Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost October 20, 2013 St. John Cantius, C Volume 1, Issue 7

Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel

A Fatima Weekend The sun shone down on Stepney Green last Satur- day for our annual Public Square Rosary Rally. A decent crowd gathered at noon around the band- stand, for what was one of the 10,500 such rallies held throughout the country that day. And despite a little gusty breeze that was enough Our Lady of the Rosary to blow over our sign a 15 Pepper Street couple of times, the Monroe CT 06468 weather cooperated and (203) 261-8290 a cloudless heaven smiled down as Fr. Rodriguez led the assembly in the Emergencies: (203) 268-9200 fifteen decades of Our Lady’s holy Rosary. www.rosarychapel.net Fr. Adan Rodriguez (Pastor) [email protected] HOLY MASS Sundays: 7:00 & 10:00 am Weekdays: 7:00 & 8:00 am CONFESSIONS Sundays 6:40—6:55 am 9:15—9:55 am Weekdays 6:40—6:55am And by appointment HOLY ROSARY Sundays: 9:40 am First Saturdays: 8:45 am CALENDAR

DATE FEAST TIME INTENTION

Sun Oct 20 22nd Sunday after Pentecost 7:00 am St. John Cantius, C 10:00 am Missa pro Populo G

Mon Oct 21 St. Hilarion, Ab 8:00 am Catholic Family Salvation Society St. Ursula & Companions, Mm W

Tue Oct 22 Feria 7:00 am Catholic Family Salvation Society G 8:00 am (Requiem Mass) Trevor Hall, RIP

Wed Oct 23 Feria 7:00 am Catholic Family Salvation Society G 8:00 am Nicole McGovern

Thu Oct 24 St. Raphael Archangel 7:00 am Maria & George Schmitt, RIP W 8:00 am Ray Heche

Fri Oct 25 Ss. Chrysanthus & InsideDaria, Mm Story Headline8:00 am José Linero, RIP R

Sat Oct 26 Anticipated Vigil of Ss. Simon & 8:00 am Alejandro Linero Jude, App St. Evaristus, PM

Sun Oct 27 Our Lord Jesus Christ the King 7:00 am 23rd Sunday after Pentecost 10:00 am Missa pro Populo W

MASS TODAY Please submit your Mass requests to Father Rodri- MASSMASS NEXT TODAY SUNDAY guez via e-mail or in person, specifying the intention, Our Lord Jesus Christ the King 22nd Sunday after Pentecost whether the person is living or deceased, and if a 18th Sunday after Pentecost (Mission Sunday) specific date is required.  2nd Collect: St.23rd Thomas Sunday of  2nd Collect: St. John Can- Villanova,after Pentecost BC tius, C To pray for the living and the dead is a spiritual work  3rdPreface: Collect Christ: St. theMaurice King &  3rd Collect: For the Propa- of mercy. Remember your loved ones by having a  Companions,Proper Last Gospel: Mm 23rd gation of the Faith Mass said for their intentions.  Preface:Sunday after Trinity Pentecost  Preface: Trinity

2 A Fatima Weekend (continued) ANNOUNCEMENTS Our thanks to all who participated, and especially to Mrs. June Sheahan who organized this event. It is important to remember, especially on this Mission Sunday, that people need to witness the Catholic faith at work. In Second Collection our Rosary for the Church, our country, and the countless poor sinners who stand in so much need of our prayers, we were able to give testimony There will be a second col- not only to our faith in the intercession of Our Blessed Lady, but to our lection taken today at both love for God and our neighbor. Masses. The weather deteriorated later in the day, but the next morning, the sun came up again in splendor to shine anew on our belated Rosary Proces- sion. We had not been so lucky the week before, when it rained just Apple Sauce enough to cause the procession to be postponed until now. But while the shining of the sun was not in itself miraculous, perhaps the fact that we Evidently, word has spread had unwittingly rescheduled the Rosary Procession to the anniversary day how good our homemade of the Miracle of the Sun apple sauce is, and our sec- at Fatima did have some- thing of the hand of God ond week of Apple Sauce in it. Sales raised even more money than the first, bring- With the chanting of the Fatima Ave, priest, choir, ing in $55 for the school. honor guard, faithful, Thanks to a donation of yet made their way around more apples, we are able to the church, the blue robes of the Children of Mary in striking contrast to provide more apple sauce the reds, golds, and browns of the falling autumn leaves. It was a colorful this week. Please note that reminder how Our Blessed Mother will remain in the hearts of her chil- dren at Rosary Chapel not only throughout the coming chill of winter, but this is freshly made, and not indeed in all their joys, their sorrows, and their glories. leftovers from last week!. Hopefully your generosity in

