eleven Catholic bishops and a personal message from then Pope Benedict XVI! For complete information about the Walk, visit www.walkforlifewc.com or call 415-658-1793.

The TLM Society will be participating in the Walk for Life Info Faire at the Civic Center Plaza on January 25, 2014. Fliers and other informational materials on the Traditional Latin Mass will be distributed. Volunteers are needed! Please e-mail the Society at [email protected] or call Jay Balza (707-319-7549).

Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society: How to enroll souls: please email [email protected] and submit as follows: "Name, State, Country." If you want to enroll entire families, simply write in the email: "The Jones family, Ohio, USA". Individual names are preferred. Be greedy -- send in as many as you wish and forward this posting to friends as well. And please follow this formatting strictly. Please consider forwarding this Society to your family and friends, announcing from the pulpit during Holy Mass or listing in your church bulletin. We need to spread the word and relieve more suffering souls. Please pray for the enrolled Souls and the 36 holy priests saying Traditional Masses for the Society:

"For all the souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the Faithful departed rest in peace. Amen."

Almighty and ever living God, we ask Thy blessing upon the priests who offer Masses for the Purgatorial Society. Give them a greater awareness of the grace that Thou dost pour out through the Sacraments, and by their devout celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, increase in them a love for Thee. Give strength to Thy priests, O Shepherd of the flock; when they are in doubt, give them the assurance of faith, and in Thy goodness confirm them as heralds of Thy Truth to all who seek to follow in Thy path. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal Priest, Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity with the Holy Ghost, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

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Feature of the Week:

Alfons Ma. Cardinal Stickler SDB (1910 - 2007)

Cardinal Stickler was the former "Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church" and was made a Cardinal in 1985. Older Tradition-minded Catholics will remember that in the 1990's, no other Cardinal spoke as forcefully, as bluntly and frequently on behalf of the Traditional Latin Mass and those attached to it, as this little Salesian cardinal and scholar from Austria.

The following is a quote from his 1992 speech to the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales.

"We have to consider still another idea. Modern Catholics say "Now we have to cut away all the old things. We must be modern." But this modernity is not the modernity of the Church because we have to preserve the whole substance which is our heritage from past generations. So if many of the Bishops ask us "Why do you follow the Old Rite?" We can answer very easily: "The new rite was introduced after the Council as a matter of pastoral care. This means that the Faithful should be animated more and more by the new form of rites to be better in Catholic truth and life. But many good people in the world who still believe in the truths of the are not satisfied about the innovations introduced into the Mass. Can you say then that the pastoral purpose has been fulfilled?" I think, through my experience, that there is more and more dissatisfaction becoming stronger always in all the categories of age, social positions, even in many young people. Further we are told that the truth about the Mass, about the centre of the liturgy has not really changed. But we can ask; have we the same sense, the same reverence we had before - and perhaps still have - when we assist at the Old Roman Rite? Or have we a loss of reverence, of awe of our biggest mystery, our faith in the Holy Mass? In the sacrifice? It was admitted officially when, two years ago, on the Silver Jubilee of the changing of the Rite, authorities in Rome admitted that there was a great loss of awe in the Mass - the most important rite of our worship. This is the experience of all who travel around everywhere. We have lost what really is at the heart of our worshipping in the Holy Sacrifice. Many times we get the impression that it is man being worshipped but not God. We have a meal, but not a Sacrifice. I think that this has proved one of the most important changes in the general attitude to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass..."

Source: Archives of the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales via Ecclesia Dei Society of St. Joseph - Una Voce Philippines (https://web.archive.org/web/20070128072434/http://www.latin-mass-society.org/sticklms.htm)

Mary of Nazareth Film Screenings

Nov. 18th and 19th (Monday and Tuesday) 6:30 PM at Cinemark Theater 825 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City, CA. Tickets are $12. For tickets and for more information please call Pauline Books & Media at (650) 369-4230. Online registration: www.pauline.org/redwoodcityfilm

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November Requiem Masses at Star of the Sea

Fr. Joseph Previtali (Nov. 2, 2013)

Canon Olivier Meney - Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (Nov. 7, 2013)

Fr. Jeffrey Keyes - Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Nov. 8, 2013)

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26th Sunday after Pentecost: November 17, 2013 Jer 29:11-12; 29:14 The Lord says: I think thoughts of peace, and not of Matt 13:31-35 affliction. You shall call upon Me, and I will hear you; and At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the crowds: The I will bring back your captivity from all places. kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a Ps 84:2 man took and sowed in his field. This indeed is the smallest You have favored, O Lord, Your land; You have restored of all the seeds; but when it grows up it is larger than any the well-being of Jacob. herb and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy and dwell in its branches. He told them another parable: Ghost... The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until all of it was Collect leavened. All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in Grant us, we beseech You, almighty God, ever to think of parables, and without parables he did not speak to them; spiritual things and in every word and work always to do that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, I what is well pleasing in Your sight. Through Jesus Christ, will open My mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the since the foundation of the world. unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Ps 129:1-2 1 Thess. 1:2-10 Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord: Lord, hear my Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all, prayer! Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord. continually making a remembrance of you in our prayers; being mindful before God our Father of your work of faith, Secret and labor, and charity, and your enduring hope in our Lord May this offering, O God, we beseech You, cleanse and Jesus Christ. We know, brethren, beloved of God, how you renew us, govern and protect us. Through Jesus Christ, thy were chosen. For our Gospel was not delivered to you in Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and in unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. much fullness, as indeed you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became Communion Mark 11:24 imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great Amen I say to you, all things whatever you ask for in tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became prayer, believe that you shall receive, and it shall be done to a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia, you. but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we need say nothing further. For they themselves report Post Communion concerning us how we entered among you, and how you Nourished by Your heavenly food, O Lord, we beseech turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, You that we may always strive after those things that give and to await from heaven Jesus, His Son, Whom He raised us true life. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who from the dead, Who has delivered us from the wrath to liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy come. Ghost, ever one God, world without end.

Gradual Ps 43:8-9 You saved us, O Lord, from our foes, and those who hated us You put to shame. V. In God we gloried day by day; Your name we praised always. Alleluia, alleluia. Ps 129:1-2 V. Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my prayer! Alleluia.

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