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Patrick's Oratory Are Going to Have Their First Ever Plant the Seeds of Faith Among the Pagan Native Indians PATRICK’S ORATORY DEDICATED TO OUR LADY OF FATIMA CHURCH & R ECTORY ADDRESS 211 N. Maple Ave. Green Bay, WI 54303 Phone (920) 437-9660 Fax (920) 437-5154 [email protected] www.institute-christ-king.org/greenbay ORATORY CLERGY The Very Reverend Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz Vicar General The Reverend Canon Matthew Talarico Provincial Superior The Reverend Canon Antoine Boucheron R e c t o r Why does He allow this to go on? St. Paul gives us the key in the Epistle for today: “Put on a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness and patience. Bear with one another and forgive one another… But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection… And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts… Show yourselves thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly. Whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through Jesus Christ our Lord.” If we strive to live like that, we will be able to deal with and triumph over all the evil and suffering that comes our way. Christ did it and He assures us that we also can do it with His grace – if we follow Him and imitate Him. Canon Antoine Boucheron NOVEMBER SAINT FELIX of VALOIS, Nov. 20 MONTH OF THE POOR SOULS Saint Felix was the son of the Count of Valois. His mother carried him to Saint Bernard at his monastery in Clairvaux, to offer him there to God when he was Please Continue to Pray for the three years old; she kept him, however, under her own care. She permitted him, Poor Souls in Purgatory throughout still young, to distribute the alms she was pleased to give to the poor. When the exiled Pope Innocent II sought refuge in France, the Count of Valois, father of the month of November Felix, offered his castle of Crepy to the Pontiff, who often blessed the young child. One day when Felix gave away his own habits to a poor beggar, he found Indulgences for the Poor Souls them that evening neatly laid on his bed; and he thanked God for this sign of His By the practice of Indulgences, the Church divine goodness, proving that one loses nothing when one gives to the poor. places at the charitable disposal of the faithful The unfortunate divorce of the parents of Felix, and the excommunication of the inexhaustible treasure accumulated, from his father who remarried and whose condemnation raised serious troubles in his age to age, by the superabundant satisfactions domains caused the young man to mature; he then formed a resolution to leave of the saints, added to those of the martyrs, the world. Confiding his mother to her pious brother, Thibault, Count of and united to those of our Blessed Lady and Champagne, Felix took the Cistercian habit at Clairvaux. His rare virtues drew so much admiration that, with Saint Bernard’s consent, he fled from it to Italy the infinite residue of our Lord's sufferings. where he began to live an austere life with an aged hermit in the Alps. The old These remissions of punishment she grants to hermit was able to procure the ordination of his disciple as a priest. the living by her own direct power; but she After his elderly counselor died in his arms, Saint Felix returned to France. He nearly always approves of and permits their built a cell in the diocese of Meaux in an uninhabited forest, later named application to the dead by way of suffrage, Cerfroid. There he led an angelic life of perpetual fasting. God inspired him with that is to say, in the manner in which, as we the desire of founding an Order for the redemption of Christian captives from have seen, each of the faithful may offer to the Moors. The Lord also moved Saint John of Matha, a young nobleman of God who accepts it, for another, the suffrage Provence, to seek out the hermit and join him. The two applied themselves to or succor of his own satisfactions. the practice of all virtues. It was John who proposed to Saint Felix the project of an Order for the redemption of captives when Felix was already seventy years — The Liturgical Year , Abbot Gueranger O.S.B. old. The latter gladly offered himself to God for that purpose, and after praying for three days the two made a pilgrimage to Rome in the middle of winter. They A partial indulgence, applicable only to the were kindly received by the Pope after he read the recommendation which the souls in purgatory, can be obtained when the Bishop of Paris had given them. He too prayed and became convinced that the Eternal Rest ( Requiem aeternam ) is prayed. This two Saints were inspired by the Holy Spirit, and