La Trinidad by José de Ribera, 1635

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.

Church Address: 1537 West Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Office: 602-253-6090 Fax: 602-253-8013

Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org Pastor: Rev. Fr. Howard Remski, FSSP Email: pastor@phoenixlatinmass.org Cell: 941-726-4423 Assistant Pastor: Rev. Fr. Michael Passo, FSSP Email: asstpastor@phoenixlatinmass.org Cell: 402-659-9966

Notitiæ May 22, 2016

Weekday Masses

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

Monday, May 23 Thursday, May 26

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Feria Class IV

6:30am: Janice Russell +

No Monday Evening Mass.

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Feast of Corpus Christi Class I, White

1 Corinthians 11: 23-29

St. John 6: 56-59 6:30am: Joseph Mahar

6:30pm: No Evening Mass This Week.

Tuesday, May 24 Friday, May 27

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

Feria Class IV

6:30am: Sue Flannigan +

6:30pm: No Evening Mass This Week.

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Bede the Venerable Confessor and Doctor, Class III, White

2 Timothy 4: 1-8

St. Matthew 5: 13-19 6:30am: Margie Scrip +

6:30pm: No Evening Mass This Week.

Wednesday, May 25 Saturday, May 28

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Gregory VII

Pope and Confessor, Class III, White 1 Peter 5: 1-4, 10-11

St. Matthew 16: 13-19 6:30am: Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sanders 6:30pm: No Evening Mass This Week.

Propers: Readings:

Intentions:

St. Augustine of Canterbury Archbishop and Confessor, Class III, White

1 Thessalonians 2: 2-9

St. Luke 10: 1-9 6:30am: Margie Scrip +

8:00am: No 8:00am Mass Today.

Confessions Monday-Saturday: 30 minutes before each Mass. Other times by arrangement.

Sundays: Before the 7am Mass, between the 7am, 9am, and 11am Masses, and after the 11am Mass.

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Trinity Sunday, Class I, White Romans 11: 33-36; St. Matthew 28: 18-20

Intentions:

7:00 am Low Mass; 9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass 70:00 am: Pro Populo; 9:00 am: Julia Nadon 11:00 am: Terry

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Upcoming Liturgical Calendar:

Monday, May 23 through Saturday, May 28: Only the 6:30AM Daily Mass these days. Sunday, May 29: Limited

confession schedule.

Feast of Corpus Christi: The ex-

ternal solemnity of Corpus Christi will be observed at next Sunday's 11:00

Mass. There will be no outdoor procession, but there will be Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament following that Mass. Low Masses will be for the Second Sunday after Pentecost.

New Parish Survey: As our parish grows, and

schedules change, we want to keep everyone up to date on important events in the sacramental as well as the social life of Mater Misericordiae Mission. To reach you in a quick and timely manner, we are hoping to create a parish email list. This will be for official parish

purposes only and will not be shared with third parties. To receive these updates about Mass and confession

schedules, as well as other important events, we invite you to visit the survey link published on our website and in the Notitiae:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CNQRXJD

N.B. Please complete this survey, even if you have completed previous requests for a directory in the past.

Pro-Life Rosary: Fr. Remski and Fr. Passo would

like to continue the steadfast practice of praying out-side the abortion clinic, now on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Please join us if you are able to attend. The Rosary will be from 9am-10am, Tuesdays, at the Glen-dale Planned Parenthood site located at 5771 W. Eugie; and from 8:30am-9:30am, Thursdays, at Family Plan-ning Associates located at 700 E. Willeta in Phoenix.

Pray for Our Parish Vocations: Please pray for

our young men: Deacon Caleb Insco, and seminarians Martin Garcia, Rick Wallace, Elijah Mundattuchundayil;

as well as David Tedford, a seminarian at Holy Apostles Seminary in Cromwell, CT. Pray also for Sr. Mary Tho-mas O.Praem of the California Norbertines. Pray also for those who are still discerning their vocation.

Trip to the Miraculous Staircase with Fr. Passo:

On June 24-25, please join Fr. Passo and other parish-ioners to the Loretto Chapel in New Mexico. Fr. Passo will celebrate a High Mass at 6:30 PM on June 24 at the Loretto Chapel. There will also be a half-day rafting trip

on June 25 from 8 AM to 12 PM for those interested. Discounted room rates are provided for this trip. For information contact Ted Brennan at 602-882-3838.

Equites Traditionis: The Equestrian Order of the

Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem (established in A.D.1099)

is charged with providing for the needs of the Diocese of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem though prayer and alms. If any member of MMM is interested in this Papal lay order, please contact Sir Richard Haefer or

Lady Vianney De La Pava-Haefer at 480 998-1903 or r.haefer@asu.edu for information about the Order.

FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS

May 22: Fr. Robert Ferguson May 23: Fr. Stephane Dupre May 24: Fr. Anthony Forte May 25: Fr. Gregory Eichman May 26: Fr. James Fryar

May 27: Fr. Evaristus Eshiowu

May 28: Fr. Laurent Demets

SUNDAY COLLECT.

O almighty and everlasting God, who hast granted to Thy servants, in confessing the true Father, to ac-knowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Majesty to adore the Unity: we beseech Thee,

that by steadfastness in the same Faith, we may ever be defended against all adversity. Through our Lord.

SUNDAY EPISTLE: Romans 11: 33-36

O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the

knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His judg-ments, and how unsearchable His ways! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and recom-pense shall be made Him? For of Him, and by Him, and in Him, are all things: to Him be glory for ever. Amen. .

SUNDAY GOSPEL: St. Matthew 28: 18-20

At that time Jesus said to His disciples: All is power given to Me in heaven and on earth. Going therefore,

teach ye all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have com-manded you; and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.

