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The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X in Ireland Saint Pius X House 12 Tivoli Terrace South St John’s Bulletin Dún Laoghaire , County Dublin Telephone: (01) 284 2206 Very Rev. Ramón Anglés, Superior The Society of St Pius X in Ireland Rev. Régis Babinet

Saint John’s Presbytery Corpus Christi Church 1 Upper Mounttown Road Connaught Gardens Dún Laoghaire , Co. Dublin Athlone , Co. Roscommon Telephone: (01) 280 9407 Telephone: (090) 649 2439 Rev. Paul Biérer Rev. Fabrice Loschi, Prior Rev. David Nichols Rev. Br. Gerard

CONTACT Saint Pius V Chapel 78 Andersonstown Road Dún Laoghaire or Belfast , Co. Antrim Mr. McKeown (028) 9445 3654

Our Lady of the Rosary Church Shanakiel Road Dún Laoghaire or Sunday’s Well, Co. Cork Mr. O’Connor (021) 437 1196

Our Lady of Knock and St Patrick Chapel Unit 5 Richbrook Business Park, Dún Laoghaire or Mill Rd, Bessbrook, Newry , Co. Down Mr. McArdle (028) 3082 5730

Saint Joseph’s Mass Centre Dún Laoghaire or Tralee , Co. Kerry Mrs. Dennehy (068) 43123 In This Issue: Cashel Mass Centre Dún Laoghaire or Co. Tipperary Mr. Walsh (062) 61028 - Letter from Fr Anglés - Sermon from Archbishop Lefebvre December 2008 - All Saints of Ireland Month of - Plus all the activities and devotions the Holy Child Jesus in our priories and churches Website : www.ireland.sspx.net

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Devotions & Activities at St John’s every substantial Missal as the verse for built Churches and established monas- Rosary daily at 6 pm; Saturday and Sunday at 10.30 am the Introit of the common Mass for the teries with adjoining schools. Further, Every Sunday : Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament at 10.30 am Blessed Virgin, Salve Sancta parens , even though St Kieran was probably the Every Thursday : Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and Miraculous Medal put forth by Pope St Pius X in 1912, oldest, yet St Ailbhe was their agreed Novena after the 6.30 pm Mass (except First Thursday) comes from his pen. Apart from the unofficial Primate amongst themselves. First Thursday: Apostolate of Prayer for Priests. Exposition of the Blessed Gospels, the Carmen was the work most After St Patrick came there was a diffi- Sacrament after 11 am Mass, adoration until 6.30 pm Mass. copied in monasteries during all the culty regarding authority, the native First Friday: Benediction after the 6.30 pm Mass Middle Ages, editions were printed Bishops first thoughts being that a for- First Saturday: Monthly day of Recollection (April to November) every few years all over Europe and eigner should not be the overall Pri- Confessions : 10.30 am on Saturdays and Sundays (After 11am Sunday Mass on request) ancient Manuscript copies are found in mate. However, St Patrick’s mandate Missa Cantata : Fourth Sunday of the month nearly all the great Libraries of Europe, from the Pope indicated he should have Doctrinal Conference for Adults: First and Third Tuesdays at 7.30 pm ncluding the Vatican. overall authority and first St Declan, Catechism for children : Every Sunday between Masses followed by St Ailbhe and St Kieran Catechism for teenagers : Second Saturday of each month at 11.45 am Some writers also mention 2 other very soon bowed to St Patrick. St Ibar had St John’s Schola and Choir: Wednesdays at 7.30 pm early Saints, namely, St Eliph and St the greatest difficulty in the matter and Grimonia . However, St Eliph’s Life withdrew to his monastery on the island has striking similarities with, or appears of Beg-Eri in Wexford harbour. The Devotions & Activities in Athlone to be parts of, that of St Mansuy (above) native Bishops henceforth cooperated Rosary daily at 6.30 pm as has St Grimonia with that of St with St Patrick and he reconfirmed First Friday: Holy Hour at 6.30 pm Dympna of Gheel. This may be a matter them in their various Sees and monas- First Saturday: Benediction and Rosary at 10.25 am of 2 examples of different names for teries and appointed St Ailbhe Confessions : 10.30 am on Saturdays and Sundays each of two different Saints. They were Archbishop of Munster, which at one Missa Cantata : First and Third Sundays of the month very early times and many details are stage could have meant all the Southern shrouded