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12 OCTOBER 26, 2014 Our Lady of the Rosary Chapel Christ the King 20th Sunday after Pentecost Volume 2 Issue 43 Christ the King Our Lady of the Rosary 15 Pepper Street Monroe CT 06468 (203) 261-8290 Emergencies: (203) 268-9200 www.rosarychapel.net Fr. Adan Rodriguez (Pastor) [email protected] HOLY MASS Sundays: 7:00 & 10:00 am We are honored this week with a visit by Bishop “A CONTRA CORAZÓN” Weekdays: 8:00 am Andres Morello, and Father Ramirez. Please Saturdays: 7:00 am join us today in welcoming His Excellency back May God bless you, CONFESSIONS to our chapel, where he will perform the We write these lines à contre cœur because Sacrament of Confirmation at 9:15 am and Sundays polemics and criticism are never our offer the High Mass at 10:00. A reception will 6:40—6:55 am intention. We are Religious and we want to 9:15—9:55 am be held after the morning services. live as such, seeking to be and do good. For Weekdays In light of certain public criticisms that have our part, our only enemies are those of God 6:40—6:55am been leveled recently, Bishop Morello has asked Our Lord and the Holy Catholic Church; so and by appointment us to publish the following letter. The Spanish much more those who are trying to defend HOLY ROSARY the Faith in the middle of this huge crisis, title translates literally as “against our heart,” Sundays: 9:40 am i.e. à contre cœur, against our wishes, which is wounding souls, are not our First Saturdays: 8:00 am inclinations, and sentiments; reluctantly. enemies. Even so, even though we have no . ANNOUNCEMENTS The Mass Schedule this week has several modifications. See page 3 for details. MASS THIS WEEK: Christ the King, with Second Collect of 20th Sunday after Pentecost, Preface of Christ the King, and Proper Last Gospel of Sunday st MASS NEXT WEEK: 21 Sunday after Pentecost, with Second Collect of the Octave of All Saints. Preface of Trinity. 43 OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL enemies among those who want to serve God, in these last founded and documented by a layman, whose career is well- few months and weeks we have been the object of known, who knew how to apply the evangelical principles with criticisms, always indirectly, since no one has told us them more coherence than some Priests in the Traditional Movement. personally, always to third parties, which can sow uncertainty among good souls or make people believe that Let us move on to the point which occupies us in these lines. we do not fulfill our obligations before God or before Holy Since some time ago, almost two years, at His Excellency Bp. Church. These criticisms have a foundation not related to John Hesson’s O.S.B. request, we dedicated our attention to the truth, justice and Christian Charity. We are not seeking to Dominican Brothers of Sacred Heart Church in Lawrence, MA, defend ourselves but rather to simply show that if we help U.S.A. These Dominican Brothers were approved as such by His or assist third parties it is because it was good to do so and Excellency Bp. Robert McKenna, O.P. and were assisted by him. right to continue doing so, and because it is good and right, When he could no longer do so, he entrusted this task to Bp. John and we have the right and probably the obligation to do it. Hesson, who, in his turn, because of his age and state of health, The Holy Catholic Church, even in the middle of this most asked us to succeed him in this task. It was he who solicited that difficult situation which She has been traversing since we confer the Orders on Bro. Paul Quigley in accordance with Vatican II, and maybe since before that, is not reduced to the intervals ordained by Canon Law in 1917, and who testified to th one determined group of faithful Priests or to only one the formation, studies and integrity of the candidate. On June 7 , Seminary of ecclesiastical formation. 2013 we conferred the Subdiaconate on the same in Lawrence, MA without anyone objecting. Likewise we conferred the sacred The affirmation of Our Lord in the Holy Gospels remains Diaconate on March 24th, 2014 at our Monastery in Patagonia, valid: “Respondens autem Ioannes (Apostolus) dixit: Præceptor, Argentina since we couldn’t travel to the U.S.A. because of a vidimus quendam in nomine tuo eiicientem dæmonia, et major surgical operation we had to have and the subsequent prohibuimus eum: quia non sequitur nobiscum. Et ait ad illum convalescence. A few days before this last ordination we received, Jesus: Nolite prohibere: qui enim non est adversum vos, pro vobis indirectly, criticisms about the same, to which we