Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost September 20, 2020 Liturgical Readings MASSES FOR THE WEEK Sunday September 20 II Class Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost Readings: Ephesians 3, 13-21 & Luke 14, 1-11 Sunday 8:00 AM September 20 5:00 PM Saturday Anticipated Mass-Bishop DiMarzio Hall 8:00 AM Low Mass – Bishop DiMarzio Hall 10:30 AM 10:30 AM High Mass - in Church Confessions 1 Hour before Mass on Porch Monday 8:00 AM September 21 Monday September 21 II Class Saint Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist Readings: Ezechiel. 1, 10-14 & Matthew 9, 9-13 Tuesday 8:00 AM September 22 8 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass Wednesday 7:30 PM September 23 Tuesday September 22 II Class Saint Thomas of Villanova, Bishop & Confessor Thursday 8:00 AM September 24 Comm. Saint Maurice & Companions, Martyrs Readings: Ecclesiasticus 44, 16-27; 45, 3-20 & Matthew 25, 14-23 Friday 8:00 AM September 25 8 AM Mass in Church - Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass Saturday 8:00 AM September 26 Wednesday September 23 II Class EMBER WEDNESDAY – Day of Fasting Readings: Amos 9, 13-14; 2 Esdras 81, 1-10 5:00 PM & Mark 9, 16-28 Comm. Saint Linus, Pontiff & Martyr 7:30 PM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass Thursday September 24 IV Class MASS SCHEDULE Our Lady of Ransom Readings: Ecclesiasticus 24, 14-16 & Luke 11, 27-28 Please Carefully Read The Instructions For Returning To Mass At Mater Ecclesiae 8:00 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Confessions 30 minutes before Mass The Church is now open for Masses. The regular schedule of Masses and Confessions will return as follows Friday September 25 II Class EMBER FRIDAY – Day of Fasting with the noted modifications. Readings: Osee 14, 2-10 & Luke 7, 36-50 Daily Mass Schedule 8:00 AM Mass in Church – Novena to St. Michael Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8:00AM Confessions 30 minutes before Mass Wednesday at 7:30PM – All Daily Masses are in the Church Saturday September 26 II Class Sunday Mass Schedule EMBER SATURDAY – Day of Fasting Readings: Leviticus 23, 27-32; Hebrews 9, 2-12 Saturday Evening Anticipated Mass at 5:00 PM in BDM Hall Sunday 8:00AM in Bishop DiMarzio Hall 8:00 AM Mass in Church– Novena to St. Michael 10:30AM in Church Confessions 30 minutes before Mass New Confession Schedule 5:00 PM Anticipated Mass in Bishop DiMarzio Hall Confessions 1 hour before Mass on Porch 30 minutes before Daily Masses 1 hour before Sunday obligation Masses On Porch We will live stream Masses except on Monday and Tuesday. First Friday Schedule: Eighth Grade CCD Class 7:30 AM Confessions 8:00 AM Mass followed by All Day Adoration will meet this Sunday, September 20, 4:00 PM Benediction 9:15 AM to 10:15 AM On Friday, Saturday and Sunday, October 2, 3, and 4, we will hold our annual Forty Hours Eucharistic Devotion. This is a large undertaking for a small parish with people spread out all over the Delaware Valley and beyond. The main purpose of this Devotion is to give solemn honor and praise to our Lord in the Most Blessed Sacrament. This is done by beautiful Masses, Processions, devotions and quiet prayer. Every parishioner should plan to participate each day in some aspect of the 40 Hours. We especially need people to sign up for Adoration times at night so that there is someone in the Chapel every hour of Exposition. This year, we will once again have the full 40- hours of Adoration, which means that Adoration will continue overnight on Friday and Saturday. The Sign up for 40 Hours will be online this year, utilizing the same online site we have used for First Friday Adoration. We will include the link on Facebook, our Website and bulletin as soon as it is available. To sign up for Forty Hours, please click the following link: https://signup.com/go/uaAgFsD • Choose the hours you want to sign up for. • Sign up! It's Easy - you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password. “Could you not watch • The Sign Up site does not share your email address with anyone. one hour with Me?” If you have any questions, please email Michael Phelps Matthew 26, 40 at [email protected] or you can text or call him at 609-221-5603. Forty Hours Devotion PLEASE NOTE: THE LINK FOR THE ONLINE SIGN UP CHANGES Friday, October 2 EACH MONTH FOR EACH EVENT. PLEASE USE Opening Mass at 7:30 PM THE NEW 40 HOURS LINK THAT IS PROVIDED. If you do not have online access, the schedule for Saturday, October 3 40 Hours Devotion will be posted the weekend prior to Mass of Peace at 10:30 AM October 2. This will allow parishioners unable to sign up online to see where coverage is needed and to “sign up” in Sunday, October 4 