INSTITUTE OF CHRIST THE KING SOVEREIGN PRIEST VERITATEM FACIENTES IN CARITATE OLD ST. PATRICK ROMAN CATHOLIC ORATORY SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY February 4, A.D. 2018 - February 11, A.D. 2018 MASS TIMES Sunday: 8 a.m. & 10:15 a.m. Monday & Wednesday: 7 a.m. Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 6 p.m. Saturday: 8 a.m. Very Rev. Msgr. R. Michael Schmitz, Vicar General, and Delegate for the United States Rev. Canon Matthew Talarico, Provincial Superior Rev. Canon Francis Xavier Altiere, Rector www.Institute - C h r i s t - K i n g . o r g NEWS FROM THE VINEYARD: DEO GRATIAS! Dear Faithful, It is my pleasure to be able to announce to you the important graces received by our Institute family last week. On Sunday, two young men received the cassock as oblates (brothers) of the Institute, Abbé Raymond Schmidt from Wisconsin and Abbé John Trost from Wyoming. On our patronal feast of Saint Francis de Sales, five young ladies received the veil as Sister Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus in Florence from the hands of the Rt. Rev. Michael Campbell, O.S.A., bishop of Lancaster (England), including Miss Megan Silvey from Old Saint Patrick’s, whose new name in religious life is Sister Margaret Mary of the Passion of the Sovereign Priest. Finally, last Wednesday, Rev. Canon Joseph Heppelle from Canada, was ordained to the sacred priesthood in the seminary chapel by His Eminence Cardinal Burke. I ask you to join with the superiors and members of the Institute as we give thanks to Almighty God for these singular graces, a true sign of hope! Save the Date! NEW VOLUNTEERS FOR CHURCH CLEANING NEEDED LENTEN MORNING Thank you to the small and dedicated OF RECOLLECTION group of cleaners who keep Old Saint Patrick’s clean and tidy, as befits the house Theme: of God. In order to make sure that the “With Christ in the Desert” church is always in good condition and that the burden does not always fall exclusively Saturday March 10th on the same people, we are looking to expand our list of volunteers. Even if you 8:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. can only commit to coming once a month, this would be a tremendous help. Thank an important spiritual “check-up” you for your generosity and your zeal for halfway through Lent God’s house! Save the date and invite your friends! MASS SCHEDULE SCRIPTURAL READINGS FOR THE WEEK FEBRUARY 4 TO FEBRUARY 11 Sunday: Matins—Genesis 5:31-6:15 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 4 Mass—II Cor 11:19-12:1-29; Luke 8:4-15 SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY (Saint Andrew Corsini) Monday: Matins—Genesis 7:1-17 8:00 a.m. - Michael Lehr Mass—I Cor 1:26-31; Matthew 19:3-12 10:15 a.m. - Members & Benefactors of OSP Oratory Tuesday: Matins—Genesis 8:1-13 Mass—Ecclus 44:16-45:3-20; Luke 10:1-9 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5 Saint Agatha Wednesday: Matins—Genesis 8:15-9:6 7:00 a.m. - Mary Montgomery Mass—Ecclus 45:1-6; Matthew 19:27-29 Thursday: Matins—Genesis 9:12-29 TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6 Mass—Ecclus 31:8-11; Luke 12:35-40 Saint Titus Friday: Matins—Genesis 10:1-11:8 6:00 p.m. - Sierra Stancliffe Mass—II Tim 4:1-8; Matthew 5:13-19 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 Saturday: Matins—Genesis 11:10-30 Saint Romuald Mass—II Cor 10:17-11:2; Matt 25:1-13 7:00 a.m. - Ralph Franz THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8 Saint John of Matha Devotions to Our Lady of Perpetual Help are held on Tuesdays after Mass. NOTE: 7:00 a.m. - John Lehman, RIP FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9 CONFESSION is available every day Saint Cyril of Alexandria 30 minutes before Holy Mass. 6:00 p.m. - Jo Ann Drake, RIP SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10 COMPLINE FOR THE WEEK Saint Scholastica The final antiphon is Ave Regina caelorum 8:00 a.m. - Members & families of the Confraternity of until Holy Week. The word “feria” denotes Christian Mothers of OSP Oratory the psalms said for that weekday (i.e., when there is no special feast requiring the SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11 Sunday psalms). QUINQUAGESIMA SUNDAY (Our Lady of Lourdes) Sunday: Psalms of Sunday 8:00 a.m. - Lucy Martinez, RIP Monday to Saturday: Psalms of the feria 10:15 a.m. - Members & Benefactors of OSP Oratory 1 CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sunday, February 4 Sunday, February 18 Sexagesima Sunday First Sunday of Lent 8:00 a.m. Low Mass & 10:15 a.m. High Mass 8:00 a.m. Low Mass & 10:15 a.m. High Mass Tuesday, February 6 Tuesday, February 20 