Announcements for Sunday, May 1, 2016
Priest: Rev. Fr. James Bartoloma
Mass Intention: Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Mary Mensch (RIP) req. by Mark Matthews
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Luncheon Today in the Rectory immediately following Mass. Please join us by entering through the aisle by the BVM side altar following it through the sacristy into the rectory dining room.
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A Seminarian’s Request…
Laudetur Iesus Christus In saecula! Amen.
My name is Ian McNally. You may recognize me as the fellow who serves at Saint Edmond’s and attends various celebrations of the traditional Mass in the greater Philadelphia area. I am excited to share a wonderful announcement with you.
Following a year and a half of visits to various oratories and conversations with numerous priests, I have been accepted into the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest as a candidate for priestly formation. Since the age of fourteen I have discerned a vocation to the priesthood and now at last I have decided to begin my formation. Last autumn, after I was concluding my travels to traditional seminaries across the nation, I decided to apply to the Institute. In January I received a phone call from the provincial superior. He confirmed that my letter of assignment would be mailed to me in June and that it was my responsibility to search for benefactors to provide financial support for my formation.
For American seminarians, the first year of formation occurs at the oratories located in Chicago, Saint Louis, and Wausau, with each oratory receiving three to four candidates. From the second year to the seventh year seminarians reside at the International Seminary of Saint Philip Neri in Gricigliano in Tuscany. Tuition is $10,000 per year, which does not include airfare, insurance, or pocket money. To afford the tuition of high school and college my family sacrificed greatly and now it is my duty to finance my seminary education. Unfortunately, my entire life savings amount to little more than one year’s tuition. In addition to the cross of acquiring my own funds, I must humbly relinquish the comfort of my mother tongue and become proficient in the French language, as it is the language of the Institute. Much is expected of me. Leaving my fatherland for a distant country overseas, undergoing immersion into an international European environment, and receiving orthodox instruction in philosophy and scholastic theology are imposing challenges indeed. Though a great burden, I am not daunted and I shall explain why.
The Mystical Body of Christ is suffering a Passion of her own. Indeed, the spotless Bride has become marred and disfigured beyond recognition in imitation of her divine Bridegroom on the Cross two thousand years ago. Many have deserted this devastated vineyard for seemingly greener pastures and others have jumped into the raging waters threatening to sink this sole ark of salvation. For fifty years our holy mother the Church has been hemorrhaging from the five wounds of neo-modernism, liturgical innovation, false ecumenism, religious indifferentism, and ambiguous ecclesiology. We failed to listen to the prophetic warnings of Saint Pius X and his predecessors. Now the only remedy to this suffering is the balm of Holy Tradition. Weak and fragile earthen vessel that I am, I yearn with my entire being to apply that medicine. I do not seek to be a hireling; what I desire is to put on the armor of the Church Militant and become the epitome of the priest every Catholic needs, not wants. “I give myself to God. Here is my body. Take it. Here is my blood. Take it,” says the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. “Transmute the poor bread of my life into Thy divine life; thrill the wine of my wasted life into Thy divine Spirit.” I too wish to offer my feeble existence to Our Lord so that He might utilize me as an instrument of salvation primarily through a worthy celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass according to the rite of the Fathers and secondarily through preaching that is unabashedly and unapologetically Catholic. I seek for nothing other than to contribute, however miniscule, to the exultation of the one true faith over all innovation and heresy. In short, I want to heed the call of the Institute’s motto: veritatem facientes in caritate — live the truth in charity.
If you, anyone you are acquainted with, or any organization you know of would be willing adopt me financially, I would be most grateful for the support. If two hundred people were to donate fifty dollars each, one whole year would be paid for. Kindly read the following instructions for more information.
If you wish to donate, please write a personal cheque payable to the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest, but do not insert my name in the memo field. Instead, on a separate piece of paper specify the cheque is for Ian McNally’s formation. Address the cheque with the accompanying note to the United States Provincial Headquarters in Chicago, the location of which can be found on the ICRSS’s website. Do not mail your check prior to mid-June. I will send out a notification should the location of my assignment alter the postal destination for personal cheques. You can call for assistance if necessary or e-mail me at McN1316@gmail.com.
Above all, please pray to Saints Benedict, Thomas Aquinas, and Francis de Sales for me that I might courageously carry out the will of the thrice-holy God in my state of life.
Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,
Ian McNally
Upcoming Masses:
A Solemn High Mass for Ascension Thursday, a holy day of obligation, May 5, 2016 at 7PM at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul, Philadelphia, PA
Celebrant: Rev. Fr. Harold B. McKale, Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Doylestown, PA & Chaplain, Traditional Latin Mass Community of Philadelphia; Deacon: Rev. Fr. James Bartoloma, Chancellor of the Diocese of Camden; Subdeacon: Rev. Fr. Sean Loomis, Parochial Vicar, St. Bede Parish, Holland, PA
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A Solemn High Mass for Corpus Christi, Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 7 PM at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul, Philadelphia, PA
Celebrant: Rev. Msgr. Charles Sangermano, Pastor of Holy Savior Parish, Norristown, PA; Deacon: Rev. Fr. Gerald Carey, Parochial Vicar, our Lady of Perpetual Help, Morton, PA; Subdeacon: Rev. Fr. Harold B. McKale, Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Parish, Doylestown, PA & Chaplain, Traditional Latin Mass Community of Philadelphia
Events: If anyone has pertinent information that would be appropriate for our bulletin, please e-mail it to Fr. McKale at tlmcommunityofphila@gmail.com.
Mass Intentions: If anyone still has unfulfilled Mass intentions, Fr. McKale can pass them on to a priest that will satisfy the intention by offering a TLM or Divine Liturgy (Byzantine). Please specify if you have a preference. The donation is $10. If you would like a Mass card, please include an extra $5 for the card.
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