person. Closing Mass at 10:30 AM During this year of pandemic causing such uncertainty, our 40 Hours of Adoration is especially vital. Mater ecclesiae Welcomes About Dr. Kwasniewski…….. Dr. Peter Kwasniewski “Peter Kwasniewski (pronounced, at least in America, as Quash- NEV-ski), born in Chicago in 1971, spent his youth in New Jersey, where attendance at an all-boys Catholic high school brought him an exceptional training in humanities and poor to non-existent religious instruction. He went off to Georgetown University for a single year, after which he made one of the best moves of his life by starting over again at Thomas Aquinas College in California, from which he received a B.A. in Liberal Arts in 1994. Not having had his fill of Washington, D.C., he earned an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Catholic University of America, whose giant statue of Pope Leo XIII in McMahon Hall was a beneficent presence throughout. After teaching philosophy and theology at the International Theological Institute in Austria and music for the Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Austrian Program (1998–2006), he joined the founding team of Wyoming Catholic College in Lander, Wyoming, where he served as the first Director of Admissions and Assistant Academic Dean, directed the Choir and Schola, and taught, over time, all of the theology courses and most of the Author, theologian, and composer philosophy and fine arts courses (2006–2018). He left WCC in the summer of 2018 to pursue a career as a freelance author, public speaker, editor, publisher, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski will be doing a and composer, with the intention of dedicating his life to the articulation and lecture tour in southern New Jersey, defense of Catholic Tradition in all its dimensions. Over the past twenty years, Kwasniewski has published over 1,200 Pennsylvania, and Ohio from September 19 articles, both academic and popular, on sacramental and liturgical theology, the through September 23, with stops in Berlin, aesthetics of music, Thomistic thought, and the social doctrine of the Church. He has written or edited ten books: Wisdom’s Apprentice (CUA Press, Allentown, Altoona, Pittsburgh, and 2007); On Love and Charity: Readings from Aquinas's Commentary on the Sentences (CUA Press, 2008); Sacred Choral Works (Corpus Christi Watershed, Steubenville. 2014); Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis: Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin He will be giving a talk at Mater Mass, and Renewal in the Church (Angelico Press, 2014); Noble Beauty, Transcendent Holiness: Why the Modern Age Needs the Mass of Ages (Angelico Ecclesiae (where he and his wife were Press, 2017), A Reader in Catholic Social Teaching: From Syllabus Errorum to married in 1998!) on Saturday, September Deus Caritas Est (Cluny Media, 2017); Tradition and Sanity: Conversations and Dialogues of a Postconciliar Exile (Angelico, 2018); John Henry Newman on 19, at 10 AM. The topic will be “The Power Worship, Reverence, and Ritual (Os Justi, 2019); And Rightly So: Selected Letters and of Non-Verbal Language to Communicate Articles of Neil McCaffrey (Roman Catholic Books, 2019); Reclaiming Our Roman Catholic Birthright: The Genius and Timeliness of the Traditional Latin the Ineffable.” Mass (Angelico Press, 2020). The talk will be followed by a Dr. Kwasniewski writes regularly for New Liturgical Movement, OnePeterFive, LifeSiteNews, Rorate Caeli, The Remnant, Catholic Family News, and Question and Answer session and a chance to The Latin Mass magazine. Many of his approximately 150 musical works have been performed purchase signed copies of Dr. Kwasniewski's in liturgical settings and in concert. latest book, Reclaiming Our Roman Kwasniewski is also a scholar of The Aquinas Institute in Green Bay, which, in conjunction with Emmaus Academic, is publishing the Opera Omnia of Catholic Birthright: The Genius and the Angelic Doctor in some 60 volumes; a Fellow of the Albertus Magnus Center Timeliness of the Traditional Latin Mass for Scholastic Studies, which conducts summer courses in Norcia, Italy; and a Senior Fellow of the St. Paul Center in Steubenville.” (Angelico, 2020). From Dr. Kwasniewski’s Website: https://www.PeterKwasniewski.com Novena to St. Michael the Archangel September 21 to September 29 Our nine-day Novena to Saint Michael the Archangel will begin on September 21 and continue after each daily Mass. The last Novena prayer will be at the Mass on the Feast of St. Michael on September 29. If you are unable to attend daily Mass, you can join us spiritually by praying the Novena at home. The Novena is available online at our website and linking through Facebook.