{"id":1117,"date":"2016-04-30T17:36:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2016-04-30T17:36:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T21:36:38","slug":"st-joseph-the-worker-5th-sunday-after-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2016\/04\/st-joseph-the-worker-5th-sunday-after-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Joseph the Worker: 5th Sunday after Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Announcements for Sunday, May 1, 2016<\/p>\n

Priest: Rev. Fr. James Bartoloma<\/p>\n

Mass Intention: Mr. & Mrs. Thomas & Mary Mensch (RIP) req. by Mark Matthews<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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A Seminarian’s Request…<\/p>\n

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Laudetur Iesus Christus In saecula! Amen.<\/em><\/div>\n
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My\u00c2\u00a0name is\u00c2\u00a0Ian McNally. You\u00c2\u00a0may recognize me as\u00c2\u00a0the fellow\u00c2\u00a0who serves at Saint Edmond’s\u00c2\u00a0and attends various celebrations of the\u00c2\u00a0traditional Mass\u00c2\u00a0in the greater Philadelphia\u00c2\u00a0area. I am\u00c2\u00a0excited to share\u00c2\u00a0a wonderful\u00c2\u00a0announcement with you.<\/div>\n
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Following a year and a half of visits to various oratories and\u00c2\u00a0conversations with\u00c2\u00a0numerous\u00c2\u00a0priests, I have been accepted into the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest\u00c2\u00a0as a candidate for priestly\u00c2\u00a0formation. Since the age of fourteen I have discerned a vocation to\u00c2\u00a0the priesthood and now at\u00c2\u00a0last\u00c2\u00a0I 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\u00c2\u00a0received a phone call from the\u00c2\u00a0provincial superior. He confirmed that\u00c2\u00a0my letter of assignment would be mailed to me in June and that it was my responsibility to search for benefactors\u00c2\u00a0to provide financial support for my formation.<\/div>\n
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For American seminarians, the first year of formation\u00c2\u00a0occurs\u00c2\u00a0at the oratories located in\u00c2\u00a0Chicago, Saint Louis,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Wausau, 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\u00c2\u00a0in Tuscany. Tuition is $10,000 per year, which does not include airfare, insurance, or pocket money. To afford the tuition of high school and\u00c2\u00a0college my family\u00c2\u00a0sacrificed greatly and now it is my duty to finance my\u00c2\u00a0seminary education. Unfortunately, my entire\u00c2\u00a0life savings amount to little more than\u00c2\u00a0one year’s tuition. In addition to the cross of\u00c2\u00a0acquiring my own funds, I must humbly\u00c2\u00a0relinquish the comfort of my\u00c2\u00a0mother tongue\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0become proficient in the\u00c2\u00a0French language,\u00c2\u00a0as it\u00c2\u00a0is the language of the Institute. Much is expected of me. Leaving my fatherland for a distant\u00c2\u00a0country overseas, undergoing immersion into an international European environment, and receiving orthodox instruction in philosophy and scholastic theology are imposing challenges indeed.\u00c2\u00a0Though a great burden, I am not daunted and I shall explain why.<\/div>\n
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The Mystical Body of Christ is suffering a Passion of her own. Indeed,\u00c2\u00a0the spotless Bride has become marred and disfigured beyond recognition in imitation of her divine Bridegroom\u00c2\u00a0on 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\u00c2\u00a0sink this\u00c2\u00a0sole\u00c2\u00a0ark of salvation.\u00c2\u00a0For fifty years our holy mother the Church\u00c2\u00a0has been\u00c2\u00a0hemorrhaging from the five wounds of neo-modernism, liturgical innovation, false ecumenism, religious indifferentism, and ambiguous ecclesiology. We failed to\u00c2\u00a0listen to\u00c2\u00a0the prophetic\u00c2\u00a0warnings of Saint Pius X and his predecessors. Now\u00c2\u00a0the only\u00c2\u00a0remedy to this suffering is\u00c2\u00a0the balm\u00c2\u00a0of\u00c2\u00a0Holy Tradition. Weak and\u00c2\u00a0fragile earthen vessel that I am, I yearn with my entire being\u00c2\u00a0to apply that medicine. I do not seek to\u00c2\u00a0be\u00c2\u00a0a hireling; what\u00c2\u00a0I 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\u00c2\u00a0poor bread of my life into Thy\u00c2\u00a0divine life; thrill the wine of my wasted life into\u00c2\u00a0Thy\u00c2\u00a0divine Spirit.”\u00c2\u00a0I 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\u00c2\u00a0unapologetically Catholic. I seek for nothing other than\u00c2\u00a0to contribute, however miniscule, to the exultation of the one\u00c2\u00a0true faith over all innovation and heresy. In short, I\u00c2\u00a0want to heed the call of the Institute’s motto: veritatem facientes in caritate<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0— live the truth in charity<\/em>.<\/div>\n
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If you, anyone\u00c2\u00a0you are acquainted with, or any organization you\u00c2\u00a0know of\u00c2\u00a0would 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.\u00c2\u00a0Kindly read the following instructions for more information.<\/div>\n
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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, <\/strong>on a separate piece of paper specify <\/strong>the cheque is for\u00c2\u00a0Ian McNally’s\u00c2\u00a0formation.\u00c2\u00a0Address the cheque with\u00c2\u00a0the 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.<\/em> 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<\/a>.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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Above all, please pray to Saints Benedict, Thomas Aquinas, and Francis de Sales for me\u00c2\u00a0that I might courageously\u00c2\u00a0carry out\u00c2\u00a0the will of the thrice-holy God in my state of life.<\/div>\n
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Sincerely yours in Jesus and Mary,<\/div>\n
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Ian McNally<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Upcoming Masses:<\/p>\n

A Solemn High Mass for Ascension Thursday, a holy day of obligation, May 5, 2016 at 7PM<\/span><\/span> at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul, Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

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A Solemn High Mass for Corpus Christi, Thursday, May 26, 2016 at 7 PM<\/span><\/span> at the Cathedral Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul, Philadelphia, PA<\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n

Events: If anyone has pertinent information that would be appropriate for our bulletin, please e-mail it to Fr. McKale at tlmcommunityofphila@gmail.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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