in uncertainty. half of Ireland. St Patrick later estab- The other 4 Saints mentioned previ- lished Armagh as the All-Ireland au- Devotions & Activities in Cork ously, St Ailbhe of Emly(12 th Septem- thority. Thus there were only these 2 Fourth Sunday : Exposition and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament after Mass ber, and known as Hildebert in Ger- Metropolitans for centuries and this Confessions : Half an hour before every Mass many), St Kieran of Saighir(5 th March) , closely reflected the basic North-South Missa Cantata : Third Sunday St Ibar of Beg-Eri, Wexford (23 rd lay divisions of the country at the time. April) and St Declan of Ardmore, Co Even though these 4 Bishops were es- th SSPX Groups and Pious Associations in Ireland Waterford (24 July) , had fairly parallel tablished and preaching in Ireland be- and almost contemporaneous careers. fore St Patrick came, most of them are Eucharistic Crusade: Contact Fr. Biérer Details of their Lives are given in vari- thought to have outlived him. This Archconfraternity of St Stephen for Altar Boys: Contact Fr. Angles ous Bulletins for months in which their should not be surprising as St Patrick is St John’s Circle: Contact Fr. Anglés feastdays occur. All were born some- thought to have been about 59 years old Youth Group: Contact Fr. Loschi time late in the 2 nd half of the 4 th cen- when he came and that the others were Third Order of the SSPX: Contact Fr. Anglés tury. They were first educated in Ireland younger. Of course, it is most likely that St Philomena’s Rosary Association: Contact Kay Cronin and then went abroad for further train- there were many others, particularly ing. They all would appear to have gone priests, active in Ireland before St Pat- Sunday 2nd Collection to Rome and most were ordained priests rick’s mission. Indeed, prior to St Pat- 1st : For the Seminaries of the SSPX Mass Stipends and consecrated Bishops there. Some of rick’s arrival, a St Palladius had been 2nd : For Insurances (buildings, car, health) 1 Mass intention: 16 € / £ 13 3rd : For Utilities (heating, electricity, petrol, phone) them are said to have met St Patrick on sent as a missioner to Ireland in 431 but Novena of Masses: 160 € / £ 130 the Continent, either in Rome or in after about a year without much suc- 4th : Building Fund (renovations of churches & priories) Gregorian: 640 € / £ 520 5th : For the Missions of the SSPX France. By the time St Patrick had ar- cess, he left early in 432 and continued rived on his mission in Ireland, all had his missionary work in Scotland. 14 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 3 who gave him extra disciples to help in some say of the tribe of Tuatha Dé his work. He became Bishop/Abbot of Danann, and members were noted as ANNOUNCEMENTS Cloncurry, Co Kildare and later went to being sages in many fields; learning, Scotland where he founded the famous science, medicine and, latterly, religion. ♦ ROSARY CRUSADE : Bishop Fellay in Lourdes : “ Given the success of our monastery of Candida Casa at Whithern The first St Sedulius, born around the first Rosary Crusade to obtain the return of the Tr identine Mass, we would now in Galloway. He also got stone masons middle of the 4 th century, probably like to offer to Our Lady a new bouquet of a millio n rosaries (5 decades) to from St Martin to help build his church made the greatest mark in history. He obtain the withdrawal of the decree of excommunicat ion through her and monastery. In Scotland he was was brought up and educated in Ireland, intercession. » known as Nennius or Ninnian. This is and, when adult he proceeded to France The Rosaries are to be said between November 1 st and December 25 th 2008 obtained by dropping the first syllable where he taught as a professor, then Please send you pledge to Father Anglés in Dun Laoghaire of Monenna as it was a common prac- went to Italy where he is said to have or give it to one of your priests. tice for the Irish to prefix the names of been Baptised and became a professor specially endeared Saints with the word of Philosophy. Later, he went to Greece ♦ EUCHARISTIC CRUSADE MEETING : in Athlone on Satuday 13 December . Holy ‘mo’ meaning ‘my’. This convention where he taught poetry. Somewhere Mass at 11 am, Lunch, Christmas Carols at the local nursing