St. Lawrence Distributing Alms, by Fra Angelico, 1447-1449.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and charity through confession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in the Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the

Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Assistant: Rev. Fr. John Shannon, FSSP

Office: 602-374-5067 Cell: 480-231-0573 (for urgent messages) Fax: 602-466-1623

Church: 1537 W. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mail: 2312 E. Campbell Ave. Phoenix, AZ 85016

Email: contact@phoenixlatinmass.org Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org

Notitiæ August 8, 2010

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost, Class II, Green 1 Corinthians 15: 1-10; St. Mark 7: 31-37

Intentions:

9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission, Monroe St. Church 9:00 am: Pro Populo; 11:00 am: Paula Daniero

Intentions:

8:00 am Low Mass (Second Sunday in Flagstaff); 10:00 am Mass at St. Cecilia (Clarkdale, AZ) 8:00 am: Pro Populo; 10:00 am: Pro Populo

Weekday Masses

At Mater Misericordiae Mission, Monroe St. Church

Monday - Friday: 6:30 am and 6:30 pm, Saturday: 6:30 am and 8:00 am

Monday, August 9 Thursday, August 12

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Vigil of St. Laurence Class II, Violet

Eccl. 51: 1-8, 12; St. Matthew 16: 24-27

6:30am: Matt Jacobs

6:30pm: George Bright, Sr.+

Propers: Readings: Intentions:

St. Clare, Virgin Class III, White

2 Corinthians 10: 17-18; 11: 1-2;

St. Matthew 25: 1-13 6:30am: James Batterman

6:30pm: George Bright, Sr.+

Tuesday, August 10 Friday, August 13

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Laurence, Martyr Class II, Red

2 Corinthians 9: 6-10; St. John 12: 24-26

6:30am: Fran Kunasek

6:30pm: George Bright, Sr.+

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Ss. Hippolytus and Cassian, Martyrs Commemoration, Red

Hebrews 10: 32-38; St. Luke 12: 1-8 6:30am: Ville de Marie Academy

6:30pm: Souls in Purgatory+

Wednesday, August 11 Saturday, August 14

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Ss. Tiburtius and Susanna, Martyrs,

Commemoration, Red Hebrews 11: 33-39; St. Luke 12: 1-8

6:30am: Barbara Watkins 6:30pm: Souls in Purgatory+

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Vigil of the Assumption of the BVM, Class II, Violet

Eccl. 24: 23-31; St. Luke 11:27-28

6:30am: Ville de Marie Academy

6:30pm: Souls in Purgatory+

Confessions Weekdays: 15 minutes before each Mass. Saturdays: 3:30-4:30 pm at St. Thomas and MMM Church.

Sundays: 8am, before the 9am Mass, between the 9am and 11am Masses, and after the 11am Mass.

Before the 10am Mass at St. Cecilia’s, if possible. Other times by arrangement.

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Potluck today after the 11AM

High Mass in the Church Hall: Please come to the first potluck at our own church hall. This will also

serve as an opportunity to welcome

our new priest, Fr. John Shannon.

CONFRATERNITY OF CHRISTIAN MOTHERS -

CALL TO GRANDMOTHERS! We are very blessed to have more and more ladies of the Parish attending our Confraternity meetings on the third Saturday of each month. We would like to warmly invite all women of the Parish, married and single, children or no, to join us and find friendship and support at our monthly meetings. Many ladies who attend have young families

(children and babies are always welcome to come along), and we would like to make a plea to invite more grandmothers of the Parish to attend! Why Grandmothers? Grandmothers have a unique and irre-placeable role within the family, often providing spiri-

tual and emotional support to their daughters and daughters-in-law, and are a role-model, friend and

support to their grandchildren. Grandmothers are es-sential to Catholic family life where the fulfillment of Christian home education is to be realized. Join us in our discussions of raising happy, healthy Catholic (grand)children and strengthening our own spiritual lives, and bring us your wisdom and insight from your own experiences. We need you!