ADDITIONAL PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Congregational Singing: All hymn/page numbers

are posted on the hymn board to the left of the Com-munion rail. At High Mass, the unaccompanied parts of the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei are to be sung

by the schola alone. The congregation should sing dur-ing these chants only when the organ plays, following

the tempo established by the schola and organ-ist. Thank you for your cooperation.

Parish Choirs: --Men's schola rehearses Wednes-

day 7:15-8:30 p.m. as well as most Saturdays 8:45-9:45 a.m. and sings for High Mass every Sunday plus First Fridays, First Saturdays, and feast days. Prospective members are invited to attend a rehearsal before making any commitment. --Mixed adult choir rehearses Thursday 7:15-8:30 p.m.

and will sing for the 11:00 Mass at least once a month. This choir is currently near capacity with open-ings for tenors only. Please fill out a registration form (available on the table in the vestibule) if interested in joining when there is an opening for your voice part.

--Children's choir rehearses Friday 5:00-6:00 p.m. and sings for either the 9:00 or 11:00 Mass at least once a

month. New members age 6 or older are welcome at any time.

Our Lady of the Rosary - Marian Retreat Glorious Mysteries

The Descent of the Holy Spirit

Excerpt by Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J.

The present meditation is on the Third Glorious Mystery of the Rosary, the Descent of the Holy Spirit. First, by the way of a fairly long introduction. The Third Glorious Mystery, is in its way, is the consummation of all the

other Mysteries of the Rosary before what began at

Nazareth on earth ended at Jerusalem on earth. We may safely say that the Person who came down on Our Lady at Nazareth was the same Divine Person who came down on those awaiting His coming in Jerusalem. At Nazareth the Angel told Our Lady that the Holy Spirit would come upon her so that she would conceive

and bear a Son who would be the Son of the Most High. Thus the Holy Spirit began the work of the Incar-nation. As the Spouse of the Holy Spirit, Mary became the Mother of God become Man. That was the begin-ning. Some thirty-three years intervened then the pur-pose of that first coming of the Holy Spirit on Our Lady

was finally fulfilled when He actually descended and the term we should use descended on the Church and has been descending ever since. I've checked my sources -

one Pope after another for centuries back says it was because Mary was with those people in Jerusalem. It was her intercession, her prayer that obtained the coming of the Holy Spirit that her Son had promised

but I repeat had promised indeed but conditioned on Mary's intercessory prayer.

Our First Responsibility - To Understand What We Believe Our purpose in this meditation will be first, to identify, in some sequence, the main events that took place on Pentecost Sunday; then, choose three aspects of the Mystery of Pentecost that we should more deeply un-

derstand. Our first responsibility as Christians, and surely as priests and religious, is to understand what

we believe. We will choose three aspects of the Mys-

tery of Pentecost for special attention and deepening of our understanding. And then, finally, apply what the Holy Spirit wants to teach us right now about the meaning and the need for Pentecost.

Acts of the Apostles - Gospel of the Holy Spirit

We start, then, with the New Testament narrative. As you know, the one who gives us the whole story of Pentecost was the disciple of St. Paul, namely, Luke the Evangelist. This is so true that we may correctly

say that St. Luke wrote two Gospels- the one that com-monly goes by his name at the end of which, remem-ber, he recalls Christ's promise of the Holy Spirit. And the second Gospel commonly called the Acts of the Apostles which is a continuation now of the life of Christ just before His Ascension and then of the work

of Christ in first sending the Holy Spirit on Pentecost. The standard name, going back to the early years of the Church, for the Acts of Apostles is the Gospel of the Holy Spirit. The marvels which the Holy Spirit who first

came on Pentecost Sunday, the marvels the Holy Spirit achieved in that early Church are a litany of miracles, miracles especially in the moral order. And how we

need to believe that the same Holy Spirit who began His marvelous work of converting the pagan world in the first century, shall we say it, needs to convert the modern pagan world as we come to the close of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first cen-tury. Altogether St. Luke gives us no less than forty-one verses - it's the first forty-one verses of his second

chapter in the Acts of the Apostles, all about Pentecost. Here is a sequence, very briefly, of what occurred. Making Retreats is Part of Divine Revelation First, there came a sound from Heaven, and Luke says

the sound came from Heaven like a violent wind. It filled the whole house where Mary and the Apostles and the disciples of Jesus were gathered. Why? Be-cause He told them to. The first novena - if you set off Ascension Thursday - it's nine full days till the coming of the Holy Spirit; also, and not incoincidentally, the first retreat. Making retreats is part of Divine Revela-

tion. It might be well to just mention that there were about a hundred and twenty people, Luke says. He's always precise. He mentioned there were men and women called disciples - good to hear.

Third happening. Suddenly, first the wind, violent. Sud-denly there appeared parted tongues of fire and they settled on all a hundred twenty. And each one as a re-sult, so Luke says, was filled with the Holy Spirit and

began to speak (I'm still quoting Luke) in foreign

tongues. Before we go any further, it might be well worth mentioning that what are now called popularly the charismatic gifts; an authentic charismatic gift is never received for the benefit of the one who receives it. An authentic charismatic gift, by the Church's defini-tion, is either apostolic and then comes from the Holy

Spirit or it is not apostolic and then is not from the Holy Spirit. And very shortly the purpose of receiving what we might say was a strange gift to receive - for-eign tongues - for whom? Surely not for the hundred and twenty gathered in Jerusalem. As I've been telling people over the years, my friend there is work to be done and you need the means to, well, do the work.

Like what? If we're to proclaim Christ, we first must

know Him! But then we've got to be able to communi-cate to those to whom we wish to bring Christ.