home, Benediction. was not used in Scotland and so he be- along the line he was ordained priest came Nennius there and became known and many think he was also consecrated ♦ CONFERENCE OF FATHER SUMMERS in Athlone on Sunday 14 December as the ‘Apostle of the Picts’. He died Bishop or Abbot, even though no See is after 11 am Mass in Parish Hall, on St Michael’s School in England. and was buried at Whithern and is ven- known for him but then that was com- ♦ CHRISTMAS DUES enveloppes available in all the churches and chapels. erated there and in Ireland. For centu- mon enough in those days. ries afterwards, many Irish monks and St Sedulius’s fame comes from his writ- ♦ NOTE CONCERNING CATECHISM : The catechism course from the Sisters are Saints travelled to Candida Casa for ings. He composed the great and only not to be sent back to them in America. Please mark the tests yourselves or you training because of its Irish connections Christian Epic in poetry of the story of may ask one of the priests. For any information, ask Father Biérer. and flavour. the Redemption, which he called ‘Carmen Paschale’ or the Easter Song, St Sedulius, 4 th and 5 th centuries, proba- as well as other works, hymns and po- th CHRISTMAS MASSES bly died shortly after 430. Feastday; 12 ems. His works are commended even in February: There have been the writings of St Jerome St John’s - 24th: Carols & Rosary at 11 pm followed by Holy Mass a number of Gaelic Saints who died 420. Also, at the Day Masses: 9am & 11am named Sedulius, three of Church Council of 494-495 Athlone - Midnight & 11 am whom have achieved re- his works were approved Cork - 11 am nown on the Continent and recommended by the while the others were Council and Pope as being Newry - 8.30 am -- Belfast - 11 am mainly Bishops and Ab- works next to the Scrip- bots in Ireland or Britain. tures in reliability and DECEMBER 31st Now, at first sight, truth. Extracts from his Masses: 11 am & 6.30 pm Sedulius may not appear works, generally the Car- Plenary Indulgence to be gained (under the usual conditions) by the public to be an Irish name but in men, are used in the Lit- singing of the Te Deum after the Masses. fact it is easily derived urgy of the Church, includ- from the Gaelic surname ing the Christmas Lauds JANUARY 1st Siadhail , anglicised and Epiphany Vespers. Masses: 11 am & 6.30 pm Shiel [or possibly Shield Thus their use is inter- (s) where the d is muted as spersed with the Psalms Plenary Indulgence to be gained (under the usual conditions) by the public in the word ‘Wednesday’]. and Gospels. All this is singing of the Veni Creator before the Masses. Siadhail is a very an- extremely rare. His name is cient Gaelic family name, further acknowledged in

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tive name but this was changed to Man- LETTER FROM FATHER ANGLES LETTER FROM FATHER ANGLES IRISHIRISH SAINTSSAINTS suy, which might have been derived from the Irish surname Sweeney/ Sui ne and adding the first sylla- All the Saints of Ireland ble‘mon’ (French) or ‘mo’(Gaelic), both ADVENT 2008 Part 2 meaning ‘my’ and sounding much the same. He is said to have travelled

ontinuing from last month’s Bul- abroad and to Dear Friends and Benefactors of the Society in C letin, we follow with short notes have become Ireland, about some of the earliest pre- a Christian in Patrician Saints, and some lesser known Rome and xactly two years ago, In a second major round of the traditions from the early part of St Pat- also made a over two million rosa- spiritual combat for Tradition, rick’s mission. priest and E Bishop by the ries were offered as a our superior general, Bishop nd St Abban/Abben, 2 century, Feastday Pope. After spiritual bouquet to the Holy Bernard Fellay, has requested 13 th May : A holy hermit from Ireland his consecra- Father, asking from him, as the from your generosity another who travelled to England about the mid- tion, some- prelude of a normalization of bouquet of one million rosaries, dle of the 2 nd century!, according to the time between 338 and 350 the present state of affairs, an this time to request - through ancient Chronicles of England. He ob- tained a site from the King for a monas- he was sent official declaration allowing the intercession of the Immacu- tery, which soon grew to having 