Reminder: The Confraternity will be meeting Saturday, August 21st, location to be determined, 9am-11am. Questions, please call Amy O'Meara 602-277-5868 .

Sermon LXXXV

On the Feast of S. Laurence the Martyr By Pope St. Leo the Great

I. The Example of the Martyrs is Most Valuable Whilst the height of all virtues, dearly-beloved, and the fulness of all righteousness is born of that love, where-

with God and one's neighbour is loved, surely in none is this love found more conspicuous and brighter than in the blessed martyrs; who are as near to our Lord Jesus, Who died for all men, in the imitation of His love, as in the likeness of their suffering. For, although that Love, wherewith the Lord has redeemed us, can-not be equalled by any man's kindness, because it is

one thing that a man who is doomed to die one day should die for a righteous man, and another that One

Who is free from the debt of sin should lay down His life for the wicked : yet the martyrs also have done great service to all men, in that the Lord Who gave them boldness, has used it to show that the penalty of

death and the pain of the cross need not be terrible to any of His followers, but might be imitated by many of them. If therefore no good man is good for himself alone, and no wise man's wisdom befriends himself only, and the nature of true virtue is such that it leads many away from the dark error on which its light is shed, no model is more useful in teaching God's people

than that of the martyrs. Eloquence may make inter-cession easy, reasoning may effectually persuade; but yet examples are stronger than words, and there is more teaching in practice than in precept.

SUNDAY COLLECT. Almighty and eternal God, who in the abundance of Thy loving kindness art wont to give beyond the de-serts and desires of those who humbly pray; pour

down Upon us Thy mercy, forgiving us these things of which our conscience is afraid, and granting us those

blessings Which we dare not presume to ask. Through.

SUNDAY EPISTLE: 1 Corinthians 15: 1-10 Brethren: I make known unto you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and

wherein you stand, by which also you are saved, if you hold fast after what manner I preached unto you, unless you have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures; and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures; and that He was seen by

Cephas, and after that by the eleven. Then was He seen by more than five hundred brethren at once; of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep. After that He was seen by James then by

all the apostles. And last of all He was seen also by me, as by one born out of due time. For I am the least of the apostles, who am not worthy to be called an apos-

tle, because I persecuted the church of God; but by the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace in me hath not been void.

SUNDAY GOSPEL: St. Mark 7: 31-37 At that time, Jesus going out of the coasts of Tyre, came by Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the midst

of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to Him one deaf and dumb, and they besought Him that He would lay His hand upon him. And taking him from the multi-tude apart, He put His fingers into his ears, and spit-ting, He touched his tongue; and looking up to heaven, He groaned and said to him: Ephphetha, which is, Be

thou opened: and immediately his ears were opened,

and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spoke right. And He charged them that they should tell no man: but the more He charged them so much the more a great deal did they publish it; and so much the more did they wonder, saying: He hath done all things well; He hath made both the deaf to hear and the

dumb to speak.

FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS Aug. 8: Fr. Joseph Lee Aug. 9: Fr. Mark Wojdelski Aug. 10: Fr. John Berg Aug. 11: Fr. George Gabet

Aug. 12: Fr. Joseph Terra Aug. 13: Fr. Jose Zepeda Aug. 14: Fr. Jared McCambridge

II. The Saint's Martyrdom Described. And how gloriously strong in this most excellent manner of doctrine the blessed martyr Laurentius is, by whose suf-ferings to-day is marked, even his persecutors were able to feel, when they found that his wondrous courage, born

principally of love for Christ, not only did not yield itself, but also strengthened others by the example of his endur-ance. For when the fury of the gentile potentates was raging against Christ's most chosen members, and attacked

those especially who were of priestly rank, the wicked persecutor's wrath was vented on Laurentius the deacon, who was pre-eminent not only in the performance of the sacred rites, but also in the management of the church's prop-erty , promising himself double spoil from one man's capture: for if he forced him to surrender the sacred treasures, he would also drive him out of the pale of true religion. And so this man, so greedy of money and such a foe to the truth, arms himself with double weapon: with avarice to plunder the gold; with impiety to carry off Christ. He de-

mands of the guileless guardian of the sanctuary that the church wealth on which his greedy mind was set should be brought to him. But the holy deacon showed him where he had them stored, by pointing to the many troops of poor saints, in the feeding and clothing of whom he had a store of riches which he could hot lose, and which were the more entirely safe that the money had been spent on so holy a cause. III. Description of His Sufferings Continued.