supporting this school pro- ject will mean there will be no leftovers this week ei- ther.

Mass Times This Week

Please note that there will be no 7:00 am Mass on Monday, Friday or Saturday.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS (cont.) Mission Sunday and Propaganda Fide Apart from being the 22nd Sunday after spread of Catholicism around the globe.

Pentecost today, it is also the day desig- The faith had been severely eroded in Christ the King nated by Pope Pius XI as Mission Sun- Europe thanks to the protestant revolt, day. On this day we pray for the ad- and now to make matters worse, two of Next week is the last Sun- vancement of the work of the Propaga- the countries who had left the faith, day of October and the tion of the Faith, or Propaganda Fide, England and Holland, were establishing and some of you may have noticed that huge global empires and spreading Feast of the Christ the King. the third Collect at Mass today was for their errors across the world. Pope Our annual procession in his this very intention. The Church further Gregory XIII (1572-85) established a honor will take place after emphasizes the importance of its mis- commission of three cardinals whose the 10:00 am High Mass. sionary work by granting a Plenary In- chief task was to promote the union of dulgence on Mission Sunday to all the the oriental churches with . They Please check the sign-up faithful who approach the Sacrament had some success with the return to sheet downstairs, and make and pray for the conversion of unbeliev- Rome of the nation of Ruthenia. sure you can resume the ers. Although it had role you had at last Sun- already been func- day’s Rosary Procession. tioning in a semi- informal manner, it

was Pope Gregory Choir Practice XV (1621-23) who officially founded Choir practice is at 4:00 pm the Congregation as on Friday afternoon to pre- the overseer of missionary work on pare for the Feast of Christ behalf of the vari- the King. ous missionary in- stitutions. Thirteen

cardinals and two Christmas Crafts Tag Sale Palazzo di Propaganda Fide, Rome prelates were sum- moned by Pope Gregory and given the Although it’s over a month The Church’s missionary work falls un- task of organizing and running the new away, it’s not too early to der the jurisdiction of the Sacred Con- Congregation. Sadly, the Pope died gregation for the Propagation of the before the work had been completed. mention that we will be Faith, known for short as Propaganda However, his successor, Urban VIII holding our annual Christ- Fide, and which has its headquarters in (1623-44), who as Cardinal Barberini mas Crafts Tag Sale on the Rome next to the famous Spanish Steps. had been one of the thirteen founding Saturday after Thanksgiving. The Palace is one of the few remaining cardinals, was committed to the com- buildings in Rome outside Vatican City pletion of his predecessor’s project. Please start thinking about which is still considered Vatican territo- how you can contribute to ry and not Italian. Urban VIII was inspired by the success this important fundraiser, of the various national colleges in Rome especially by making or In the sixteenth and early seventeenth which had been founded after the centuries, Rome saw clearly the ever- Council of Trent to train priests who providing items for sale. greater need to provide an organized had no seminaries in their own country. Congregation that would oversee the The English College in Rome is one fa-

4 Mission Sunday and Propaganda Fide (continued)

Propaganda Fide. Eventually in 1908, Pope St. Pius X removed countries that had their own Catholic hierarchy established, and so the USA, Canada, Britain and Holland left the list of nations under the care of the Congrega- tion. This might explain why Father Hall could not get directions to the English College in Rome when he knocked on the door of the Palace of the Propaganda Fide last year. The guard was very pleasant and was able to give good directions to some of the better local res- taurants. But even when he called inside the palace on his cell phone to ask around, alas, the location of one of the greatest of the national missionary colleges was now unknown to the Sacred Congregation of the Propaganda Fide.