300 to Toul, between the rivers Meuse and every priest to offer freely and late and Sorrowful Heart of monks and over which he was Abbot, in Moselle, as its 1 st Bishop and Apostle without fear of retribution the Mary- the removal of the decree Berkshire. This, in time, expanded with where he built his Church, monastery a school and town. The town was later and school. Subsequently, he performed Holy Sacrifice according to the of excommunication of our called Abbandún which changed into many miracles and became the Patron tridentine Missale Romanum , bishops, so that they may exer- the modern Abington, after the Saint. In of the area. He died about 373(the year "restored to the original form cise their episcopal ministry his old age, St Abban is said to have St Patrick was born!) and he was buried and rite of the Holy Fathers," without hindrance. In his letter returned to Ireland and died there. in his Cathedral. His grave became a About 1,000 years later St Laurence location of miracles and a destination and forever canonized by St. of 23 October last, which we O’Toole stayed in the monastery at for pilgrimages, particularly for Irish Pius V in the Apostolic Consti- published in this bulletin, the Abington while waiting to meet King travelling to or from Rome, and it is tution Quo Primum on July 14, bishop writes: "We will take it Henry II. This was because of its Irish said that St Martin of Tours visited. 1570. The Motu Proprio Sum- to heart to pray with renewed connections and it probably still had Irish monks. St Abban is said to have St Monenn(a)/Maoineann or Nennius/ morum Pontificum , 7 July 2007, fervour that, in these difficult returned to Ireland just before his death. Ninnian , about 360-430. Feastday 16 th acknowledged the legal rights hours of history, the Holy Fa- September: St Monenn is the Irish form of the Tridentine Mass, which ther may fulfil with fidelity his St Mansuy; 1st Bishop and Patron of of the name of this Saint whose parents was never abrogated. Despite august functions in accordance Toul, Lorraine, France. 4 th century; apparently were Christians as he was Feastday 3 rd September: St Mansuy is Baptised when a child. He grew up in the modest number of our con- with the wish of the Sacred the first Irish Saint of whom there is a learning and holiness and gathered dis- gregation in Ireland, we took Heart of Jesus, for the good of reasonable amount of reliable informa- ciples around him. He went to Rome for the challenge at heart and were all the Church. We are utterly tion. A 10 th century biography was writ- further education and training and was able to contribute with 32,583 convinced that such a gesture ten by the monk Adso who was trained ordained and consecrated – when, in Columban Luxeuil and a number of where or by whom is not known. On his documented pledges. way home he visited St Martin at Tours copies are extant. Fethgnó was his na- 12 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 5 must struggle against anything that might of the world, and the scandals of it. tarnish our souls, so that it can be said of coming from the Sovereign immutable and always plentiful our souls: " Tota pulchra est, et macula non Therefore let us all ask today that our Pontiff would have as profound source of every apostolate and est in te -Thou art all fair, and there is no Society be a sign, a sign of truth, a sign of stain in thee." Let there be no stain in our holiness, a sign of flight from sin, and all the an effect on the Mystical Body spirituality: the Sacrifice of Our souls so that we may worthily receive Our scandals of the world, and a sign of the as the freedom of the traditional Saviour, the Holy Mass of all Lord Jesus Christ. presence of the Virgin Mary. We will truly be children of the Church, children of Mary, liturgy." times. The Mass is our aposto- And if that is true for Christians, true for the on this condition. But if, unhappily, we also late, our spirituality, our life. In faithful, true for every person, every soul become like the people who are drawn by receiving Our Lord Jesus Christ, how much the world and who want compromises with It is a matter of strict justice and the Mass we find our holiness more, dear brethren, is it true of you - you things of the world, with error - then we truth. I invite