Philadelphia Chapter

Priest: Rev. Fr. Gerald Carey.

Mass Intention: Fatima Consecration of Russia req. by Purgatorial Society.

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Christmas Flowers: Christmas Flower envelopes are available. Please consider contributing to the Christmas decorations of St. Edmond.

Archbishop’s Lecture Series: Professor Michael Hanby, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family,
The Truth Will Set You Free: Liberal Order and the Future of Christian Freedom, Monday, December 7, 2015 @ 7PM in St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Vianney Hall Auditorium, 100 E. Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA. For more information, see PhillyEvang.org/lectures.

Upcoming Masses:

A) 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.
Please remember this is a Holy Day of obligation for all Catholics.

B) Rorate Mass: St. Peter Church, 43 West Maple Avenue, Merchantville, NJ 08109, Saturday, December 12, 2015 @ 6:00 AM.

Seek not the face of the Priest in the Mass, but the face of Almighty God!

The unique European tradition of the Rorate Mass where the Church will be illuminated with only candlelight as Mass is offered in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin) and will anticipate the beauty of another dawn. If you have never attended the Rorate Mass, please plan on doing so this year!

C) Christmas Day Mass, Friday, December 25: Mass will be at St. Edmond Church at Noon.

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 as well as legal fees of additional $945.00 Please continue to be generous in your sacrificial offerings so that we may absorb this expense more easily. Thank you as always. Fr. McKale
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.

St. Peter Church, 43 West Maple Avenue, Merchantville, NJ 08109, Saturday, December 12, 2015, at 6:00 a.m.

Seek not the face of the Priest in the Mass, but the face of Almighty God!

The unique European tradition of the Rorate Mass where the Church will be illuminated with only candlelight as Mass is offered in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin) and will anticipate the beauty of another dawn. If you have never attended the Rorate Mass, please plan on doing so this year!

Priest: Rev. Fr. Harold B. McKale.

Mass Intention: Tommasina Bencivenga (RIP) req. by George & Marialena Gunning.

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Christmas Flowers: Christmas Flower envelopes are available. Please consider contributing to the Christmas decorations of St. Edmond.

Archbishop’s Lecture Series:

Professor Michael Hanby, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family,
The Truth Will Set You Free: Liberal Order and the Future of Christian Freedom, Monday, December 7, 2015 @ 7PM in St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Vianney Hall Auditorium, 100 E. Wynnewood Road, Wynnewood, PA. For more information, see PhillyEvang.org/lectures.

Upcoming Masses:

A) 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 Subdeacon.
Please remember this is a Holy Day of obligation for all Catholics.

B) Rorate Mass: St. Peter Church, 43 West Maple Avenue, Merchantville, NJ 08109, Saturday, December 12, 2015, @ 6:00 AM.

Seek not the face of the Priest in the Mass, but the face of Almighty God!

The unique European tradition of the Rorate Mass where the Church will be illuminated with only candlelight as Mass is offered in the Extraordinary Form (Traditional Latin) and anticipate the beauty of another dawn. If you have never attended the Rorate Mass, please plan on doing so this year!

C) Christmas Day Mass, Friday, December 25: Mass will be at St. Edmond Church at Noon.

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 as well as legal fees of additional $945.00 Please continue to be generous in your sacrificial offerings so that we may absorb this expense more easily. Thank you as always. Fr. McKale.

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.

Priest: Rev. Fr. James Bartoloma

Mass Intention: Dee, Connie, Fran, Augie, req. by John A. Laurito

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All Souls Remembrances: Don’t forget to turn in your All Souls’ Remembrances. Envelopes should be available at St. Edmond. They may be accepted through the month of November. The priests will remember your deceased loved ones in their prayers this month.

Christmas Flowers: Christmas Flower envelopes will be available by next week.

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 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 the fact that their parents 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.

Upcoming Masses:

A) Please note that TODAY we will be celebrating the External Solemnity of St. Edmond on November 22. His actual feast day is November 16.

B) Solemn High Mass on 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…

Manuel Valls emphasizes Catholic culture of France and warns of division.

It’s not the kind of sentiment one would expect to hear from the leader of a nation that prides itself on its history of secularism.

But in the wake of a thwarted terrorist attack on churches in France this past weekend, Prime Minister Manuel Valls was clear: attending Mass is “the most beautiful and strongest” answer to terrorism.

Valls spoke to reporters while standing next to Bishop Michel Santier of Creteil, the diocese south of Paris where one or more churches were allegedly in the crosshairs of a 24-year-old Algerian national. The plot, foiled when the student accidentally shot himself and called for an ambulance, was, according to Valls, the fifth terrorist attack authorites thwarted since the Charlie Hebdo attack in January.

“What could have happened is a shock to everyone,” Valls said, adding that he wanted to meet with Church officials to express “our deep emotion and our total solidarity…. This time, it was the Christians, the Catholics of France, who were targeted for the first time. Two churches were in the viewfinder of the individual.”

Valls said that “specific protection” is being provided to 178 Catholic places of worship.

To attack a church is to attack “a symbol of France,” the premier said. “The terrorists probably still wanted to hit the heart to divide and destroy. The answer is the gathering, is unity. That’s democracy, it’s the living together and that is the ability to respond as the French have done on January 11.