he gave his approbation to the is a good prayer to recite especially during the Trinitarian Order month of November: Within forty years the Order would have six hundred monasteries. St. Felix founded St. Mathburn Convent in Paris in his seventies. Saint John, who was Eternal rest grant to them, O Lord, and let perpetual Superior General, left to Saint Felix the direction of the convents in France, light shine upon them. May the souls of the faithful exercised from the monastery which the founders had built at Cerfroid. There departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Saint Felix died in November of 1212, at the age of eighty-five, only about six Amen. weeks before his younger co-founder. It is a constant tradition in the Trinitarian Order that Saint Felix and Saint John were canonized by Urban IV in 1260, A Prayer for the Souls in Purgatory though no bull has ever been found. In 1219 already the feast of Saint Felix was O Most compassionate Jesus, have mercy on kept in the entire diocese of Meaux. In 1666 Alexander VI declared that the souls detained in Purgatory, for whose veneration of the servant of God was “immemorial”. redemption Thou didst take upon Thyself our Calendar of Upcoing Events nature and endure a bitter death. Mercifully Sunday, November 26 - Canon Fehrenbacher & Abbe’ Kevin Visit hear their sighs, look with pity upon the tears 10:00am First Mass followed by First Blessing - Welcome Social in O’Brien which they now shed before Thee, and by Saturday, December 2 - Meetings virtue of Thy Passion, release them from the Company of the Immaculate & St. Michaels Patrol pains due to their sins. O most merciful Jesus, Confraternity of Christian Mothers let Thy Precious Blood reach down into Following the 9:00am Mass Purgatory and refresh and revive the captive First Sunday of Advent, Dec. 3 - St. Nicholas Party souls who suffer there. Stretch out to them Following the 10:00am Mass in O’Brien Hall Thy strong right hand, and bring them forth Monday, Dec. 4 - St. Jerome Book Club into the place of refreshment, light and peace. Rectory 6:00pm Amen. Friday, Dec. 8 - Immaculate Conception of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary Eucharistic Adoration ~Holy Day of Obligation ~ Continues Friday, Nov. 24 Sat., December 16 - Christmas Cookie Walk & Craft Sale 2 Mass 8:00am/Adoration 8:45am - Noon 10:00am - 4:00pm O’Brien Hall LITURGICAL CALENDAR : N OVEMBER 19 - NOVEMBER 26, 2017 Sun., Nov. 19 Jim DeGroote Julius Fonferek 8:00 a.m. TWENTY -FOURTH by John DeGroote OPEN Low Mass/organ 10:00 a.m. SUNDAY AFTER †William Davis Sacristan: Jerry Jessel High Mass ENTECOST by Bill & Bridgett Mihalski MC: Peter Cisler Youth Choir P Thurifer: Jerry Jessel (2nd Cl., G ) Acolytes: Michael Simia Commemoration for the Pope & John Neumann Candle: Thomas Simia, Nicholas Reif, Aaron Ras- 6th Sunday after the Epiphany-Collects, Epistle and Gospel mussen, Paul Mihalski Crucifer: Nathan Reif Mon., Nov. 20 St. Felix de Valois, Confessor (3rd Cl., W) Com- †Arvilla Duquaine Tyler Reif 8:00 a.m. memoration for the Pope by John & Mary DePauw Nicholas Reif Tues., Nov. 21 Presentation of the Most Blessed Virgin †Jennifer Rasmussen John Kanzenbach 6:00 p.m. Mary (3rd Cl., R) Commemoration for the Pope by Conf. of Christian Mothers James Kanzenbach HOLY HOUR OF EUCHARISTIC ADORATION - following Holy Mass Wed., Nov. 22 St. Cecilia, Virgin & Martyr (3rd Cl., R) Com- †Norbert & Delores Traeger Andreas Kempen 8:00 a.m. memoration for the Pope by family OPEN Thurs., Nov.23 St. Clement I, Pope & Martyr (3rd Cl., R) Com- Orville & Carol Frisque Julius Fonferek 8:00 a.m. memoration for the Pope & St. Felicity, Martyr by Orville & Carol Frisque OPEN Fri., Nov. 24 St. John of the Cross, Confessor & Doctor of †Aaron & Mary Claflin Bart Stillwell 8:00 a.m. the Church (3rd Cl., W) Commemoration for the by Rick & Patty LeMere OPEN Pope & St. Chrysogonus, Martyr Eucharistic Adoration 8:45 - Noon Sat., Nov. 25 St. Catherine of Alexandria, Virgin & Martyr Mary Alice Oettinger John Neumann 9:00 a.m. (3rd Cl., R) Commemoration for the Pope by her daughter Vic Neumann Sun., Nov. 26 †John Petkus Michael Simia 8:00 a.m. TWENTY -FIFTH by Tom & Mary Roehrig Aaron Rasmussen Low Mass/organ 10:00 a.m. SUNDAY AFTER †Cecelia Westcott Sacristan & MC Paul Jessel High Mass by Orville & Carol Frisque Thurifer: John Kanzenbach Chorale PENTECOST Acolytes: Peter Cisler (2nd Cl., G ) & Jacob Mihalski Commemoration for the Pope Candle: James Kanzen- bach, Vic & John Neu- mann, Paul Mihalski Crucifer: Andreas Kempen CONFESSION SCHEDULE DEVOTION SCHEDULE Sunday ............. 7:15 - 7:45 a.m.
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