you again to join and our vitality. who are destined in a singular way to will no longer be worthy children of Mary, consecrate yourselves to God, to offer worthy children of Our Lord. this Rosary Crusade, by offer- yourselves to God, and particularly those ing your daily rosary for this It is upon the Holy Mass that who offer themselves to God in the That is what we ask, for all those who are priesthood, who, in this world, call down present at this Holy Mass, for all those who intention. We have time until Christendom was built; from Our Lord Jesus Christ upon the altar and, are present here, and particularly for those Christmas. Let us be generous. the Mass come forth all the who, in a moment, will pronounce their like the Blessed Virgin, touch Him with their splendid accomplishments of hands, and give Him to others; how much oblation and their engagements in the more must your souls be immaculate! Society. On the Feast of the Immaculate our European culture: civiliza- In the name of the Father, and of the Son, With what joy, therefore, do we receive and of the Holy Ghost. Amen. Conception, Father Paul Biérer tion, art, beauty, progress, sta- today the oblations of those who will pronounce his perpetual bility, and peace. Save the Mass desire to offer their lives, offer their Novena to the Immaculate Conception oblation in the Society, linking and all is saved, all can be re- souls, for the service of God, the Prayer of St Pius X service of the altar. Let us ask in a To be said from 29th November himself for life to our priestly built. It is the True Mass that special way of the Blessed Virgin to transmit, in a certain degree, this MOST HOLY Virgin, who wast pleasing family. In uniting our prayer of matters. There should be no privilege she had, the graces which to God and didst become His Mother. thanksgiving to the joyful offer- doubt in our minds that, once are necessary to keep our souls O Immaculate in your body, in your soul, in ing of Father Paul, we remem- more, it will be upon the Mass immaculate. your faith and in your love, we beseech thee to ber the main purpose of our So- that the restoration of Christen- She is the creature that was created, look graciously upon the wretched who implore designed by God to destroy sin. Thus thy powerful protection. ciety: the preservation of the dom will take place. there is no creature more free of sin The wicked serpent, against whom the primal Catholic priesthood. than the Blessed Virgin Mary. She curse was hurled, continues none the less to wage This is why Father Fabrice Lo- has crushed the head of the serpent. war and to lay snares for the unhappy children of Therefore with the Blessed Virgin Eve. Whereas other congregations schi, Father Régis Babinet, Fa- there is no compromise, no Ah, do thou, our blessed Mother, our Queen and compromise with sin, no compromise and religious families in the ther David Nichols, Brother with error; she is completely true, Advocate, who from the first instant of thy Church have their specific Gerard-Francis, and myself, conception didst crush the head of our enemy, completely holy. She cannot bear fields of apostolate (education, error, or sin, or vice. Let us then ask receive the prayers that we unite single-heartedly will unite our oblation to the the Blessed Virgin that we ourselves to thine and conjure thee to offer at the throne of hospitals, contemplative life, perpetual one of Father Paul have this horror of sin, this horror of God, that we may never fall into the snares that parish work, study, preaching), Biérer, along with six hundred vice - but love for sinners, because it are laid for us, in such wise that we may all come was for sinners that she was created, to the haven of salvation; and in the midst of so and many can be easily distin- priests and clerics all over the to save sinners. May we have this many dangers may holy Church and the guished by a unique spirituality, world, kneeling before the Altar immense desire, this flame which fellowship of Christians everywhere sing once must consume us, the desire to save the priestly Society of St. Pius of the God who is the joy of our more the hymn of deliverance, victory and peace. souls from sin, to snatch them from X concentrates its work in the youth. the clutches of the devil, the clutches Amen.

