SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT: Father Jeffery Fasching
January 5th, 2014
Most Holy Name of Jesus
Acts 4: 8-12
Gospel: Lk. 2: 21
Mass Schedule January 6-10
Mon 6 No Latin Mass
Tue 7 No Latin Mass
Wed 8 Feria after Epiphany
Thu 9 Feria after Epiphany
Fri 10 Feria after Epiphany
When we genuinely fulfill the law of Jesus Christ and accept the Word of God completely, we will always be successful! In addition, we will discover that God will give us a spirit that comes from knowing “the glorious freedom of the children of God.” This is a spirit of confidence and joy much like the Apostles possessed after receiving the Holy Ghost. It is a confidence that enables one to boldly proclaim one’s faith in every circumstance. This is our Christian duty. If we have any shame or hesitation in doing so we are denying Jesus Christ. A failure to profess one’s faith for fear of ridicule or criticism is sinful.
Fr. Jeff Fasching
Prayers at the Foot of the Altar
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Saturday, January 4, 2014
Saturday, October 20, 2012
Bulletin 123
SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
October 21st, 2012; 21st Sunday After Pentecost
Epistle: Eph. 6: 10-17; Gospel: Mt. 18: 23-35
There will be NO LATIN MASS October 22nd through October 26th due to the annual clergy conference in Branson, MO.
Jesus had willed to be as entirely dependent upon His Mother as a tiny infant. If I am to please God as a priest, Christ must be allowed to continue toward her through my ministry that humble and loving subjection. I undertake nothing without her, without her counsel, without having asked her to enlighten me. Jesus willed to have her consent not merely to receive His human life, but also to lay it down on the Cross, for she had received a mother’s power over Him from His Father. So I also pay her the homage of my whole priestly life, of my activity, of my joys, of my suffering, even my death, because I am her son, I belong to her.
Christ’s well-beloved Mother, after having given Him His human existence, the material of His Sacrifice, offered Him to the Eternal Father as a holocaust at the foot of the Cross. And so, invisibly present at every Mass, she continues with me, her priestly son, to offer Christ as a Victim to the Divine Majesty. Before His death, Jesus gave into her motherly care Saint John, the disciple whom He loved. He represented all the faithful but especially his favored ones, His priests.
He gave me then to His Mother as well and placed my priestly career under her maternal protection. She marked me off from that moment from among all her future children and she placed on my shoulders her maternal mantle. As He gave Saint John to his Mother, so He also gave his Mother to Saint John, that he should take her home with him, that he should take care of her and console her in Christ’s absence during the rest of her pilgrimage on earth.
In like manner, Christ has given me His Mother, her honor, her glory, the defense of her privileges. I have to help spread her devotion everywhere; inspire in others the faithful confidence and love for their Mother in heaven, the Mother of Perpetual Help! Remember the tears that she shed, the anguish she endured in her Mother’s heart at the time of Christ’s Passion. Remember that in its apostolic task the Church rightly looks to the one who bore Christ. In the words of Lumen gentium: “Christ who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin in order that He might also be born and grow in the hearts of the faithful. In her whole life this virgin mother showed herself as an example of that motherly love that must animate all who share in the apostolic mission of the Church for the regeneration of mankind.”
In Christ,
Father Jeffery Fasching
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
October 21st, 2012; 21st Sunday After Pentecost
Epistle: Eph. 6: 10-17; Gospel: Mt. 18: 23-35
There will be NO LATIN MASS October 22nd through October 26th due to the annual clergy conference in Branson, MO.
Jesus had willed to be as entirely dependent upon His Mother as a tiny infant. If I am to please God as a priest, Christ must be allowed to continue toward her through my ministry that humble and loving subjection. I undertake nothing without her, without her counsel, without having asked her to enlighten me. Jesus willed to have her consent not merely to receive His human life, but also to lay it down on the Cross, for she had received a mother’s power over Him from His Father. So I also pay her the homage of my whole priestly life, of my activity, of my joys, of my suffering, even my death, because I am her son, I belong to her.
