SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)
CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
August 26th, 2012; 13th Sunday after Pentecost
Epistle: Gal. 3:16-22; Gospel: Lk. 17:11-19
Mass Schedule August 27th through August 31st
Monday –Saint Joseph Calasance, Confessor-- NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday-Saint Augustine, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor
Wednesday-Beheading of John the Baptist
Thursday-Saint Rose of Lima, Virgin
Friday-Requiem Mass + David Anderson
There will be a Potluck dinner Sunday, September 9th immediately following the 2:30pm Mass in the Saint Agnes school cafeteria. All are invited.
The best reasons for praying the Holy Rosary are the following:
1) For world peace… “Say the Rosary every day to obtain peace for the world.” (Our Lady of Fatima, 1917). The Popes have highly recommended the Rosary to promote peace throughout the world.
2) A means for preserving the home…”There is no surer means of calling down God’s blessings upon the family…than the daily recitation of the Rosary”… Pope Pius XII
3) For courage in the hardships of life …”a powerful means of renewing our courage will undoubtedly be found in the Holy Rosary”…Pope Leo XIII
4) As a ready and easy means of preserving the faith…”We have elsewhere brought it to the attention of the devout Christian that not least among the advantages of the Rosary is the ready means it puts in his hands to nurture his faith, and to keep him from ignorance of his religion and the danger of error”…Pope Leo XIII
We should pray the rosary for the intention of making sacrifices in order to save sinners and ourselves from hell. The Magisterium has always taught the reality and eternity of hell. If God is merciful and if the human person is free, and thus capable of change, why must hell be eternal? We must not imagine that the damned piteously plea for God to accept their repentance and that He refuses to do so because they failed to meet a deadline that God arbitrarily set. If they are in hell forever it is because they refuse to repent and, indeed, given their choice to be who they are, they cannot repent. They do not wish to repent because they have freely chosen to make themselves and their will, not God and His will, the absolute value of their existence. Instead of embracing the infinite goodness and richness that is God, they have elected the barrenness which is themselves apart from God. It is not God who first rejects the damned, it is they who reject God, and they continue to reject Him. If God should offer the damned all the joys of heaven as a reward for sincere repentance, they would say, “I would rather be damned than submit to you.” Their will is totally, firmly, and irrevocably fixed upon themselves and against God. Having excluded God completely from their existence, they lack the principle from which conversion could take its origin; that is, reverence and love for God and a willingness to obey Him.
Let us pray for the conversion of sinners through the Holy Rosary!
Sincerely in Christ,
Fr. Jeff Fasching
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Friday, March 16, 2012
Mary, The New Eve
It was fitting that she, the New Eve, who was to cooperate so intimately with her Son in the work of our redemption, be entirely free of sin. She who was to be associated with her Son in His victory over Satan must never have been under the dominion of Satan.
In revealing to us Mary’s Immaculate Conception and perfect holiness, God places before our eyes a concrete model of what we are to love, and, loving, strive to be. He gives us a model that is at once perfect and yet lowly, lovable, and imitable. Despite her unique privilege and lofty holiness, Mary is the most imitable of the saints, because her greatness is in her lowliness. She is the handmaid of the Lord. Mother, yes, but first handmaid. Blessed because she believed.
In gazing upon the Immaculate Virgin, utterly free of the disorders of our sinful nature, the devout faithful feel a new hope in their own humanity. In contrast to our experience of a world given to sin, corruption, lying, cheating, cruelty, and lust, we see a fellow creature that is utterly pure and good, totally given to love, a mother’s love for all. For mortals trapped in this valley of tears to look upon the sinless Virgin is like prisoners buried in a dungeon being allowed to see the bright sun and breathe pure air once more.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!!
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
In revealing to us Mary’s Immaculate Conception and perfect holiness, God places before our eyes a concrete model of what we are to love, and, loving, strive to be. He gives us a model that is at once perfect and yet lowly, lovable, and imitable. Despite her unique privilege and lofty holiness, Mary is the most imitable of the saints, because her greatness is in her lowliness. She is the handmaid of the Lord. Mother, yes, but first handmaid. Blessed because she believed.
In gazing upon the Immaculate Virgin, utterly free of the disorders of our sinful nature, the devout faithful feel a new hope in their own humanity. In contrast to our experience of a world given to sin, corruption, lying, cheating, cruelty, and lust, we see a fellow creature that is utterly pure and good, totally given to love, a mother’s love for all. For mortals trapped in this valley of tears to look upon the sinless Virgin is like prisoners buried in a dungeon being allowed to see the bright sun and breathe pure air once more.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!!
In Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
The Christmas Season
After all of our Advent preparations we once again find ourselves well into the Christmas season. Now is the time of year when we focus particularly on the Incarnation, the greatest event in the whole history of mankind. Our omnipotent God chose at a particular moment in time to reveal Himself in the flesh. This is how God chose from all eternity to redeem us and save us from our slavery to sin and satan.
Although God could have saved us in any way He wished, He nevertheless chose to do so by becoming a man. God did not consider it beneath His dignity to take on our human nature. What a great joy for us! What a great message of hope! What a great lesson in humility! The Christmas message should help us to realize our great dignity as Christians. God created us in His own image! When we look at Christ we acknowledge that He is the image of the invisible God, as Saint Paul says. When we see Christ we see the nature of our God.
If we are in fact made in God's image than we must strive to imitate our God. We must embrace humility in all aspects of our lives. We must strive to learn to submit to one another out of love for Christ. When we meditate upon the Incarnation we must beg God for the humility that allowed the Blessed Virgin Mary to say yes to God at this unprecedented event and every moment of her life.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
Although God could have saved us in any way He wished, He nevertheless chose to do so by becoming a man. God did not consider it beneath His dignity to take on our human nature. What a great joy for us! What a great message of hope! What a great lesson in humility! The Christmas message should help us to realize our great dignity as Christians. God created us in His own image! When we look at Christ we acknowledge that He is the image of the invisible God, as Saint Paul says. When we see Christ we see the nature of our God.
If we are in fact made in God's image than we must strive to imitate our God. We must embrace humility in all aspects of our lives. We must strive to learn to submit to one another out of love for Christ. When we meditate upon the Incarnation we must beg God for the humility that allowed the Blessed Virgin Mary to say yes to God at this unprecedented event and every moment of her life.
Sincerely in Christ,
Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching
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