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had decided that. And from the beginning of understanding, she could not understand And can we count as well on October the seminary of Wi- of the Blessed Virgin's existence, we see what these words meant, and she left the your prayers for vocations from nona, U.S.A., and two more that, in fact, the Blessed Virgin is wholly grotto on her way to her pastor’s house Ireland? This is the Land of the will soon follow to Holy Cross filled with the Holy Ghost. She is shown to repeating these words which she did not us as a contemplative, and living in the understand, to make sure she would not Mass; Ireland’s loyalty to the Seminary, in Goulburn, Austra- presence of God, speaking little, reflecting forget them. The history of the life of Latin Mass is imperishable, be- lia, God willing. Your prayers on all the words which Our Lord said. At Bernadette tells us that it was at that times she deemed it right to discreetly moment that the parish priest of Lourdes, cause it is sealed and confirmed and sacrifices will contribute to intervene, as at the marriage feast of Cana, Pere Pomian, was truly convinced by the by the blood of martyrs. determine their resolution; in and this was to teach us her whole gospel: apparitions at Lourdes. He realized that "Do whatever He shall tell you." This is the the poor little shepherdess was incapable of Founded upon the Mass, the this spirit we invite you to add gospel of our Holy Virgin Mary. inventing this herself, and that the dogma very identity of our country to your daily rosary the power- had been proclaimed four years before by Again, she was present at Calvary as the the Sovereign Pontiff. Thus it was asks for priestly vocations. A ful prayer: Oh, Lord, grant us Mother of the Eternal Priest, at the offering confirmed by the Blessed Virgin herself that glorious missionary past is the Priests! Oh, Lord, grant us holy of Our Lord Jesus Christ, for she also was she was the Immaculate Conception. crucified with Our Lord. If St. Paul could still recent witness. Priests! Oh Lord, grant us many say, " Confixus sure cruci - I am nailed to the What lesson, then, must we draw from this holy Priests! Oh, Lord, grant us Cross with Christ," how much more could history of the Blessed Virgin Mary and her the Blessed Virgin Mary say it! Immaculate Conception? For all of us who I think I already quoted the su- many holy religious vocations! have been baptized, we who in a certain perb address of Archbishop St. Pius X, pray for us! Again, she was also present at the moment sense have received more than others of Pentecost, when the Apostles received because of the offices we may occupy in Glennon of St. Louis, U.S.A., to the Holy Ghost - she who was already filled Holy Church - all of us: If the Blessed Virgin a quarter of a million Irish ador- As the Nativity of Our Saviour with the Holy Ghost, she did not need to Mary was Immaculate in her Conception it receive Him again but through her is because she was to be the Mother of Our ers at the great Eucharistic Con- approaches, your priests in mediation, the Apostles received Him. Lord Jesus Christ, because she had to carry gress in Dublin, that "Italy may Dublin and Athlone, with Finally the Blessed Virgin Mary went up to within herself Our Lord, the Son of God, have her glorious basilicas, Brother Gerard-Francis, extend heaven, not only in her soul but also in her because she was charged with giving Him body, and thus was this extraordinary life to the world, because she was to live in France her stately cathedrals, to you and to your dear ones of hers completed; a life unique in the proximity with Him, to be His Mother. England her regrets, but Ireland their best wishes and prayers history of humanity, but foreseen by God We Christians, who receive Holy has her holy places, her martyrs for a holy Advent and a happy from all eternity. Communion, do we not receive the same The influence of the Blessed Virgin Mary Jesus Christ, the same Body, which was and especially her Mass-Rocks. Christmastide. has not ceased. Even now in heaven, the conceived by the Blessed Virgin Mary? We But more than that, in the hearts Blessed Virgin Mary continues to be the receive Him in us, in our bodies….in our of her people dwells a faith in May the Holy Family reward Mother of the Mystical Body of Our Lord, souls. If it was decreed that the Blessed the Mother of the Church, the Mother of Virgin Mary was to be immaculate in her the Mass as adamantine as the your constant support, loyalty, our souls. She shows it, she proves it, she conception, so that she might receive the granite walls that guard their affection, and example. proves it in every one of us, but she also Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ, His soul, His proves it in her apparitions. Is it not divinity, must we not also be pure? Not island shore." Such is the treas- admirable to think that after the Sovereign that we can be immaculate