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1 KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS Holy Family Council 9236 Blessed Theodore G. Romzha Assembly 2279 P.O. Box 1391 Windermere, FL 3476 The Knights Line Non-Profit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Permit No. 26 Windermere, Florida MAIL TO: DATED MATERIAL PLEASE DO NOT DELAY THE HOLY FAMILY WEB SITE - VOLUME 13, No. 10 October 2007 MESSAGE FROM THE SUPREME KNIGHT Dear Brother Knights and Friends: Devotion to Our Lady of Charity dates to the early 1600s, when a statue of the Blessed Mother holding the Christ Child was found in Cuban waters by three young men. As the story has been passed down, the three were rowing in search of salt to preserve meat for the copper miners of El Cobre. Halfway across the bay, the young men sought shelter from a storm and encamped for the night. In the morning, they saw a white bundle floating toward them. It was a statue attached to a board that was inscribed with the words: I am the Virgin of Charity ( Yo soy la Virgen de la Caridad ). A shrine was erected in her honor and devotion to Our Lady of Charity spread throughout Cuba. Our Lady of Charity now comes to Knights of Columbus everywhere as we turn to her maternal intercession in our new Marian Prayer Program. Although the Virgin of Charity has her origins in Cuba, devotion to her is altogether appropriate for the Knights of Columbus due to our first principle of charity. Our prayer program also gives us an opportunity to pray in solidarity with Pope Benedict XVI, whose first encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, was dedicated to the theme of charity. During each prayer service we will remember in a special way the pope and his worldwide ministry as the Vicar of Christ and shepherd of the Universal Church. At the conclusion of the yearlong prayer program, a spiritual bouquet will be presented to the pope, including a report on the total number of prayer services that were held and the approximate number of participants. Our Lady of Charity also had a special place in the ministry of Pope Benedict s predecessor, Pope John Paul II of happy memory, who preached the Gospel with courage during his historic pastoral trip to Cuba in January 199. In a solemn ceremony attended by thousands of Cuban Catholics, he crowned the statue of Our Lady of Charity, which was carried in procession through the streets. This Marian Prayer Program with an image of Our Lady of Charity is a graced opportunity to reflect on the virtue of charity and to make more widely known the beautiful teaching of Deus Caritas Est, in which Pope Benedict XVI explores the true nature of charity, based on love of God and love of neighbor. Following the pope s teaching, all of our charitable works for parishes, vocations, communities, schools and individuals must flow from Christian love supported by regular prayer and attendance at Mass, and be informed by the self-giving love of Jesus and the maternal heart of Mary. Charity, or love, is the virtue that must distinguish every Christian. Jesus said to his disciples during the Last Supper: As I have loved you, so you also should love one another. This is how all will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:34-35). May this Marian Prayer Program bring us all to a greater understanding of the virtue of charity and inspire us to carry Christ s love to the world around us. Carl A. Anderson Supreme Knight Council - council9236@mac.com Assembly - romzha@hotmail.com

2 Christmas Pageant Report We are about 3 months away from Christmas so it is time to start preparing for the next Christmas Pageant season. Any council that wishes to have the pageant at their parish should submit in writing the dates and times they would like the pageant. Submit more than one date if possible. The following dates are not available December 24, 25 and January 5. Once we receive a request we will forward a confirmation letter with instructions; therefore, we must have an address of the person requesting the pageant. All written requests must be in by November 5, We have openings in our cast and for support personnel this year, so if anyone is interested in being part of the pageant, please contact Michael MacMenamin at The pageant is a family event so we encourage families to participate. Fraternally, Michael Krochmalni Pageant producer Liturgical Talks By Archbishop Stephen Sulyk Metropolitan emeritus The Iconostas: Christ Pantocrator In the center of the third row of icons in a full iconostas is an icon of Christ in His glory - the Pantocrator, sitting on a throne as the Ruler, the King of the Universe. To the right and to the left of the Pantocrator on the third row are individual icons of the twelve apostles, six on each side. More than any other saints, the apostles were privileged to be with Christ during His public life on earth. They are also now privileged to be with Him on the iconostas for He said to them: You are the ones who have stood loyally by me in my temptations. I for