OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and

charity through confession of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in the

Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the Bishop

of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

O sacrum convivium!

in quo Christus sumitur:

recolitur memoria passionis ejus:

mens impletur gratia:

et futurae gloriae nobis pignus datur.

O sacred banquet,

in which Christ becomes our food,

the memory of his Passion is recalled,

the soul is filled with grace,

and a pledge of future glory is given to us.

This antiphon was written by our brother Thomas Aquinas. That such a beautiful and

pious text came from the pen of such a powerful intellect reminds us that all prayer, all study, all writing, all preaching, and all religious service to neighbor must take root

in and point us back to the mysteries of

THE SAINT RECEIVING HOLY COMMUNION

Christ’s life and to the mysteries of his Church, which communicate Christ’s life to us. Through this antiphon, and indeed through his entire life, St. Thomas exhibits superlatively how the Eucharist serves as both the catalyst and the goal of the Church’s life in

Christ. As preachers of grace and servants of the mysteries of

Christ, we Dominicans do well to place Thomas’s words on our lips every time we gather for prayer.

The greatest of the Church’s mysteries, or sacraments, is the Blessed Sacrament, the sacrum convivium, and no other mystery occupied the priestly and poetic heart of St. Thomas like the Eucharist. He never let a day pass without celebrating Holy Mass, and on most days he would attend a second Mass as an act of thanksgiving. What’s more, St. Thomas demonstrated his acute

skill at poetry and hymn writing by composing Eucharistic texts still in use in the Church’s Corpus Christi liturgies. His hymns espe-cially remain familiar to many: Tantum ergo, O salutaris hostia,

Adoro te devote. Though less familiar than these hymns, the O sacrum convivium has also been set to music.

Taken from: www.csvfblog.org

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Kenneth Fryar, FSSP

Phone: 480-231-0573 Mail: 2312 E. Campbell Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85016

Email: contact@phoenixlatinmass.org Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org

Notitiæ June 14, 2009

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Corpus Christi, Class II Green 1 Corinthians 11: 23-29; St. John 6: 56-59

Intention:

10:00 am Mass at St. Cecilia (Clarkdale, AZ) Pro Populo

Intention:

1:00 pm Mass at St. Thomas the Apostle (24th St. & Campbell Ave, Phoenix) Pro Populo

Weekday Masses

At St. Thomas the Apostle at 6:30 am (ending 7:15 am)

and 7:00 pm on Holy Days of Obligation

Monday, June 15 Thursday, June 18

Propers: Readings: Intention:

Requiem Mass Daily Mass for the

dead) Class IV Black Apocalypse 14:13; St. John 6:51-55 + List: ―Grant Them Rest‖ +

Propers: Readings: Intention:

St. Ephrem of Siria Deacon, Confessor

and Doctor, Class III White II Timothy 4:1-8; St. Matthew 5:13-19

Relatives and Friends of Martin Murphy

Tuesday, June 16 Friday, June 19

Propers: Readings: Intention:

Requiem Mass Daily Mass for the dead) Class IV Black Apocalypse 14:13; St. John 6:51-55

+ Souls in Purgatory +

Propers: Readings: Intention:

Sacred Heart of Jesus, Class I White 1 Ephesians 3:8-12,14-19;St. John 19:31-37

Jeffrey Nelson, M.D.

Wednesday, June 17 Saturday, June 20

Propers: Readings: Intention:

St. Gregory Barbarigo Bishop and Confessor, Class III White Wisdom 44:16-17;45,3-20; St. Matthew 25:14-23 Relatives and Friends of Clarence J. Leabo

Propers: Readings: Intention:

Saturday of Our Lady, Class III White Ecclesiasticus, 24: 23-31; Luke 11: 27-28

Jeffrey Nelson, M.D.

Confessions

Friday 5-5:30 pm and Saturday 3:30-4:30 pm at St. Thomas the Apostle. Sunday before Mass at

St. Thomas the Apostle, and at St. Cecilia’s, if possible. Other times by arrangement.

SUNDAY COLLECT

O God, who in this wonderful sacrament has left

us a memorial of Thy passion, grant us, we

beseech Thee, so to venerate the sacred mysteries

of Thy Body and Blood, that we may ever perceive

within us the fruit of Thy redemption. Who livest.

SUNDAY EPISTLE I Corinthians 11: 23-29

Brethren, I have received of the Lord, that which

also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus, the

same night in which He was betrayed, took bread,

and giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye and

eat, this is My Body which shall be delivered for

you; this do for the commemoration of Me. In like

manner also the chalice, after He had supped,

saying: This chalice is the new testament in My

Blood; this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for

the commemoration of Me. For as often as you

shall eat this bread and drink this chalice, you

shall show the death of the Lord until He

come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or

drink of the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be

guilty of the Body and the Blood of the Lord. But

let a man prove himself; and so let him eat of

that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that

eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drin-

keth judgment to himself, not discerning the Body

of the Lord.