in our ure we defend! Pontiff Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of conception, but may our souls be the Immaculate Conception as a revealed immaculate, by our prayers, by our truth, that the Blessed Virgin Mary was dispositions, by our efforts, by the grace of Surely the Master of the Vine- Immaculate from her Conception - already God . . . to win this privilege that the four years later on March 21, 1858, the Blessed Virgin had by the gift of Our Lord yard is calling a number of our Blessed Virgin herself said to little Jesus Christ, may we by our prayers and by young Irish to join His labour- Bernadette, the little shepherdess, "I am the the grace of God obtain the grace of Immaculate Conception." having immaculate souls to receive Our ers. One of our men entered last Lord Jesus Christ. Remember that Bernadette was incapable We must! We must live without sin, we 10 St John's Bulletin December 2008 December 2008 St John's Bulletin 7

The Archbishop Speaks The Miraculous Novena of Grace The Month of Prayer to Saint Francis Xavier December November 25th - December 3rd Sermon of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Ecône, December 8, 1972 sanctified ost amiable and most Month dedicated to the Mloving Saint Francis Xa- vier, in union with thee I Feast of the Immaculate Conception Holy Child Jesus reverently adore the Divine Maj- Offer 1st Friday Communion to esty. I rejoice exceedingly on My dear friends, my dear brethren, Immaculate account of the marvelous gifts which God bestowed Conception, was the Sacred Heart of Jesus As the whole liturgy of today shows us, Offer 1st Saturday Communion in upon thee. I thank God for the special graces He becoming more gave thee during thy life on earth and for the great God, in His wisdom, had long ago prepared and more precise the whole time. honour and reparation to the for us the most Blessed Virgin Mary. It was Immaculate Heart of Mary glory that came to thee after thy death. I implore thee to obtain for me, through thy powerful inter- not just at the moment of her birth on The image of the Blessed Virgin Mary can On the 5th starts the Novena of St cession, the greatest of all blessings, that of living and earth that God decreed to exempt her also be found in the holy women of the Old Lucy dying in the state of grace. I also beg of thee to se- from all sin, and to make her the Testament. Think of the account of Sarah, On the 8th, Great Feast of the cure for me the special favour I ask in this novena. Immaculate Conception but already in the wife of Tobias, on whose behalf an Immaculate Conception, Patroness (Here you may mention the grace, spiritual or tem- eternity, which preceded the creation of angel bound up the demon and cast him of the SSPX the world. far into the desert. She is an image of the poral, that you wish to obtain.) In asking this favour, On the 10th starts the Novena of I am fully resigned to the Divine Will. I pray and Blessed Virgin Mary, "before whom the the Expectation of Our Lady The epistle today recalls this fact, applying devil must flee, and whom the devil fears." desire only to obtain that which is most conducive to to the Most Holy Virgin the words of the Ember Days of Advent on the the greater glory of God and the greater good of my The Virgin Mary was not under the empire 17th, 19th and 20th eternal Wisdom; already the Holy Virgin of Satan for an instant, a single instant. soul. was in the mind of God – " iam concepta On the 17th starts the Major V. Pray for us, Saint Francis Xavier. eram - I was already conceived" - yes, The story of Judith also illustrates the role of Antiphons and the Novena of R. That we may be made worthy of the promises of conceived in the mind of God, and thus the most Holy Virgin Mary. She delivered Christmas Christ. Let us pray: already in the divine plan God was the people of Israel from the hands of On the 24th, Vigil of the Nativity O God, Who didst vouchsafe, by the preaching and thinking of the Virgin Mary. Already He Holofernes. In cutting off the head of On the last day of the year, Plenary miracles of Saint Francis Xavier, to join unto Thy wished to fill her with all His graces, and to Holofernes Judith saved Israel, and in like Indulgence for the public chant of Church the nations of the Indies, grant, we beseech give her this extraordinary privilege of the manner the Blessed Virgin, by cutting off the Te Deum Thee, that we who reverence his glorious merits may Immaculate Conception, exempting her the head of the devil in a certain sense, Suggested resolution for the also imitate his example, through Jesus Christ Our from all sin: " Tota pulchra es, Maria, et saved the people of God. Lord. Amen. Pater, Ave, Gloria macula originalis non est in te - Thou art all month : Keep Christ in Christmas! fair, O Mary, and there is no stain of Thus during the whole course of history God original sin in thee." wished that we be reminded of the most Holy Virgin; the Blessed Virgin Mary was So already in eternity, before the creation always present to God and in the plan of Intention for the Eucharistic Crusade of the world, God was thinking of this God and thus from her birth the Blessed admirable creature, the first of His Virgin Mary was exempt from all sin. At the for the month of December 2008 creatures after our Lord Jesus Christ moment of her birth she was filled with the That Crusaders be on fire for the Crusade