my part assign to you the dominion my Father has assigned to me. In my kingdom you will eat and drink at my table, and you will sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel (Lk. 22:2-20). And so they are even now with Christ, the King of the Universe at His table as they were with Him at the Last Supper. The icons of the Apostles are placed on the iconostas in the certain order. To the right side of the Pantocrator are: St. Peter, his brother Andrew, followed by James the son of Alpheus, Matthew the Evangelist, Thomas and Thaddeus. On the Pantocrator s left are: John the happy birthday! To all brother Knights who were born during the month of October some years ago: John M. Ballo William R. Busk Fr. William Ennis John A. Ludke Rev, Seven J. Vanden Boogard Andrew F. Verba 2 Evangelist, the beloved disciple of Jesus, his brother James, the son of Zebedee. Then follow Philip, Bartholomew, Simon called the Zealot, Jude and Matthias, chosen by the eleven apostles to take the vacant place of Judas (Acts 1:15-26). The fourth row of a full iconostas contains six or even twelve major and minor prophets of the Old Testament, men chosen by God and given the gift of prophecy, a gift to speak for God about events of the past, present and future. Long centuries before the coming of Christ the prophets foretold the time and the place of Christ s birth, His divinity, His passion and death. This is why on the icons you will usually find the subject of their prophecy. Since the redemption of the human race was accomplished with the sacrifice of the cross, the iconostas is surmounted by an icon of the Crucifixion with the Sorrowful Mother on the right and St. John the beloved disciple on the left, both with bowed head towards Christ. Let us turn our attention now to the central icon of the third row, the icon of Christ in His glory, the Pantocrator. He is sitting on the throne and presiding, as it were, over the worship offered to God in this church. This icon reminds us that the resurrected and glorified Christ continues as the mediator between God and human beings. Being eternal God, He became man in time. Everything He did for our salvation be it His teaching, His miracles, His suffering, dying and rising from the dead was done in time and was ascribed to His person. For He had only His divine person, the second person of the Blessed Trinity. He had no human person. Thus all His actions were of divine value and quality. As God, Christ is eternal. Therefore, His entire earthly life and all His deeds passed into eternity, crossing the barriers of time and space. The heavens and the earth will pass away but my words will not pass away (Mk. 13:31). This is why the moment a priest, as Christ s representative, speaks His words over the bread and wine, Christ steps down from eternity into place and time to be vitally present among the people of God and to renew the same sacrifice He offered on the cross. In such a manner even now, at this Holy Liturgy, Christ comes from His eternity and through the hands of your priest He offers Himself with you and for you to God the Father. ASSEMBLY OFFICERS Faithful Navigator Marty Moore Faithful Captain Don Kahrer Faithful Admiral Robert Urrutia Faithful Pilot Ron Indelicato Faithful Comptroller Michael Krochmalni Faithful Purser Eugene Hawk Faithful Scribe Charles Leppert Faithful Friar Fr. Sal Pignato Yr Trustee John Long Yr Trustee Vincent Samosky Yr Trustee Michael Crawford COUNCIL OFFICERS Grand Knight Jeffrey Jones Deputy Grand Knight Charles Leppert Warden Edward Podugal Chancellor Joseph Chenette Financial Secretary Michael Krochmalni Treasurer Eugene Hawk Recorder Michael MacMenamin Advocate Alex Cooke Chaplain Fr. Sal Pignato Yr Trustee Norman Bartley Yr Trustee Donald Abate Yr Trustee Otis Hester Insurance Agent George Chandler District Deputy Don Kahrer

3 Christ: Lord and Savior BY FR. JOHN BAPTIST KU,O.P. PART 2 Jesus reveals the Father and the Holy Spirit Without the coming of Jesus Christ, we would not know about the Holy Trinity. Of all Christian teachings, the doctrine of the Trinity is the most mysterious and the hardest to understand. As Saint Augustine said, while there is no subject more dangerous or difficult, there is also no subject where finding the truth is more precious. 4 Jesus reveals that God is not solitary. On the contrary, the divine life is a life of three eternal divine persons who live in a perfect communion of love, knowledge, and glory. These three persons are God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. Jesus identifies himself as the eternal Son of God, and explains that he comes from the Father (Jn 16:2). He says also that the Father and the Son will send the Holy Spirit (Jn 15:26). One of the more revealing titles given to Christ in Holy Scripture is the name Word: In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth; and we have seen his glory, the glory as of the only Son from the Father (Jn 1:1, 14). (See also Rv 19:13.) Why is the Son of God called the Word? A word, of course, is an