@Contra Mundum@ Volume XVI, Issue 4 November 2013 The Congregation of St. Athanasius A Congregation of the Pastoral Provision of Pope John Paul II for the Anglican Usage of the Roman Rite http://www.locutor.net NOTES FROM THE CHAPLAIN O YOU KNOW what hell broken, the correct order was sent fire and brimstone and little devils “Dis?” asked Father Terrill and received, and that year’s doll at poking souls with tridents can be with more than a little asperity in his the church bazaar was a great hit. understood as teaching devices. The suffering of Hell is to finally know voice. The poor woman at the other “Do you know what hell is?” that God is the great love of your life end of the telephone connection was “Hell is having everything you do and that you have turned irreversibly hesitant. So the priest continued, not need, but not the one thing you away from Him. “Hell is having everything you do want!” If the definition given on not need, but not the one thing you a hot summer day in Dallas was a The Catholic Church does not want!” And with that he slammed bit wide of the mark, perhaps it can pronounce either way on who may down the phone. be forgiven as being delivered with be damned, or, indeed, if there are Here’s the story, which occurred plenty of exasperation. We might any souls in Hell. But the doctrinal sometime in the 1960s. Father rather say Hell is having everything tradition has always stood against Terrill’s parish in what is now you want but not the one thing you the presumption of exceptionless suburban Dallas, Texas, was need. Holy Church teaches that a salvation. That is why there are planning its annual fall bazaar. They life of mortal sin and unrepentance Requiem Masses and memorial had hit on a money raiser. The parish can make a person permanently Masses and why every Mass women bought at low cost little doll unfit for the enjoyment of Heaven. offered has a memento in the canon figures and then they dressed them Almighty God does not predestinate of consecration. The offering of in different costumes for sale each or consign anyone to Hell. In the Christ is for the dead as well as the year. The women worked all spring Lord’s Parable of the Last Judgment living, for all souls live to Him. It and summer sewing that year’s (Matthew 25:31-46) the good go to is not for us to sort out. And so it costume, the material coming a place prepared for them. But the is an obligation of Catholic charity from the yard goods section of a bad go to a place never intended for to see to it that Mass is offered for venerable Dallas department store, human beings at all. Hell is a natural our own kinsfolk on the day of their Nieman-Marcus. For some reason, consequence of a life lived apart death or funeral or on their birthday. the wrong material kept arriving from God, and the lesson of Hell is And because Christ’s Church is one, for that year’s specified doll’s not the cruelty of God but springs the faithful departed are perfected hat. Repeated phone calls did not from, and is a consequence of, human leaning on our prayers in ways that correct the mistake. That is what freedom, a life lived in deliberate pass our understanding. The Lord sets up Father Terrill’s somewhat and unrepentant sin. And part of has willed it so: that we be aided one desperate, and perhaps intemperate, the horror is that in such a state it by the other. phone call to the poor receptionist is possible to lose even the capacity Father Bradford at Nieman-Marcus. But it worked! for seeking truth and for recognizing Somehow the “mistake-chain” was justice and mercy. The depictions of Page 26 Contra Mundum weakness. Because we cannot obtain THE WORLD salvation by ourselves, we need the intercession of the saints, and it is NEEDS THE right that we should honor them to GOSPEL gain their assistance… The third N HIS SERMON for the Feast reason was to increase our own sense Iof Pentecost last month, His of security—in other words, to have Holiness Pope Benedict XVI the glory of the saints recalled to us offered the following reflection: on their feast day, and thus to build “We see daily events which up our own hope and confidence. If appear to suggest that people are mortals like ourselves could by their ALL SAINTS’ DAY becoming more aggressive and merits be so lifted up, it follows that more unsociable; it seems to be Friday, November 1, 2013 we can do likewise… The fourth too demanding to try to understand Holy Day of Obligation reason was to offer an example for each other, and we prefer to be our imitation. When the saints are ¶Please note Saint Lawrence closed up in our own ‘I,’ in our celebrated on their feast days, we own interests.” Any society that Church is not available for are inspired to imitate them, i.e., an Anglican Use Mass in the reaches such a state should be to follow their example by making made to carry a health and safety evening. There is a Mass in the little of earthly goods and setting Ordinary Form at 7:00 P.M. You warning. The wellbeing of its our hearts on the things of heaven. inhabitants is in peril. are encouraged to attend. The fifth reason was to allow a fair ¶There are Masses in St. Theresa exchange. The saints make festival The wondrous dignity of every of Avila Church, West Roxbury in heaven over us, for there is joy human being lies in the fact that as follows: st before the angels of God and holy October 31 at 4:00 P.M. and 7:30 souls over one sinner doing penance, P.M. st and so we should make a fair return November 1 at 6:30 A.M., 9:30 by celebrating their feasts on earth. A.M., 12:15 P.M. and 7:30 P.M. And Master William’s sixth reason is to assure our own honor, because when we honor saints, we are taking care of our own interests and WHY WE HONOR procuring our own honor. Their feast THE SAINTS day honors us. When we pay tribute ALL SOULS DAY to our brothers, we honor ourselves, UT WHY is it an established since love makes all things to be in Saturday, November 2, 2013 Brule that we must mark the common, and all things are ours, in Parish Solemn Requiem Mass saints’ feasts on earth? Master heaven, on earth, and in eternity. St. Lawrence Church, Chestnut William of Auxerre gives six Hill, Mass. Blessed Jacobus de Voragine reasons for this in his Summa 10:00 A.M. de officiis. The first is the honor ¶ Blessed Jacob of Voragine lived from c due the divine majesty, because 1230-c 1298 and from 1292 was Archbishop ¶ Please return intercession of Genoa. A Dominican friar, he is known papers with names of departed when we pay honor to the saints, as author of The Golden Legend, an we honor God in the saints and immensely popular collection of lives of the souls prior to the Mass. proclaim that he is admirable in saints and treatises on Christian festivals. ¶ There is no Saturday 8:00 A.M. them. Whoever pays honor to the This excerpt is from Volume II. Anglican Use Mass in St. Theresa saints pays special honor to him of Avila Church on November 2nd. who made them saints. The second Regular Saturday Masses resume reason is that we need help in our next week. Contra Mundum Page 27 man has been created, as Genesis Holy Father has often acknowledged that they think that they no longer puts it, in the image of God. We the influence on his own intellectual need a distant God and that they know from the Gospel that the development of the Italian/German are strong enough to build a way life of God is anything but self- priest and theologian Romano to Heaven by themselves ... to put centred. Within the Trinity there Guardini. From 1923 to 1939 themselves in God’s place,” said the is a continuous outpouring of self Father Guardini taught Philosophy Pope. However, “While men were between three Persons, an eternal of Religion in Berlin, until his working to build the tower, suddenly communication of knowledge and disdain for Nazi ideology led to his they realized they were working love between Father, Son and Holy resignation from teaching. After against each other. While they tried Ghost. The expansiveness of this the war he resurfaced in academia to be like God, they ran the risk of love is expressed in God’s will to and filled the chair of ‘Christian no longer even being men, because create man, a knowing and loving Worldview’ at Munich in 1948. He they lost a fundamental element of creature, and in His call to man to was friendly with the fathers of the being human persons: the capacity participate in the mystery of His Munich Oratory, and was buried to agree, to understand and to work own life. in their cemetery after his death in together.” The image of God lies chiefly in 1968. The illusion of self-sufficiency our mind and in our will, in our Guardini’s own worldview was is always dangerous.