SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT: Father Jeff Fasching
February 2, 2014
Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Epistle: Mal. 3: 1-4
Gospel: Lk. 2: 22-32
Mass Schedule February 3-7
Mon 3 No Latin Mass
Tue 4 Saint Andrew Corsini, Bishop & Confessor
Wed 5 Saint Agatha * Virgin & Martyr
Thu 6 Saint Titus, Bishop & Confessor
Fri 7 Sacred Heart of Jesus
Mass on February 7 will be followed by exposition of the Blessed Sacrament and benediction.
February 3 is the feast of Saint Blasé, Bishop and Martyr. In honor of Saint Blasé the traditional blessing of throats will take place immediately following the 2:30pm Mass on February 2.
Sunday, February 2 the Church celebrates the feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. These events occurred forty days after the birth of Jesus. In the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite February 2 closes out the Christmas season.
Our Lord Jesus Christ was presented in the Temple by the Blessed Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph in obedience to the Old Law. Christ is revealed as the Messiah and Simeon sings out his Canticle Nunc dimittis. Christ is the light of the nations; hence there will be a blessing of candles with a procession before Mass begins.
To commemorate these two great feasts the faithful are invited to bring Candles (made from bees wax) to be blessed before the 2:30pm Mass on February 2. The procession commemorates the Lord’s entry into the Temple in Jerusalem and Christ’s entering into God’s house for the first time. You are invited to reflect upon the dispositions of the Blessed Virgin Mary as she presents Christ in the Temple. She shows her obedience to the Law of Moses and, as always, is a shining example of humility and purity.
In Christo Jesu et Maria Immaculata,
Fr. Jeff Fasching
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SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
February 3rd, 2013 Sexagesima Sunday
Epistle: II Cor. 11: 19-33; 12: 1-9—Gospel: Lk. 8: 4-15
Mass schedule February 4th --- February 8th
Monday-Saint Andrew Corsini; Bishop & Confessor--NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Agatha * Virgin & Martyr
Wednesday-Saint Titus, Bishop & Confessor
Thursday-Saint Romuald, Abbot
Friday-Saint John of Matha, Confessor
In memory of Saint Blaise, Bishop & Martyr, the blessing of throats will be offered this Sunday immediately following the 2:30pm Mass.
Satan deceives those who are sinners. He makes them think they lead a life of happiness and enjoy peace while engaging in their sensual appetites. However, there can be no peace for those who offend our God. God has stated that all His enemies lead a life of misery. God has created us with an intellect which gives us mastery over brute animals. We have been created for God. We must love Him and strive to be united with Him. God alone is able to make us truly happy. The world and worldly goods can never make a man happy and content.
King David once cried: “My tears have become my bread, day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?” In a state of sin David sought out his many possessions and royal amusements, but to no avail. David’s conscience could only be heard to say: “Where is thy God? Go and seek the God whom you have lost. He alone can restore your peace!”
Sin brings only remorse of conscience. The Lord says to sinners: “You have refused to serve me in peace.” The result for the sinner is a life of hunger, thirst and constant yearning. Let us choose the happy life of those who love God. The peace which God offers surpasses all sensual delights the world has to offer. God alone can give content to the heart. Go to Holy Mass. Practice prayer regularly. Visit the Blessed Sacrament. Go to confession and communion often. Avoid evil conversations. Walk always with God and your life will change forever. You will enjoy peace which the world will never give you.
In Christ,
Fr. Jeff Fasching
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
February 3rd, 2013 Sexagesima Sunday
Epistle: II Cor. 11: 19-33; 12: 1-9—Gospel: Lk. 8: 4-15
Mass schedule February 4th --- February 8th
Monday-Saint Andrew Corsini; Bishop & Confessor--NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Agatha * Virgin & Martyr
Wednesday-Saint Titus, Bishop & Confessor
Thursday-Saint Romuald, Abbot
Friday-Saint John of Matha, Confessor
In memory of Saint Blaise, Bishop & Martyr, the blessing of throats will be offered this Sunday immediately following the 2:30pm Mass.