expression of something in the mind of the person speaking. When we human beings speak, we reveal our minds. It is extremely satisfying when we can express ourselves completely and forcefully, especially when we are uttering a deep conviction or are putting into words a strong feeling of love, anger, or sorrow. By contrast, if we cannot make ourselves understood, it can be bitterly frustrating. Upon reflection, we can appreciate that when God the Father speaks eternally from his own depths, his Word is perfect, complete, and utterly expressive of himself. This is why the name Word is applied to the Second Person of the Trinity, that is, to God the Son. The Son, who became man, our Lord Jesus Christ, is the perfect image and manifestation of the Father. Christ, the Eternal Son, is the image of the invisible God (Col 1:15, cf. 2 Cor 4:4), who reflects the glory of God and bears the very stamp of his nature (Heb 1:3). This is why, when the apostle St. Philip asked Jesus to reveal God the Father, Christ replied, Have I been with you so long, and yet you do not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how can you say, Show us the Father? (Jn 14:9). Besides revealing the Father to us (that is, by revealing that the God of Israel is a Father, and not just a solitary person), Jesus also made known to us the Third Person of the Holy Trinity, namely the Holy Spirit. This name, Holy Spirit, itself is not especially revealing, since both the Father and the Son are certainly holy and spiritual. Nevertheless, it is fitting that this Person s name be, so to speak, inconspicuous for the Third Person of the Trinity does not draw attention to himself; rather he is the gift given to make God s Word known. As the Catechism puts it, 3 Now God s Spirit, who reveals God, makes known to us Christ, his Word, his living Utterance, but the Spirit does not speak of himself. The Spirit who has spoken through the prophets makes us hear the Father s Word, but we do not hear the Spirit himself. We know him only in the movement by which he reveals the Word to us and disposes us to welcome him in faith. The Spirit of truth who unveils Christ to us will not speak on his own {Jn 16:13}. Such properly divine self-effacement explains why the world cannot receive [him], because it neither sees him nor knows him, while those who believe in Christ know the Spirit because he dwells with them {Jn 14:17}. 5 In Scripture, we learn that it is the Holy Spirit who brought about the conception of Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary (cf. Mt 1:20, Lk 1:35). So too, it is the Spirit who is sent to make Christ present to us and to incorporate us into Christ s living body, the Church. Only by the active power of the Holy Spirit can we believe, pray, and enter into the communion of the Trinity. As St. Basil the Great said, Through the Holy Spirit we are restored to paradise, led back to the Kingdom of heaven, and adopted as children, given confidence to call God Father and to share in Christ s grace, called children of light and given a share in eternal glory. 6 Jesus Christ did not completely reveal the Holy Spirit to us until the day of Pentecost, when after his death and resurrection he bestowed the Spirit on the apostles gathered in prayer with the Virgin Mary (see Acts 1:14 2:4). According to Christ s promise, it is the Holy Spirit, sent to us by the Father because of Christ, who confirms the Church in her knowledge of the truth (cf. Jn 14:16 17, 25 26) and who enriches us with every spiritual gift (cf. Gal 5:22 23, Is 11:1 2). God is love and love is his first gift, containing all others. God s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us. 7 Because this divine love is a gift, and not something we can acquire on our own, we confess our need to receive it from Almighty God. Indeed, the good news of the Gospel is that God himself wants to bestow the Spirit on us, and to bring us into the everlasting communion of his own divine life. All that the Eternal Son enjoys by nature the perfection of life and love in communion with the Father we are called to enjoy by grace. It is for this that Christ came, died, rose, and bestowed the Spirit. One can hardly overemphasize the fact that Christianity alone, of all major religions and philosophies, claims that God became man so that man might share in the life of God. Because of Christ, Christianity promises permanent, personal, face to face communion with the Triune God. Even the great monotheistic faiths of Judaism and Islam do not promise such full personal communion with God and much less the Eastern religions of Buddhism and Hinduism. Thus while Christians acknowledge that the saving power of God may extend to those who are ignorant of Christ, we must affirm that it is through Christ alone that the gift of salvation is won and bestowed. There is, as Scripture says, no other name by which we are to be saved (cf.acts 4:12);and as no other religion claims to offer such a salvation, it should not be surprising that Christians recognize Jesus as the only savior. There is only one salvific economy of the One and Triune God, realized in the mystery of the incarnation, death, and resurrection of the Son of God, actualized with the cooperation of the Holy Spirit, and extended in its salvific value to all humanity and to the entire universe: No one, therefore, can enter into communion with God except through Christ, by the working of the Holy Spirit. 