Children’s Catechism, 4:30 p.m. Holy Hour and confessions at 12 noon Children’s Catechism at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, February 8 Mass at 7:00 a.m. today. No Latin Class Thursday February 22 Holy Hour and confessions at 12 noon Saturday, February 10 Latin Class at 7:00 p.m. Altar Boy Outing to Steamboat Arabia. February 23 to February 26 Breakfast and ferverino after 8:00 a.m. Mass Canon Sequeira will be visiting while Canon Tour at Museum at 10:00 a.m. Altiere is in Saint Louis to give Lenten spiritual conference Sunday, February 11 Quinquagesima Sunday Friday, February 23 8:00 a.m. Low Mass & 10:15 a.m. High Mass 6:00 p.m. Low Mass with Passion sermon, followed by Stations of the Cross Tuesday, February 13 Children’s Catechism at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, February 25 Second Sunday of Lent Wednesday, February 14 8:00 a.m. Low Mass & 10:15 a.m. High Mass Ash Wednesday Blessing of religious articles after both Masses 7:00 a.m. & 6:30 p.m. Blessing and distribution of ashes at both Masses. Obligatory fast and abstinence. Parking Notice Thursday, February 15 Holy Hour and confessions at 12 noon Please note that the parking lot is Latin Class at 7:00 p.m. not available for the 7:00 a.m. Mass on Mondays and Friday, February 16 6:00 p.m. Low Mass with Passion sermon, Wednesdays. followed by Stations of the Cross 2 NEW SINGERS WELCOME! THANK YOU! Sing to the Lord! The choir provides a perfect Thank you to the generous donors whose opportunity to express the praises of Almighty kind offerings have made it possible for us God. Our choir director, Mr. Sean Scozzare, is to gather the necessary funds for the looking for more singers who would like to join the choir. If you are interested, please contact repairs to the church gutters. I am very Mr. Scozzare at [email protected]. pleased to announced that your kindness has made it possible to raise the funds needed to undertake this necessary repair Wisdom from St. Francis de Sales: which is important for the long-term integrity of the church structure and damp- “All of us can attain to Christian virtue and proofing. We are now in a position to holiness, no matter in what condition of begin work. May God reward you for your life we live and no matter what our life zeal for His house! work may be.” —St. Francis de Sales ORATORY INCOME BURNING LAST YEAR’S January 28 - Septuagesima BLESSED PALMS $3,903.00 January 28 - Building Fund Please bring your palms from last year $8,130.00 to church no later than Utilities Quinquagesima Sunday so that they $20.00 can be burned. The ashes for Ash Wednesday are made from the burnt palms from the previous year. A CELL PHONES receptacle will be available in the As a courtesy to others, please remember narthex. Please note that palms will to put your cell phones on “church not be accepted any later than mode” (off or low vibrate) when you come February 11th. into church. Thank you for your cooperation. 3 LITURGY CORNER: The Season of Septuagesima HE GREATEST FEAST OF THE YEAR, the Resurrection of Our Lord, is preceded by a period T of preparation called Lent. But in order that the rigors of Lent not come upon us unexpectedly, the Church has wisely instituted a brief liturgical season (three Sundays) in order to prepare us for Lent itself: this is the period of Septuagesima. Unlike Christmas, therefore, which is preceded only by the preparatory season of Advent, Easter is preceded by a three-fold preparation: Septuagesima, Lent and Passiontide. Septuagesima, in the form we currently have it, goes back to St. Gregory the Great (+ 604), the pope who standardized the basic structure of our Roman liturgy. Although the precise origin of the name of the three Gesima Sundays is uncertain, it may be because counting backwards in round figures from Quadragesima (the Latin name for Lent, meaning forty days) gives the three preceding Sundays the names of Quinquagesima, Sexagesima and Septuagesima. The medieval scholar Amalarius of Metz (8th century), who likes to emphasize the symbolism of Septuagesima as a time of exile, points out that Septuagesima Sunday, only 63 days before Easter Day, really does come 70 days before Easter Saturday, the conclusion of the Easter Octave. The Mass for Easter Saturday begins with the words: “the Lord brought forth his people with joy.” The exile begun with Septuagesima is thus finally over. Coming from the Latin word for “seventy,” therefore, Septuagesima calls to mind the 70 years the Jews spent in exile in Babylon and reminds us that, before our Risen Lord leads us into our heavenly homeland, we also are living in a land of exile.