Christ’s well-beloved Mother, after having given Him His human existence, the material of His Sacrifice, offered Him to the Eternal Father as a holocaust at the foot of the Cross. And so, invisibly present at every Mass, she continues with me, her priestly son, to offer Christ as a Victim to the Divine Majesty. Before His death, Jesus gave into her motherly care Saint John, the disciple whom He loved. He represented all the faithful but especially his favored ones, His priests.
He gave me then to His Mother as well and placed my priestly career under her maternal protection. She marked me off from that moment from among all her future children and she placed on my shoulders her maternal mantle. As He gave Saint John to his Mother, so He also gave his Mother to Saint John, that he should take her home with him, that he should take care of her and console her in Christ’s absence during the rest of her pilgrimage on earth.
In like manner, Christ has given me His Mother, her honor, her glory, the defense of her privileges. I have to help spread her devotion everywhere; inspire in others the faithful confidence and love for their Mother in heaven, the Mother of Perpetual Help! Remember the tears that she shed, the anguish she endured in her Mother’s heart at the time of Christ’s Passion. Remember that in its apostolic task the Church rightly looks to the one who bore Christ. In the words of Lumen gentium: “Christ who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin in order that He might also be born and grow in the hearts of the faithful. In her whole life this virgin mother showed herself as an example of that motherly love that must animate all who share in the apostolic mission of the Church for the regeneration of mankind.”
In Christ,
Father Jeffery Fasching
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Pray Without Ceasing
If you want your prayer to be answered without fail you must pray without ceasing. Those who get tired after praying for a time are lacking in either humility or confidence, and so they do not deserve to be heard. Their attitude is that God “owes” them and that their prayer should be obeyed instantly as if they were giving out orders to God! God resists the proud but bestows His favors upon the humble. We show very little trust in God’s goodness when we give up our prayers so quickly and take delay for an absolute refusal!
If we begin to really understand how far God’s goodness extends we will never believe that we have been refused or that He wishes to take away our hope. Rather, the more He makes us keep on asking for something we want, the more confident we should feel that we shall eventually obtain it. In fact, the only time we should begin to doubt that our prayers have been heard is when we notice that we have given up and stopped praying!
For example, if after a year we discover that we are praying just as hard as when we first started, then we shouldn’t doubt the success of our efforts. Instead of losing courage after such a long delay, we should rejoice because we can be certain that our desires will be all the more fully satisfied for the length of time we prayed. Remember how it took Saint Monica sixteen years to obtain the conversion of Saint Augustine, but the conversion was over and above what she had prayed for. She prayed that her son’s incontinence would be checked by marriage, and instead she had the joy of seeing him embrace a life of chastity! She only prayed that he be baptized and become a Christian, but she lived to see him become a bishop! She prayed that God turn him away from heresy, and God made him a pillar of the Church and its champion against heretics.
What do you suppose would have happened if Saint Monica would have given up after a couple of years, or after ten or twelve years? Her prayers seemingly were getting no results and her son grew worse instead of better for so many years. She would have done her son an injustice by ceasing to pray for him! She would have thrown away her own happiness, and deprived the world of one of the greatest Christian thinkers!
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
If we begin to really understand how far God’s goodness extends we will never believe that we have been refused or that He wishes to take away our hope. Rather, the more He makes us keep on asking for something we want, the more confident we should feel that we shall eventually obtain it. In fact, the only time we should begin to doubt that our prayers have been heard is when we notice that we have given up and stopped praying!
For example, if after a year we discover that we are praying just as hard as when we first started, then we shouldn’t doubt the success of our efforts. Instead of losing courage after such a long delay, we should rejoice because we can be certain that our desires will be all the more fully satisfied for the length of time we prayed. Remember how it took Saint Monica sixteen years to obtain the conversion of Saint Augustine, but the conversion was over and above what she had prayed for. She prayed that her son’s incontinence would be checked by marriage, and instead she had the joy of seeing him embrace a life of chastity! She only prayed that he be baptized and become a Christian, but she lived to see him become a bishop! She prayed that God turn him away from heresy, and God made him a pillar of the Church and its champion against heretics.
What do you suppose would have happened if Saint Monica would have given up after a couple of years, or after ten or twelve years? Her prayers seemingly were getting no results and her son grew worse instead of better for so many years. She would have done her son an injustice by ceasing to pray for him! She would have thrown away her own happiness, and deprived the world of one of the greatest Christian thinkers!
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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