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4 (Continued from Page 3) While there may be many religious teachers in the world, and many ideas about the purpose of religion, those who believe that man is made for eternal, personal communion with God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) confess that only God himself can give us this gift. To say this is not to prejudge those who have not received the Gospel, or to deny that the power of Christ is at work throughout the whole family of man, and indeed the whole cosmos. Our burning concern, rather, is to confess that Jesus is indeed the only Lord and Savior. He is not one more religious leader among many, nor is the Catholic faith one more religion. To admit Christ at all is to admit him on his own terms, as uniquely the way, the truth and the life (Jn 14:6). PART II: HOW DO WE KNOW ABOUT CHRIST? Problem vs. Mystery In thinking about Jesus Christ, it is critical that we appreciate the difference between a mystery and a problem. Problems are difficulties to be solved; mysteries are truths to be embraced in loving contemplation. A problem describes an unresolved situation which can be resolved by further investigation. Problems remain unsolved because of their complexity, not because they are intrinsically unsolvable. They could be solved if we had the time, intelligence and sufficient information. For instance, if your car or computer does not start or function properly, this is a problem to be solved not a mystery to be contemplated! Even if the best technicians cannot offer a satisfactory remedy, what we face is an unsolved problem. Mysteries, on the other hand, cannot be and are not waiting to be solved. 9 They exceed human powers of discovery and description, and are not subject to experimentation or to man s empirical scrutiny. Because the coming of the Son of God as man is a mystery, the Church is not waiting for a brilliant theologian to come along and explain it. This mystery, like the mystery of the Holy Trinity, is something we can contemplate and appreciate, but it is not a matter that we can account for in terms of all its causes and effects. Unlike internal combustion engines and various physical phenomena, mysteries do not yield to disassembly, demonstration, or mathematical description. The reason mysteries defy rational comprehension is not that they are illogical or self-contradictory. Rather, mysteries are obscure to us because our minds are limited by nature (and by the darkness and confusion introduced by sin). In itself a mystery of faith is simply too vast and too bright to be taken in by our limited mental vision. As St. Thomas Aquinas put it, when we look at God s mysteries we are like night-owls seeing the sun our sight fails not because of darkness, but because the light is more than we can take in. That Christian teachings about Christ are mysterious in this sense should come as no surprise. Indeed, it would be rather suspicious if one claimed to have demonstrations and positive proofs for the inner life and plans of Almighty God. To know that God exists is, for human reason, possible to discover; but to know God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit, or that Jesus Christ is the Eternal Son and our Savior, is something we can only learn from God himself. Witnesses to Christ: Scripture, Tradition and the Church Our knowledge about Christ comes neither from experiments nor from projects in historical biography. Instead, we know about Christ from witnesses. After the Holy Spirit himself, the primary witness to Christ is his bride, the Catholic Church. Our skeptical culture is very uncomfortable relying on the testimony of witnesses at least, when we realize that we are doing so. Too often this skepticism leads to a deeply irrational demand for proof. Underlying this demand is a hidden assumption that what cannot be proven must not be true. But this assumption itself is false. We regularly and readily believe doctors, scientists, news reporters, and experts of all kinds. Indeed, were we to suspend our trust completely, we would be paralyzed. Can we trust our own eyes? Can we trust that our breakfast has not been poisoned? Can we trust that we are not asleep and dreaming all the time? One can enter into an endless game of doubting but this fruitless game does not give the doubter any advantage in finding the truth or learning wisdom. The necessity of trust is most clear when we consider the possibility of a revelation coming from Almighty God. When God reveals himself, we ought to expect this revelation to exceed our capacity for proof and demonstration. Thus our