Inside the Palace today, the Congregation possesses an important cabinet of medals and many ethnological curi- osities sent as gifts by missionaries in far distant lands. Scattered through the Palace of Propaganda are many valuable paintings of the old masters. Propaganda also conducted, until the early twentieth century, the famous Polyglot printing press whence, for some centuries, is- sued liturgical and catechetical books, printed in a multi- tude of alphabets. Among its most noteworthy curios is a Japanese alphabet in wooden blocks, one of the first seen in Europe.

The Catholic Encyclopedia notes the following notewor- Pope Urban VIII (1623-44) thy customs of the Propaganda Fide, although it is un- mous example, and after ordination, its priests would be clear if these traditions have survived to the present day: smuggled into the virulently anti-Catholic England of the “One of the customs of Propaganda, worthy of special first Queen Elizabeth, often to meet their death onTy- mention, is the gift of a fan to all employees at the begin- burn Tree. Hoping to apply the success of these national ning of the summer. This custom appears to have arisen seminaries in a wider sphere, Pope Urban founded a in the early days, when fans were sent from China by the missionary seminary in Rome in 1627, which was named missionaries. It is customary for the Urban College to the Collegium Urbanum after him, and which was placed hold, at Epiphany, a solemn "Accademia Polyglotta", to under the direction of the rapidly growing Propaganda symbolize the world-wide unity of the . Fide. At this accademia the Propaganda students recite poems in their respective mother tongues. Invited guests always At first, the work of the Congregation was extended to find it very interesting to listen to this medley of the almost all countries that were non-Catholic. Thus the strangest languages and dialects. Another custom of the United States and Canada, Great Britain, the protestant Urban College is that every graduate student (alumno), kingdoms, principalities and duchies of what is now Ger- wherever he may be in the pursuit of his ministry, is many, Luxembourg and Switzerland, Scandinavia, Hol- bound to write every year a letter to the cardinal prefect, land and so on, were all territories under the charge of to let him know how the writer's work is progressing and

5 Mission Sunday and Propaganda Fide (continued) ALTAR SERVERS how he fares himself. The cardinal answers immediately, in a letter of paternal en- couragement and counsel. By this means there is maintained a bond of affection Saturday, October 26 and of mutual goodwill between the "great mother" — as the "Propagandists", or the alumni of Propaganda, designate the congregation — and her most distant Michael Mendes sons.”

Sunday, October 27 In 1982 John Paul II renamed Propaganda Fide, and it is known today as the Congre- 10:00 High Mass gation for the Evangelization of Peoples. Although it claims to maintain its original mission unbroken, the emphasis these days appears to be directed away from the Celebrant: Fr. Rodriguez conversion of protestants and other non-Catholics, and more towards the spread of the faith among the far-flung pagan tribes of the various third world countries. Of MC: David Bouton course other more trendy notions have crept in to the work of Propaganda, and Th: James Morris social issues such as the spread of democracy and women’s rights appear to be Ac1: Paul Richardson gaining prominence. We shall leave history to resolve this mounting problem.

Ac2: Sam Richardson Here at Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel we remain very much concerned with the Cr: Giovanni Linero conversion of non-Catholics, and observe the Chair of Unity Octave in January with prayers for this intention. But our most pressing concern these days is with the spread of modernism within the Church, and with this in mind we ask you this week following Mission Sunday to pray for the conver- sion of modernists everywhere, and especially those within the cler- gy and hierarchy of the Church. There is urgent work remaining for Propaganda Fide, and unfortunately they no longer need to look far beyond the Spanish Steps to find it.

Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel operates a thriving parish, guide you towards a fuller understanding of what your own complete with full-time Catholic school for grades K through role should be in these difficult times in which we live. 12. Two Masses are offered daily, and various devotions and other ceremonies are provided during the course of the Our aim is to preserve the truth and beauty of our Catholic liturgical year. Our parish guilds offer wonderful opportuni- heritage. We invite all of you to participate in this our apos- ties to become more involved as your time and interests tolate, and in particular by becoming shining examples of permit. We are always looking for volunteers to serve our true Faith by your everyday life, both spiritual and mor- Mass, sing in the choir, or work in the church and on the al. God calls us all to perfection, and our role is to answer property and grounds. The enthusiastic participation of our that call with all our love and enthusiasm. Come and be a parishioners is one of the hallmarks of Our Lady of the Ro- part of this work, which was founded not so much by good sary Chapel, and we welcome your support and talents. Father Fenton in 1972, but by Our Lord Jesus Christ himself, when he gave the keys of his kingdom to St. Peter. This is Newcomers are particularly welcome, and we invite you to none other than the Roman Catholic Church, and at Our introduce yourself to one of our priests. He will be able to Lady of the Rosary Chapel we are proud to be an instrument answer your questions concerning the traditional Mass for its continuation, and the preservation of its Faith and and the crisis in the Catholic Church since Vatican II, and Liturgy.

6 St. John Cantius, Patron of

terred in the Church of St. Anne, Krakow, where his tomb became and remains a popular pilgrimage site.

About sixty years after his , he was named patron of Poland and by Pope Clement XII in the year 1737, and another thirty years later in 1767, was canonized by Pope Clement XIII.

St. John Cantius is a popular saint in Poland. A number of churches and schools founded by communities throughout are named in his honor, in cities as far-ranging as , Winni- peg, , ; , , Philadel- phia, Erie; Buffalo, and City.

Unique in the Roman Breviary, today's saint is the only Confessor not a who has three proper hymns allocated to him. These are sung at Vespers, Matins and Lauds.

St. John Cantius, also known as John of Kanty (1390- 1473) is the of Poland and Lithuania. He was born near Krakow, where he attended the famous Jagellonian Academy, graduating with a doctorate. He then spent three years preparing for the priesthood, at the end of which he was ordained.

Upon his ordination, he was offered a professorship at another university, which he accepted. While there, he was offered a professorship of Sacred Scripture back at the Jagellonian. He accepted, and held the professorship until his death in 1473. In , he helped develop 's theory of "impetus," which anticipated the work of Galileo and Newton.

John Cantius was noted throughout his life for his good humor and humility. He subsisted only on what was strictly necessary to sustain his life, giving alms regularly to the poor. He made one pilgrimage to Jeru- salem with the desire of becoming a martyr among the Turks, and four pilgrimages to Rome, all on foot.

He died while living in retirement at his alma mater on Christmas Eve 1473, aged 83. His remains were in- Tomb of St. John Cantius, St. Anne’s Church, Krakow

7 VISIT US ON THE WEB A Message from the Pastor For up-to-date information, such as last-minute changes Today is Mission Sunday so please take advantage of the to the Mass schedule, spe- Plenary Indulgence granted by cial prayer requests, and the Church to all those who re- other breaking news, please ceive Holy Communion today and refer to our website at: pray for the conversion of un- believers. We ask that your www.rosarychapel.net prayers be directed especially towards those afflicted with You will also find a wealth the heresy of modernism, alas so prevalent amongst both of information about Our faithful and clergy since Vati- Lady of the Rosary Chapel, can II. Your prayers can help including our history, mis- restore the Church to her for- sion statement, guild activi- mer beauty of holiness, so be ties, and school curriculum. persistent in your petitions to We hope you will find our the merciful God of truth. God site a valuable resource, bless you. and will help us by sending your stories and photos of life at our chapel. Fr. Adan Rodriguez

NOTICE TO NEWCOMERS Founded in 1973 in the wake of the disastrous Second Vatican Council, the mission of Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel is to maintain and restore as far as possible the traditional faith, values and liturgical practice of the Roman Catholic Church, and to provide a haven of sanctity where men and women of good will may grow in love for God and their neighbor.

Please don’t hesitate to introduce yourself and ask questions. After Mass come to the Social Hall, and join us for coffee and refresh- ments.

We welcome Spanish-speakers, and confessions are heard in Span- ish and English every Sunday and by appointment with the pastor.

We hope your visit with us is a pleasant one, and we look forward to seeing you again and welcoming you as a member of Our Lady of the Rosary.