SUNDAY GOSPEL St. John 6: 56-59

At that time Jesus said to the multitudes of the

Jews: My Flesh is meat indeed, and My Blood is

drink indeed. He that eateth My Flesh, and

drinketh My Blood, abideth in Me, and I in him.

As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by

the Father, so he that eateth Me, the same also

shall live by Me. This is the bread that came down

from Heaven. Not as your fathers did eat manna

and are dead. He that eateth this Bread shall live

for ever.

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Potluck Date Change: We will be

having our Pot luck for the month of July on Sunday, 5th at St. Agnes Church, right after 1:00 p.m. ( 1954 N. 24th St. Phoenix)

The Confraternity of Christian Mothers will

begin June's meeting by attending the 6:30 a.m. Mass on Saturday, June 20th. Following Mass we will all commute to the Eggery for breakfast and then we will return to St. Thomas room 17 to continue our normal meeting at 9 a.m. We are hoping all members will at-tend and if you are new or just want to join the group for the first time we are anxious to meet you so

please do come! If all ladies who will be attending would please contact Lori at 480-440-2713 or via email lorigoto@yahoo.com by Wednesday, June 17 so she

can make reservations at the Eggery that would be helpful. Hope to see you all there!

CDA CAMPAIGN Thank you all of you who con-

tributed to the Diocesan CDA campaign; we have ful-filled our goal of $10,000 at 33.3% participation.

BUILDING FUND CONTRIBUTION ENVE-

LOPES– Every second Sunday of the month you re-ceive an extra envelope for our building fund; the money you deposit in that envelope is exclusively for

that purpose. To this date we have a total of $195,553. Thank you for your continuous generosity. At the same time we would like to invite you to also participate with your prayers, e.g. Praying to Our Lady of the Cenacle, reciting one decade of the rosary during the day, one rosary after meals or after your evenings prayers, etc.

Advertisements: Since many Catholics in the

Diocese of Phoenix do not know about us, Mater Miseri-

cordiae Mission has enlisted the services of August Stu-dios to produce a series of advertisements that will ap-pear in the Catholic Sun in order to spread awareness of the work of the Mission. These will appear once each month at a discounted rate of $510.00 per insertion. The first one was run in the March 5th edition and was

sponsored by a family from the Mission. If you or your family, or company would like to sponsor one of these

ads in part or in full, please contact Fr. Fryar.

For the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, June 19.

54. For these reasons, the Heart of the Incarnate Word is deservedly and rightly considered the chief sign and symbol of that threefold love with which the divine Re-deemer unceasingly loves His eternal Father and all

mankind. 55. It is a symbol of that divine love which He shares with the Father and the Holy Spirit but which He, the Word made flesh, alone manifests through a weak and perishable body, since "in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily."[52] 56. It is, besides, the symbol of that burning love

which, infused into His soul, enriches the human will of Christ and enlightens and governs its acts by the most perfect knowledge derived both from the beatific vision and that which is directly infused.[53] 57. And finally—and this in a more natural and direct way—it is the symbol also of sensible love, since the body of Jesus Christ, formed by the Holy Spirit, in the

womb of the Virgin Mary, possesses full powers of feel-ings and perception, in fact, more so than any other human body. Source: Haurietis Aquas (The Sacred Heart Encyclical of Pope Pius XII) May 15, 1956 ( rev., 1974; Orlando, Florida: Sacred Heart Publica-

tion Center), Part II, C, 54-57[54]

FSSP Prayer Requests Sun.– Fr. Peter Byrne Mon. – Fr. Carl Gismondi Tue. – Fr. James Jackson Wed. – Fr. Charles Van Vliet Thu. – † Fr. Charles Fiore † Fri. – Fr. Gerard Saguto Sat. – Fr. James Fryar

Of the Morals of the Catholic Church

Written by St. Augustine of Hippo in A.D. 388.

It is laid down at the outset that the customs of the holy life of the Church should be referred to the chief good of man, that is, God. We must seek after God

with supreme affection; and this doctrine is supported in the Catholic Church by the authority of both Testa-ments. The four virtues get their names from different forms of this love. Then follow the duties of love to our neighbor. In the Catholic Church we find examples of continence and of true Christian conduct.