natural position, relative to God, calls for some measure of trust if he reveals, we must be willing to believe him. The visible witness attesting to the truth about Jesus Christ is his Church. It is the Church that proclaims Christ in the world, the Church that is the custodian and interpreter of the Scriptures, the Church that hands on teaching and authority from Christ s Apostles, the Church that is guided in truth and animated by the Holy Spirit, the Church that dwells in constant union with the risen Christ through grace and the Sacraments. The Church Christ Founded It is simply impossible to talk about Jesus and his revelation to us without discussing the Church he founded and the apostles he commissioned. What we know about Jesus, the way we pray and celebrate his Eucharist, indeed all the truths of the Christian religion, come to us through Scripture and Tradition, safeguarded by the bishops of the church, who are the successors of the twelve apostles Jesus himself chose to herald and defend the true faith. Jesus makes it clear in the Bible that he called twelve apostles and commissioned them to act in his name (cf. Mt 10:2, Mk 6:7, Lk 9:1, Acts 5:12, etc.). They were to baptize, heal, forgive sins and cast out demons. Jesus has mysteriously given mere men a share in his own ministry, even as God gave Adam and Eve a share in His own creative power to bring forth new life. The teachings of Christ are preserved in Scripture and Tradition, and faithfully passed on through the Church s preaching. Scripture a word which simply means writings is the Bible: the Old and New Testaments. The Church reveres the Bible because it is inspired by the Holy Spirit. In other words, God is the primary author of Scripture. 10 Tradition refers to the living practice of the faith, and in a sense includes the venerated Scriptures, especially in their liturgical context (i.e., the Bible as it is read and proclaimed in divine worship). Tradition is embodied in the prayers and creeds of the Church, in the teachings of the Pope and bishops (especially in local and ecumenical councils, but also in ordinary preaching and teaching), in the wisdom of the saints, and in varying degrees in the customs and observances that make up Catholic life. Sometimes we must distinguish between simple tradition and Sacred Tradition (that is, the heritage of truth passed down from generation to generation), but in general it suffices to recognize that God has chosen to communicate the truths of revelation to us through the community of faith, the Church, as she teaches and lives through the centuries. To speak of Tradition makes some non-catholic Christians uneasy, since accepting tradition means trusting God to work (Continued on Page 5) 4

5 (Continued from Page 4) through his Church and through teachers who are not all saints. Nevertheless, it is unreasonable and unrealistic to suppose that Christian revelation is handed on by the Bible alone (cf. Jn 21:25). After all, the Bible itself was not compiled except by the Church, and the New Testament was not written until the Church was already alive and teaching. After Christ ascended into heaven, it was about twenty years before St. Paul s first letter was written, and at least thirty years before the first Gospel was completed. It took some seventy years before all of the books of the New Testament were composed. In the first century, the Mass was celebrated, Jesus was worshiped, the sick were healed and demons were cast out the Acts of the Apostles records this early life of the Church. Still, it was another two hundred years before all the books of the Bible were gathered into one definitive form. And it was the Catholic Church, her Pope and bishops, who guided by the Holy Spirit, judged which writings were inspired by God and which were not. The New Testament itself attests to the importance of Sacred Tradition St. Paul, clearly, does not imagine that all Christian doctrine is written out in the Bible. Thus he says, I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I have delivered them to you (1 Cor 11:2), and again, brethren, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter (2 Thes 2:15). Footnotes: 4 Cf.St.Augustine, On the Trinity I. III.5. In this booklet, we cannot offer a thorough overview of the doctrine of the Trinity a short summary of this teaching is needed, however, to understand who Christ is. 5 Catechism of the Catholic Church, n St. Basil, On the Holy Spirit Cf. Catechism of the Catholic Church,n Catechism of the Catholic Church, n Cf. 1 Jn 4:, 16; Rom 5:5. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Declaration Dominus Iesus, On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church,n. 12 (cf. Pope John Paul II, Encyclical Letter Redemptoris missio nn. 2 29). 9 Here we are speaking of divine mysteries, i.e., things we understand thanks to God s sharing his own knowledge with us through revelation. By mystery, then, we do not mean a puzzle. 