Satan deceives those who are sinners. He makes them think they lead a life of happiness and enjoy peace while engaging in their sensual appetites. However, there can be no peace for those who offend our God. God has stated that all His enemies lead a life of misery. God has created us with an intellect which gives us mastery over brute animals. We have been created for God. We must love Him and strive to be united with Him. God alone is able to make us truly happy. The world and worldly goods can never make a man happy and content.
King David once cried: “My tears have become my bread, day and night, whilst it is said to me daily: Where is thy God?” In a state of sin David sought out his many possessions and royal amusements, but to no avail. David’s conscience could only be heard to say: “Where is thy God? Go and seek the God whom you have lost. He alone can restore your peace!”
Sin brings only remorse of conscience. The Lord says to sinners: “You have refused to serve me in peace.” The result for the sinner is a life of hunger, thirst and constant yearning. Let us choose the happy life of those who love God. The peace which God offers surpasses all sensual delights the world has to offer. God alone can give content to the heart. Go to Holy Mass. Practice prayer regularly. Visit the Blessed Sacrament. Go to confession and communion often. Avoid evil conversations. Walk always with God and your life will change forever. You will enjoy peace which the world will never give you.
In Christ,
Fr. Jeff Fasching
Friday, January 20, 2012
We Must Love God Above all Else
From the treatise On Spiritual Perfection by Diadochus of Photice, bishop:
No one who is in love with himself is capable of loving God. The man who loves God is the one who mortifies his self-love for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of divine love. Such a man never seeks his own glory but only the glory of God...
I know a man who, though lamenting his failure to love God as much as he desires, yet loves him so much that his soul burns with ceaseless longing for God to be glorified, and for his own complete effacement. This man has no feeling of self-importance even when he receives praise. So deep is his desire to humble himself that he never even thinks of his own dignity. He fulfills his priestly duty by celebrating the Liturgy, but his intense love for God is an abyss that swallows up all consciousness of his high office. His humility makes him oblivious of any honor it might bring him, so that in his own estimation he is never anything but a useless servant. Because of his desire for self-abasement, he regards himself as though degraded from his office. His example is one that we ourselves should follow by fleeing from all honor and glory for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of God's love, for He has loved us so much..!
Such a man lives in this life and at the same time does not live in it, for although he still inhabits his body, he is constantly leaving it in spirit because of the love that draws him toward God...
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching.
No one who is in love with himself is capable of loving God. The man who loves God is the one who mortifies his self-love for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of divine love. Such a man never seeks his own glory but only the glory of God...
I know a man who, though lamenting his failure to love God as much as he desires, yet loves him so much that his soul burns with ceaseless longing for God to be glorified, and for his own complete effacement. This man has no feeling of self-importance even when he receives praise. So deep is his desire to humble himself that he never even thinks of his own dignity. He fulfills his priestly duty by celebrating the Liturgy, but his intense love for God is an abyss that swallows up all consciousness of his high office. His humility makes him oblivious of any honor it might bring him, so that in his own estimation he is never anything but a useless servant. Because of his desire for self-abasement, he regards himself as though degraded from his office. His example is one that we ourselves should follow by fleeing from all honor and glory for the sake of the immeasurable blessings of God's love, for He has loved us so much..!
Such a man lives in this life and at the same time does not live in it, for although he still inhabits his body, he is constantly leaving it in spirit because of the love that draws him toward God...
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching.
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Jesus' Ministry of Healing the Sick
Healing the sick was an important part of Jesus' public ministry. It has been observed that wherever one turns in the Gospel accounts of Jesus' public ministry, one finds that Jesus is either healing, or has just healed, or is about to heal the sick. The healings and exorcisms effected by Jesus are signs that the Kingdom of God is at hand, and are an anticipated enjoyment of its blessings (Lk 11.20; Mt 12.28).