“The faithful of the Catholic religion,” he continued, “must be able to worship, go to Mass in perfect serenity. Moreover, it is the most beautiful and strongest of the answers we need to terrorism, which targets France to divide… . France has a great Christian heritage. Cathedrals, churches, chapels, attract tourists, pilgrims, thousands of the faithful around the world. This heritage must be protected, but must remain open, accessible.”

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…

First Friday, November 6, A.D. 2015, Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will be offered by Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, Parish Vicar of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Roman Catholic Church, at the Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish, 212 Welsh Road, Huntingdon Valley, PA 19006, (T) 215-947-3500, at 7:00 p.m. preceded by Confessions at 6:30 p.m. This TLM, within the Octave of All Souls Day, will be the Mass of The Dead, offered in Reparation to The Sacred Heart of Jesus and for the speedy relief, ransom and repose of the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. BLACK vestments, with conditions permitting, “Rite of Absolution of the Dead” for the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory.

First Saturday, November 7, A.D. 2015 Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) will also be offered by Fr. Harold B. Mc Kale, at the Rectory Chapel of St. Albert The Great Parish, at 9 a.m., preceded by Confessions at 8:30 a.m. This TLM, within the Octave of All Souls Day, will again be the Mass of The Dead offered in Reparation to The Immaculate Heart of Mary and for the speedy relief, ransom and repose of the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory. BLACK vestments, with conditions permitting, “Rite of Absolution of the Dead” for the Holy Souls suffering in Purgatory.

The St. Albert The Great Rectory, also known as the Parish Center, is behind the Church, which fronts on Welsh Road.

Mark Matthews

Priest: Rev. Fr. Gerald Carey

Mass Intention: Vocations to the Sacred Priesthood

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Upcoming Masses:

Solemn High Mass for All Souls & Absolution of the Dead at the Catafalque
at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul on November 2, 2015 at 7PM. Fr. James Bartoloma will be offering the Mass.

All Souls Remembrances: Don’t forget to turn in your All Souls Remembrances. Envelopes should be available at St. Edmond. They may be accepted through the month of November.

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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Indulgences for the Poor Souls

Current regulations in force by Pope Benedict XVI
I On All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit any parish church or public oratory and there recite one Our Father and one Credo.

II On all the days from November 1 though November 8 inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed.

Conditions for both indulgences:

1. Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.

2. It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.

3. Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)

4. Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.

5. Prayers must he recited for the intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. (No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.

6. A sacramental confession must he made within a week or so of completion of the prescribed work. (One confession made during the week, made with the intention of gaining all the indulgences, suffices.)

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…

Gregory DiPippo, of NLM

From: the pilgrimage’s website Una Cum Papa Nostro.

To: His Most Reverend Excellency Mons. Guido Pozzo,
Secretary of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei

On the occasion of the pilgrimage to Rome of the Coetus Internationalis Summorum Pontificum, which keeps the ancient Roman liturgy alive in the Church, the Holy Father Pope Francis sends his warm greetings, along with his wish that their participation in this devout visit to the tombs of the Apostles stirs up their fervent adherence to Christ, who is celebrated in the beauty of the liturgy, which brings us to contemplate the Lord transfigured in the light of glory, and that it bring renewed energy to their witness to the perennial message of the Christian faith. His Holiness invokes abundant gifts of the Divine Spirit, and the maternal protection of the Mother of God, and, as he asks for that they persevere in prayer in support of his Petrine ministry, from his heart imparts to Your Excellency, to the bishops participating, to the priests and all the faithful present in the sacred celebration, the requested Apostolic blessing, in favor of a fruitful journey with the Church.

Cardinal Pietro Parolin
Secretary of State

Priest: Rev. Fr. Gerald Carey
Mass Intention: Purity & Sanctity of all Priests req. by Theresa Herr
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• SOCIAL TODAY immediately after Mass; please join us in the rectory. We look forward to seeing you. Anyone who would be willing to assist with organizing future after Mass socials, please contact Theresa Herr @ vocemagna@gmail.com .

• Upcoming Masses:
• Solemn High Mass for All Souls & Absolution of the Dead at the Catafalque
• at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul on November 2, 2015 at 7PM. Fr. James Bartoloma will be offering the Mass.

• All Souls Remembrances: Don’t forget to turn in your All Souls Remembrances. Envelopes should be available at St. Edmond. They may be accepted through the month of November.

• 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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• Indulgences for the Poor Souls
• Current regulations in force by Pope Benedict XVI
• I On All Souls’ Day (Nov. 2) a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit any parish church or public oratory and there recite one Our Father and one Credo.

• II On all the days from November 1 though November 8 inclusive, a plenary indulgence, applicable only to the Poor Souls, is granted to those who visit a cemetery and pray even if only mentally for the departed.

• Conditions for both indulgences:
• Only one plenary indulgence can be granted per day.
• It is necessary to be in the state of grace, at least by completion of the work.
• Freedom from attachment to sin, even venial sin, is necessary; otherwise the indulgence is only partial. (By this is meant attachment to a particular sin, not sin in general.)
• Holy Communion must be received each time the indulgence is sought.
• Prayers must he recited for the intentions of the Holy Father on each day the indulgence is sought. (No particular prayers are prescribed. One Our Father and one Hail Mary suffice, or other suitable prayers.
• A sacramental confession must he made within a week or so of completion of the prescribed work. (One confession made during the week, made with the intention of gaining all the indulgences, suffices.)

• 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.
o 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…