SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 5th, 10th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: 1 Cor. 12:2-11; Gospel: Lk. 18:9-14
Mass Schedule August 6th through August 10th
Monday –Transfiguration of the Lord--NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Cajetan, Confessor
Wednesday-Saint John Mary Vianney, Confessor
Thursday-Vigil of Saint Lawrence
Friday-Saint Lawrence, Deacon & Martyr-NO LATIN MASS
Pot Luck Dinner Sunday, August 12th immediately following the 2:30pm Latin Mass
Jesus Christ abased Himself before the Majesty of God the Father. He took the form of a servant. He willed to be thought of as the lowest of men, a man of sorrow. Jesus is the Holy of Holies, separated from sinners, but He took on Himself the sins of all men.
Jesus has drawn upon Himself all the blows of God’s anger. We are God’s creatures. We are infinitely dependent on our Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier. Without God’s grace we cannot possibly make any progress and we cannot persevere without being supported by God’s grace.
We must therefore humble ourselves before God the Father as the publican does in the Gospel. If we acknowledge our lowliness, God will draw near to us. We must learn to keep our hearts contrite and humble in God’s presence. We cannot attribute to ourselves any talent, success or good work. We must realize what is ours and what is God’s.
Let us pray that we will be humble and recognize our sins.
Sincerely in Christ,
Fr. Jeffery Fasching
Prayers at the Foot of the Altar
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Thursday, August 2, 2012
Monday, October 31, 2011
Final Words on Penance
The proclamation of God’s mercy and forgiveness also formed a prominent part of Saint Paul’s teaching:
God has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Cor 18-20)
The image of binding and loosing in Jewish tradition seems to have been originally used to describe the power of a judge in dealing with an accused person. If the judge found the person guilty, he would order the person to be bound and led off to prison; if he found the person innocent, he would order the person to be loosed from his bonds and released.
In Saint Matthew’s gospel, Jesus uses the same image to describe how the Church is to deal with wayward members. If your brother has offended you, He says, try to work out the problem with him privately. If that does not succeed, bring two or three witnesses.
If he refuses to listen to them, bring the matter to the Church. If the offender will not listen even to the Church, ban him from the community! Jesus assures His disciples that whatever the community binds or looses will be bound or loosed in heaven.
If he refuses to listen even to the Church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Mt. 18.18 cf. Mt. 16.19)
In other words, Jesus says to the Church: “When you ban the sinner, God bans him as well. When you reconcile the sinner, God reconciles him. When you keep the sinner bound by his sin, God keeps him bound. When you loose him from his sin, God looses him as well.”
Notice the universal scope of power: “Whatever you bind…Whatever you loose…” God sets no limits on the Church’s power of binding and loosing, forgiving or retaining sins—presupposing, of course, that the person is truly repentant.
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
God has reconciled us to Himself through Christ and given us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, God was reconciling the world to Himself in Christ, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. So we are ambassadors for Christ, as if God were appealing through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. (2 Cor 18-20)
The image of binding and loosing in Jewish tradition seems to have been originally used to describe the power of a judge in dealing with an accused person. If the judge found the person guilty, he would order the person to be bound and led off to prison; if he found the person innocent, he would order the person to be loosed from his bonds and released.
In Saint Matthew’s gospel, Jesus uses the same image to describe how the Church is to deal with wayward members. If your brother has offended you, He says, try to work out the problem with him privately. If that does not succeed, bring two or three witnesses.
If he refuses to listen to them, bring the matter to the Church. If the offender will not listen even to the Church, ban him from the community! Jesus assures His disciples that whatever the community binds or looses will be bound or loosed in heaven.
If he refuses to listen even to the Church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Mt. 18.18 cf. Mt. 16.19)
In other words, Jesus says to the Church: “When you ban the sinner, God bans him as well. When you reconcile the sinner, God reconciles him. When you keep the sinner bound by his sin, God keeps him bound. When you loose him from his sin, God looses him as well.”
Notice the universal scope of power: “Whatever you bind…Whatever you loose…” God sets no limits on the Church’s power of binding and loosing, forgiving or retaining sins—presupposing, of course, that the person is truly repentant.
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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