25th Sunday after Pentecost (Text: 6th Resumed Sunday after Epiphany) St. Edmond’s Announcements for Sunday, November 15, 2015

Priest: Rev. Fr. Ed Burke
Mass Intention: Fatima Consecration of Russia req. by Purgatorial Society.
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All Souls’ Remembrances: Don’t forget to turn in your All Souls’ Remembrances. Envelopes should be available at St. Edmond’s. They may be accepted through the month of November. The priests will remember your deceased loved ones in their prayers this month.

Also, if anyone took video or pictures of the All Souls Day Mass at the cathedral, please consider sharing them with us so they may be placed on our website.

Tax Exemption Filing: As you may recall, TLM Community of Philadelphia was incorporated in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on July 30, 2014. Application for exemption must be filed within 27 months of the date of incorporation (i.e. October 30, 2016). Our lawyer, John McGuire, has informed me that our paperwork is ready to be filed. Within the next four weeks, a check will need to be written to the US Treasury in the amount of $850.00. Please continue to be generous in your sacrificial offerings so that we may absorb this expense more easily. Thank you as always. Fr. McKale.

Seminary Collection: The St. Charles Borromeo Seminary Annual Appeal is this month. All of the priests who offer the TLM at St. Edmond’s were trained at St. Charles. I ask you to be as generous as your means allow in supporting vocations to the priesthood as well as to the seminaries that train them.

Presently, one of the biggest obstacles to men entering the seminary is their parents who desire they do something else. Please be a generous giver to God and encourage your sons, grandsons, brothers, nephews and cousins to allow God the first chance at their heart and consider whether God may be calling them to serve Him in this special way. If you do, God will bless you abundantly.

Chapel Veils: A young woman recently asked whether the chapel veils must be worn while attending the TLM. The short answer is they are not required but certainly encouraged. Whether to observe this particular custom is up to you. If you have interest, on YouTube there are many videos which speak to its meaning and significance, one of which was on our website in the past.

Upcoming Masses:

A) Please note that we will be celebrating the External Solemnity of St. Edmond’s on November 22. His actual feast day is November 16. Fr. Bartoloma is scheduled that week.

B) Solemn High Mass the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul on December 8, 2015 at 7PM. Fr. Dennis Carbonaro, Pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption, Strafford, PA will be offering the Mass. Fr Gerald Carey, Parochial Vicar of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Morton, PA will assist as Deacon & Fr. Phil Forlano, Pastoral Care of Hispanic Community at Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Hilltown will assist as Sub deacon.

Planned Giving: Please consider remembering us in your will. Our official name is “Traditional Latin Mass Community of Philadelphia.”

International Institute for Culture: Check out upcoming events at http://www.iiculture.org/aboutus.asp.

Events: If anyone has pertinent information that would be appropriate for our bulletin, please e-mail it to Fr. McKale @ 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.

REMINDER: Pray for the Holy Souls.

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Remembering our Beloved Dead
During the Month of the Holy Souls, we remember our deceased relatives and friends in both personal and public prayer. It is a good and salutary practice to have Masses offered for the happy repose of the souls of the deceased. In the past, families often had Masses offered on the Months mind (one month after the deceased died), and then annually on the anniversary of a person’s death, marking special anniversaries such 5th, 10th, 25th, etc. To have such Masses offered, please stop by the rectory.
A Catholic tradition for 1300 years, Gregorian Masses are a series of 30 Holy Masses offered on 30 consecutive days exclusively for the repose of the soul of a departed person. This pious practice comes to us from Pope St. Gregory the Great who was the first to popularize it. The Saint relates in his Dialogues how, when he had finished a series of thirty Masses for a departed monk, the monk miraculously appeared to him to tell him that he had gained entry into glory on the completion of the Masses. The Sacred Congregation for Indulgences has declared that the confidence of the faithful in the special efficacy of the Gregorian Masses is “pious and reasonable” (August 24, 1888). The special fruits of these Masses apply only to the deceased.
While we would be unable to offer a novena of Masses (nine consecutive Masses) or Gregorian (30 consecutive Masses) here, you can make arrangements (Tridentine Masses) with an individual priest or contact Clear Creek Monastery, 5804 West Monastery Road, Hulbert, OK 74441-5698. Gregorian Masses require a minimum stipend of $300 and a novena of Masses requires a minimum stipend of $90.
Another source for Gregorian Masses (Novus Ordo) is the Pauline Fathers. You may arrange to have Gregorian Masses offered for a loved one by writing to: Pauline Fathers, P.O. Box 2049, Doylestown, PA 18901. The stipend for these Masses is $450.00. Gregorian Mass requests are directed to the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Poland.

Prayer for the Deceased:

“O Lord God omnipotent, I beseech Thee by Thy Precious Blood, which Thy divine Son Jesus shed in the Garden, deliver the souls in Purgatory, and especially that one which is most forsaken of all, and bring it into Thy glory, where it may praise and bless Thee forever. Amen.”
Our Father… Hail Mary… Glory Be…