10 God is said to be the primary author of Scripture, and Matthew, Mark, Luke and John said to be the (secondary) instrumental causes of Scripture in the same way that I am said to be the primary author and a pen the instrumental cause when I write a letter. Matthew, Mark, Luke and John did not fall into a trance and write ignorantly. But God is so great that He can use free rational agents with their own personal limitations as instruments for his own message. Next Month - Christ: Lord and Savior- Part 3 The Great Entrance By Archpriest David M. Petras, S.E.O.D. The Cherubicon is a hymn sung during the bringing of the gifts of bread and wine to the Holy Table for the prayer of offering. As such, it is a fulfillment of the Gospel command, when Jesus took bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to his disciples. The Great Entrance is the taking of the bread, even though not every ceremony connected with it is from apostolic times. During the chanting of the Cherubic Hymn, the priest with the other ministers says the Prayer of the Cherubic Hymn, with hands raised as a sign of openness to God. As he does this, the deacon censes the Holy Table (altar) from the four sides, and the gifts on the table of preparation. The incensation of the icon screen and people were added later. When the priest finishes the Prayer of the Cherubicon, both the priests and the deacons say the Cherubic Hymn privately three 5 time, since because of their actions at this time, they cannot sing with the people. The priests, deacons and other servers go to the table of preparation where the gifts have been prepared. On the way the priest says, O God, be merciful to me, a sinner. There are, in fact, many points in the Liturgy where the priest proclaims his unworthiness, because, as St. John Chrysostom said many times, the celebration of the Liturgy is beyond human indeed, even angelic powers. What is impossible to men, though, is possible to God. The priest prays and acts only in the power of the Holy Spirit. At the table of preparation, the priest censes the gifts. At this point, the deacon says, Lift up, Father, and the priest replies, Lift up your hands to the holy gifts and bless the Lord. This is a quotation from Psalm 133 (Hebrew 134): 2, but the Greek itself is indeterminate, saying literally, lift up your hands to the holies. It is most often interpreted as holy place, but this shows the difficulty of translation, for we are dealing here with something that was left vague in the original. Some translations say holy gifts, since the priest says this as he reaches out to take the gifts to the Holy Table, but this is an interpretation. The priest gives the deacon the diskos and aer, which is the large veil that covers the gifts. The celebrant takes the chalice and the concelebrants other holy object. The original practice was that the deacons brought all the gifts to the altar, but eventually the priest began to take part in this procession. To this very day, however, when a Bishop celebrates, he waits at the Holy Doors to receive the gifts from the priests and deacons. As the entrance is made, certain commemorations are said aloud, for the church and civil authorities, for the founders and benefactors of the local church and for all the Christians present. When he reaches the Holy Table, the priest places the chalice there and takes the diskos from the deacon. He removes the small veils, takes the censer, censes the aer and replaces it over the gifts. As he does this, he says the Troparion of Good Friday, The noble Joseph took down your most pure body from the cross. He wrapped it in a clean shroud and with fragrant spices laid it in burial in a tomb. For some ancient liturgical commentators, each moment of the Liturgy was interpreted to correspond to a moment in our Lord s life. These interpretations were meant to be an aid to piety, but they must be understood correctly. The Liturgy is not simply a remembrance of what happened in history, but it is the presence of God in our lives now, as well as a proclamation of the future coming of our Lord. The Liturgy, then, looks to both the past and the future. Most of the historical interpretations are not explicitly mentioned in the Liturgy, but the troparion at this point affirms one of the most ancient allegories the Great Entrance as the burial procession of our Lord. This interpretation is already found in Theodore of Mopsuestia at the end of the fourth century, and so the Troparion from Good Friday about the burial of Jesus is said. When the gifts have been covered again by the aer, the priest censes the gifts as he says the end of Psalm 50, In your goodness show favor to Zion, rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The deacon had said Psalm 50 during his incensation. Very last words reveal the meaning of this psalm, then you will be offered young bulls on your altar. The Christian altar fulfills the sacrifices of the Old Law. There are no longer animal sacrifices, but the offering is now bread and wine which are to become the body and blood of Christ. There is then a dialogue between the priest and the deacon. 