The baffled plunderer, therefore, frets, and blazing out into hatred of a religion, which had put riches to such a use, determines to pillage a still greater treasure by carrying off that sacred deposit, wherewith he was enriched, as he could find no solid hoard of money in his possession. He orders Laurentius to renounce Christ, and prepares to ply

the deacon's stout courage with frightful tortures: and, when the first elicit nothing, fiercer follow. His limbs, torn and mangled by many cutting blows, are commanded to be broiled upon the fire in an iron framework, which was of itself already hot enough to burn him, and on which his limbs were turned from time to time, to make the torment

fiercer, and the death more lingering. IV. Laurentius Has Conquered His Persecutor. Thou gainest nothing, thou prevailest nothing, O savage cruelty. His mortal frame is released from thy devices, and, when Laurentius departs to heaven, thou art vanquished. The flame of Christ's love could not be overcome by thy flames, and the fire which burnt outside was less keen than that which blazed within. Thou didst but serve the mar-

tyr in thy rage, O persecutor: thou didst but swell the reward in adding to the pain. For what did thy cunning devise, which did not redound to the conqueror's glory, when even the instruments of torture were counted as part of the triumph? Let us rejoice, then, dearly-beloved, with spiritual joy, and make our boast over the happy end of this illus-trious man in the Lord, Who is "wonderful in His saints," in whom He has given us a support and an example, and has so spread abroad his glory throughout the world, that, from the rising of the sun to its going down, the bright-ness of his deacon's light doth shine, and Rome is become as famous in Laurentius as Jerusalem was ennobled by

Stephen. By his prayer and intercession we trust at all times to be assisted; that, because all, as the Apostle says, "who wish to live holily in Christ, suffer persecution," we may be strengthened with the spirit of love, and be fortified to overcome all temptations by the perseverance of steadfast faith. Through our Lord Jesus Christ...

from The Golden Legend, A.D. 1275 by Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa

"I shall not leave thee, my son, but greater strifes and battles be due to thee for the faith of Jesu Christ. We, as old

men, have taken more lighter battle, and to thee as to a young man shall remain a more glorious battle of which thou shalt triumph and have victory of the tyrant, and shalt follow me within three days." Then he delivered to him all the treasures, commanding him that he should give them to churches and poor people. And the blessed man sought the poor people night and day, and gave to each of them that as was needful, and came to the house of an old woman, which had hid in her house many Christian men and women, and long she had had the headache, and St. Laurence laid his hand upon her head, and anon she was healed of the ache and pain.

And he washed the feet of the poor people and gave to each of them alms. The same night he went to the house of a

Christian man and found therein a blind man, and gave to him his sight by the sign of the cross. And when the blessed Sixtus would not consent to Decius, ne offer to the idols, he commanded that he should be led forth and be-headed...

… And the ministers despoiled him, and laid him stretched out upon a gridiron of iron, and laid burning coals under, and held him with forks of iron. Then said Laurence to Valerianus: Learn, thou cursed wretch, that thy coals give to me refreshing of coldness, and make ready to thee torment perdurable, and our Lord knoweth that I, being accused,

have not forsaken him, and when I was demanded I confessed him Christ, and I being roasted give thankings unto God. And after this he said with a glad cheer unto Decius, Thou cursed wretch, thou hast roasted that one side, turn that other, and eat. And then he, rendering thankings to our Lord, said: I thank thee, Lord Jesu Christ, for I have deserved to enter into

thy gates.