Himself. All during the course of history Holy Ghost, and yet again even more so - if which preceded the birth of the Blessed such be possible - at the moment when the Virgin, during the whole history of Angel Gabriel came to announce that she SEPTEMBER 2008 R ESULTS humanity, God was thinking of the Blessed would be the Mother of the Savior. Behold The Intention was for Catholic Schools Virgin. We see it during the entire history of what the Angel said to the Blessed Virgin: the Old Testament - already, immediately "Thou art full of grace, overflowing with Treasure Communions Decades Visits to 15 mins Morning Good Sheets Masses Sacrifices of the Blessed of after the sin of Adam and Eve, God said to grace, and the Holy Ghost shall descend Offering Example Adam and Eve, "I will place an enmity upon thee and overshadow thee." returned Sac. Spirit. Rosary Sacrament meditation between thee and the woman….. She shall crush thy head." So already the Virgin Mary How could the Holy Ghost be present with 40 1176 252 230 810 1574 5680 70 220 1241 had been foreseen by the Spirit of God and the devil in the soul of the most Holy her preparation, the preparation for her Virgin? There could be no stain in the soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary; already God 8 St John's Bulletin December 2008 DecemberSSPX Masses2008 in Ireland St John's - Bulletin Locations and Times 9

Liturgical calendar for December 2008 St John’s Athlone Cork Belfast Newry Tralee Cashel Monday 1 Ferial, III class 1 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Tuesday 2 St Bibiana, III class 2 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Wednesday 3 St Francis Xavier, III class 3 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Thursday 4 St Peter Chrysologus, St Barbara, III class FIRST THURSDAY 4 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Friday 5 Ferial, St Sabbas, III class Abstinence FIRST FRIDAY 5 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Saturday 6 St Nicolas, III class FIRST SATURDAY 6 11 am 11 am Sunday 7 Second Sunday of Advent, I class 7 9 am & 11 am 11 am 11 am 11 am 8.30 am 5 pm Monday 8 Immaculate Conception, I class Holy Day of Obligation 8 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Tuesday 9 Ferial, III class 9 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Wednesday 10 Ferial, III class 10 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Thursday 11 St Damasus, III class 11 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Friday 12 Ferial, Our Lady of Guadalupe, III class Abstinence St Finnian of Clonard 12 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Saturday 13 St Lucy, III class 13 11 am 11 am Sunday 14 Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, I class 14 9 am & 11 am 11 am 11 am 11 am 8.30 am 5 pm Monday 15 Ferial, III class 15 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Tuesday 16 St Eusebius, III class Ember Days are traditionally 16 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Wednesday 17 Ember Day, II class days of fast and abstinence 17 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Thursday 18 Ferial, II class St Flannan, 1st Bishop of Killaloe 18 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Friday 19 Ember Day, II class Abstinence 19 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Saturday 20 Ember Day, II class 20 11 am 11 am Sunday 21 Fourth Sunday of Advent, I class , St Thomas, Apostle 21 9 am & 11 am 11 am 11 am 11 am 8.30 am Monday 22 Ferial, II class 22 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Tuesday 23 Ferial, II class 23 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Wednesday 24 Vigil of the Nativity, I class 24 11 am 11 am Midnight & Midnight & Thursday 25 Nativity of Our Lord Jesus-Christ, I class Holy Day of Obligation 25 11 am 11 am 8.30 am 9 am & 11 am 11 am Friday 26 St Stephen, II class Abstinence 26 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Saturday 27 St John the Evangelist, II class (I class in St John’s Church) 27 11 am 11 am Sunday 28 Sunday in the Octave of Christmas, II class, The Holy Innocents 28 9 am & 11 am 11 am 11 am 11 am 8.30 am Monday 29 Within the Octave of Christmas, St Thomas of Canterbury, II class 29 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Tuesday 30 Within the Octave of Christmas, II class 30 11 am & 6.30 pm 11 am Wednesday 31 Within the Octave of Christmas, St Sylvester, II class 31 11 am & 6.30 pm 11am/6. 30pm

Thursday 1 Octave of the Nativity, I class FIRST THURSDAY 1