The beginning of Mark's Gospel describes what must have been a typical day in the ministry of Jesus. Notice what a prominent part was devoted to healing the sick. In the morning, Jesus attends a synagogue service during which He cures a man possessed by an unclean spirit (Mk 1.23-28). Immediately afterwards, He goes to Simon Peter's house and raises up Simon's mother-in-law who was stricken with fever (1.29-31). After sunset, He cures a large number of sick and possessed who were brought to Him from every side (1.32-34). The chapter closes with the cure of a leper (1.40-45) and with the remark that it was no longer possible for Jesus to enter a town openly because of the crowds. The next chapter begins with Jesus' curing a paralytic who had been let down through the roof (Mk 2.1-12). But first He pronounces the man forgiven of his sins, thus implying that there was a close connection between the man's bodily illness and sin (Mk 2.1-12).
In fact, Jesus makes it clear that it is more important to be cleansed from any spiritual ailment than to be healed physically in any way. What sins do we cling to? How are we in need of healing?
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
The beginning of Mark's Gospel describes what must have been a typical day in the ministry of Jesus. Notice what a prominent part was devoted to healing the sick. In the morning, Jesus attends a synagogue service during which He cures a man possessed by an unclean spirit (Mk 1.23-28). Immediately afterwards, He goes to Simon Peter's house and raises up Simon's mother-in-law who was stricken with fever (1.29-31). After sunset, He cures a large number of sick and possessed who were brought to Him from every side (1.32-34). The chapter closes with the cure of a leper (1.40-45) and with the remark that it was no longer possible for Jesus to enter a town openly because of the crowds. The next chapter begins with Jesus' curing a paralytic who had been let down through the roof (Mk 2.1-12). But first He pronounces the man forgiven of his sins, thus implying that there was a close connection between the man's bodily illness and sin (Mk 2.1-12).
In fact, Jesus makes it clear that it is more important to be cleansed from any spiritual ailment than to be healed physically in any way. What sins do we cling to? How are we in need of healing?
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Saturday, October 22, 2011
The Institution Narrative
At the Last Supper, Jesus took bread, pronounced a blessing, broke it, and gave it to His disciples saying, “This is my body.” He then took the cup, gave thanks, and passed it to them saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood” (I Cor 11.25), “This is my blood of the covenant” (Mk 14.24).
One of the very first Protestant reformers, Ulrich Zwingli, insisted that the Eucharistic words are to be understood in a metaphorical, not in a literal sense. He held that when Jesus gives us bread to eat, saying, “This is my body,” and when He gives us wine to drink, saying “This is my blood,” the bread and wine remain the same physical realities they were, but they now become signs or symbols of Christ’s body given up for us and of His blood shed for us on the cross. In this interpretation, we do not receive the body of Christ in any physical sense, but we do receive Him spiritually. Many Protestants accept this understanding.
Proponents of this view point out that Jesus often used metaphor to describe Himself and His disciples. For example, in speaking of Himself He said: “I am the Light of the World” (Jn 8.12); “I am the resurrection and the life” (Jn 11.25); “I am the vine, you are the branches” (Jn 15.15.5); “I am the bread of life” (Jn 6.48). Speaking of His disciples He said: “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world,” (Mt 5.13f); “You are Rock” (Mt 16.18). All of these employ metaphor, suggesting that the Eucharistic words should also be understood in a figurative sense.
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
One of the very first Protestant reformers, Ulrich Zwingli, insisted that the Eucharistic words are to be understood in a metaphorical, not in a literal sense. He held that when Jesus gives us bread to eat, saying, “This is my body,” and when He gives us wine to drink, saying “This is my blood,” the bread and wine remain the same physical realities they were, but they now become signs or symbols of Christ’s body given up for us and of His blood shed for us on the cross. In this interpretation, we do not receive the body of Christ in any physical sense, but we do receive Him spiritually. Many Protestants accept this understanding.
Proponents of this view point out that Jesus often used metaphor to describe Himself and His disciples. For example, in speaking of Himself He said: “I am the Light of the World” (Jn 8.12); “I am the resurrection and the life” (Jn 11.25); “I am the vine, you are the branches” (Jn 15.15.5); “I am the bread of life” (Jn 6.48). Speaking of His disciples He said: “You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world,” (Mt 5.13f); “You are Rock” (Mt 16.18). All of these employ metaphor, suggesting that the Eucharistic words should also be understood in a figurative sense.
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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