responded, est.” (S. Lc. Cap. IX, Vs. 49-50)—“And John (the Apostle), with proof in hand, with a writing entitled “Our Reasons” and answering, said: Master, we saw one casting out demons in which is include with these lines. Drawing close now to the sacred Thy name and we forbade him it because, he followeth not Priestly Ordination of the same candidate (October 25th, 2014 in with us. And Jesus said to him: Forbid him not; for he that is Lawrence, MA) an ecclesiastic of prominent hierarchy (to whom not against you is for you.” we offer the charity of not naming although he didn’t have it when he formed his evaluations) called a trustworthy Priest on the To cast out demons it is necessary to have integrally the phone, asserting that we would be ordaining a candidate who Faith of the Holy Catholic Church and Her Morals. To make lacks the sufficient formation. The accusation isn’t a slight one an appraising judgment on the Faith and Morals of a third when we consider the requirements of Canon Law. Canon Law party, especially when it comes to a Priest or a Bishop, states, regarding an ordination that is to be given, that the Bishop neither is it enough to repeat arguments found on the should use the testimony of the Religious Superior concerned as internet (otherwise all of us would be worthy of his guide (Canon 993, par. 2, 3, 4 and 5); in this case we depend defamations) nor to propose a sentence without having on the attestation to the ordinand’s moral and intellectual reliably established what we say. What is more, if something suitability signed by His Excellency Bp. John Hesson. Likewise is afflicting our conscience, applying the remedy where the attestation of the Religious Superior with the details of all his we’re not wounded is not good medicine. This is what’s studies and courses completed and the hours in each subject since done when, without saying anything to the persons November of 2003 when the candidate entered the Religious Life implicated, someone writes or talks to third parties, (11 years ago). The testimony of Rev. Fr. Joseph Bachtiger who sometimes, in addition, asking them not to divulge the name was his teacher and the testimony of Rev. Fr. Adán Rodríguez, a of the person who made the criticism; it is even more member of our Company, who is in charge of Our Lady of the serious when, as happened a little while ago in France, most Rosary Chapel in Monroe, CT, U.S.A. with whom the candidate grave accusations were hurled, which were completely has been living since almost two years ago and who has been able destroyed by the written intervention, signed and amply to verify his progress in his studies and his moral and spiritual life, (he has been confessing and doing his spiritual direction with our 3 M A S S S C H E D U L E Sun Oct 26 Christ the King 7:00 am (Fr. Ramirez) Giovanni Cerra, RIP th 20 Sunday after Pentecost 9:15 am Confirmations W 10:00 am (Bp. Morello) High Mass, Procession, Benediction 5:00 pm (Bp. Morello) Mass & Confirmations in New Jersey Private Mass (Fr. Rodriguez) Jim Chetlen Private Mass (Fr. Hall) Father Paul Quigley Mon Oct 27 Vigil of Ss. Simon & 7:00 am (Fr. Ramirez) Michael Dolan, RIP Jude, App 8:00 am (Bp. Morello) Daniel, Michael & Sarah Bishop V Private Mass (Fr. Rodriguez) St. Anthony Bread 7:30 pm All Souls Guild Rosary Tue Oct 28 Ss. Simon & Jude, App 7:00 am (Bp. Morello) Christopher & Amy Della Donna R 8:00 am (Fr. Ramirez) Baby Emmeline Private Mass (Fr. Rodriguez) Conversion of Pagans Wed Oct 29 Feria Private Mass (Bp. Morello) G Private Mass (Fr. Ramirez) 11:30 am (Fr. Rodriguez) Conversion of Heretics Thu Oct 30 Feria 8:00 am Company of Jesus & Mary G Fri Oct 31 Vigil of All Saints 8:00 am Omar Sanchez FAST AND ABSTINENCE V Sat Nov 1 All Saints 10:00 am Missa pro Populo HOLYDAY OF OBLIGATION 7:00 pm George Cleary W Sun Nov 2 21st Sunday after 7:00 am Pentecost 10:00 am Missa Pro Populo Within the Octave of All Saints G 65 OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY CHAPEL Priest during that time). Munari (later retired to the secular life) and of Bp. Storck O.P. (partisan of the Fichte philosophy) which were both performed All of this is sufficient argument to proceed with the priestly by His Excellency Bp. Guérard des Lauriers whose orthodoxy ordination without any fear of conscience, even more, trusting or right intention no one would doubt, for having consecrated that the candidate and his Religious Community will be a great bishops who (later) had improper and lamentable conduct benefit to souls and to the good of the restoration of Holy which, without a doubt, he could not have foreseen.