How the Pretensions of the Manichæans are to Be Refuted. Two Manichæan Falsehoods

1. Enough, probably, has been done in our other books in the way of answering the ignorant and profane at-tacks which the Manichæans make on the law, which is called the Old Testament, in a spirit of vainglorious boasting, and with the approval of the uninstructed. Here, too, I may shortly touch upon the subject. For every one with average intelligence can easily see that

the explanation of the Scriptures should be sought for from those who are the professed teachers of the Scriptures; and that it may happen, and indeed always happens, that many things seem absurd to the igno-rant, which, when they are explained by the learned, appear all the more excellent, and are received in the

explanation with the greater pleasure on account of the obstructions which made it difficult to reach the mean-ing. This commonly happens as regards the holy books of the Old Testament, if only the man who meets with difficulties applies to a pious teacher, and not to a pro-fane critic, and if he begins his inquiries from a desire to find truth, and not in rash opposition. And should

the inquirer meet with some, whether bishops or pres-byters, or any officials or ministers of the Catholic Church, who either avoid in all cases opening up mys-teries, or, content with simple faith, have no desire for more recondite knowledge, he must not despair of find-ing the knowledge of the truth in a case where neither

are all able to teach to whom the inquiry is addressed,

nor are all inquirers worthy of learning the truth. Dili-gence and piety are both necessary: on the one hand, we must have knowledge to find truth, and, on the other hand, we must deserve to get the knowledge. 2. But as the Manichæans have two tricks for catching the unwary, so as to make them take them as teach-

ers—one, that of finding fault with the Scriptures, which they either misunderstand or wish to be misun-derstood, the other, that of making a show of chastity and of notable abstinence,— this book shall contain our doctrine of life and morals according to Catholic teach-ing, and will perhaps make it appear how easy it is to pretend to virtue, and how difficult to possess virtue. I

will refrain, if I can, from attacking their weak points, which I know well, with the violence with which they attack what they know nothing of; for I wish them, if possible, to be cured rather than conquered. And I will quote such testimonies from the Scriptures as they are bound to believe, for they shall be from the New Testa-ment; and even from this I will take none of the pas-

sages which the Manichæans when hard pressed are accustomed to call spurious, but passages which they are obliged to acknowledge and approve. And for every

testimony from apostolic teaching I will bring a similar statement from the Old Testament, that if they ever become willing to wake up from their persistent dreams, and to rise towards the light of Christian faith,

they may discover both how far from being Christian is the life which they profess, and how truly Christian is the Scripture which they cavil at.

Happiness is in the Enjoyment of Man's Chief

Good. Two Conditions of the Chief Good: 1st,

Nothing is Better Than It; 2d, It Cannot Be

Lost Against the Will

4. How then, according to reason, ought man to live? We all certainly desire to live happily; and there is no

human being but assents to this statement almost be-fore it is made. But the title happy cannot, in my opin-ion, belong either to him who has not what he loves,

whatever it may be, or to him who has what he loves if it is hurtful or to him who does not love what he has, although it is good in perfection. For one who seeks what he cannot obtain suffers torture, and one who has got what is not desirable is cheated, and one who does not seek for what is worth seeking for is diseased. Now in all these cases the mind cannot but be unhappy, and

happiness and unhappiness cannot reside at the same time in one man; so in none of these cases can the man be happy. I find, then, a fourth case, where the

happy life exists,— when that which is man's chief good is both loved and possessed. For what do we call enjoyment but having at hand the objects of love? And no one can be happy who does not enjoy what is man's

chief good, nor is there any one who enjoys this who is not happy. We must then have at hand our chief good, if we think of living happily.

5. We must now inquire what is man's chief good, which of course cannot be anything inferior to man himself. For whoever follows after what is inferior to himself, becomes himself inferior. But every man is bound to follow what is best. Wherefore man's chief

good is not inferior to man. Is it then something similar

to man himself? It must be so, if there is nothing above man which he is capable of enjoying. But if we find something which is both superior to man, and can be possessed by the man who loves it, who can doubt that in seeking for happiness man should endeavor to reach that which is more excellent than the being who

makes the endeavor. For if happiness consists in the enjoyment of a good than which there is nothing bet-ter, which we call the chief good, how can a man be properly called happy who has not yet attained to his chief good? Or how can that be the chief good beyond which something better remains for us to arrive at?

Such, then, being the chief good, it must be something

which cannot be lost against the will. For no one can feel confident regarding a good which he knows can be taken from him, although he wishes to keep and cher-ish it. But if a man feels no confidence regarding the good which he enjoys, how can he be happy while in such fear of losing it? Taken from New Advent-Fathers of the church