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6 (Continued from Page 5) celebrants. The celebrant first asked for a remembrance in prayer, and the con-celebrants answered, May the Lord God remember your priesthood in his kingdom. Then the celebrant said, Pray for me, my fellow ministers, and they replied in the words of the angel Gabriel to Mary, The Holy Spirit shall come upon you, and the power of the Most High shall overshadow you, (Luke 1:35). The celebrant answers with an ancient formula found in the Liturgy, and adapted from Romans :26, May the Spirit himself minister with us all the days of our lives. For many centuries the nature of this dialogue has been forgotten, and was relegated to the priest and deacon. However, from its meaning, it is a dialogue between the celebrant and concelebrants. This has been restored as such in the Archieraticon (Bishop s Liturgicon) of It is a parallel to the Roman rite invitation, when the priest asks, after the gifts are brought forward, Pray, brothers and sisters, that my sacrifice and yours be acceptable... We see here repeated again the theology of the Liturgy that God is acting in and through our words and actions. Our offering of bread and wine becomes the Body and Blood of Christ, making us holy through deification, by the power of the Holy Spirit. Just as the angel announced to Mary that she would become the mother of God, so, too, the gifts that enter accompanied by the invisible ranks of angels bring us into union with God. n An Abortionist s Nightmare Fr. Frank Pavone National Director, Priests for Life The Queen and King from our Father-Daughter Dance on September 14, 2007 I will try to get more pictures up on the web site in the next couple of weeks 6 Dr. McArthur Hill used to kill babies for a living. Now he has repented. At a conference of former abortionists, he shared the nightmares he had: In my nightmares I would deliver a healthy newborn baby and I would take that healthy newborn baby and I would hold it up, and I would face a jury of faceless people and ask them to tell me what to do with this baby. They would go thumbs-up or thumbs-down and if they made a thumbsdown indication then I was to drop the baby into a bucket of water which was present. I never did reach the point of dropping the baby into the bucket because I d always wake up at that point. But it was clear to me then that there was something going on in my mind, subconsciously. I have helped abortionists make the transition from killing babies to repentance, and can attest that Dr. Hill s experience is not uncommon. In fact, his nightmare reveals some common aspects of the suffering of abortionists. Notice, first of all, that Dr. Hill has in his hands a healthy newborn baby. Abortions are done on healthy unborn babies, but in this nightmare, the doctor s conscience is reminding him that a baby is a baby, and that the lies of abortion propagandists who try to make the public think that abortion is only done for health reasons are exactly that - lies. More significant still is the fact that the abortionist is holding the baby up in front of a group of people. What happened to the private, personal nature of abortion? Abortionists know better. It s a public industry, a public battle, and like it or not, the world has its eyes on them. They are committing that wrong which humanity itself, in the judgment of history, knows to be the same wrong that constitutes genocide and holocausts. Yes, this private act is really as public as can be. The abortion propagandists try to paint this issue as a woman s choice and hers alone. But the abortionist s nightmare tells us a different story. The mother is absent. It is society, represented by a jury of his peers, that is making the choice. This represents both the abortionist s resentment as well as his attempt to evade responsibility. It s not that I favor killing babies, many abortionists will say. It s that either I provide this service or someone else will do so, in a less professional way. Society has made this choice available, which is a good thing, but somebody has to carry it out. Finally, the jury is faceless. Of course it is. Nobody wants to claim responsibility for legal abortion. Legislators blame the courts; judges blame precedent; others blame the law of the land. It s time for the abortionists nightmare to wake us all up! Now is the time for us to put our own face on this issue, and claim responsibility to break through the faceless crowd and declare, The killing stops here! I will no longer be silent!

7 REPORT FROM OUR INSUR ANCE AGENT If you are like me, you derive great joy from your children. It s a great feeling when a teacher, coach or fellow parent compliments you on your child. We all know that raising children these days is no easy task, especially when the values we re trying to instill in them concern for others, accepting responsibility for their actions, saving money rather than spending it seem to run counter to what society is trying to teach them. Yet these are exactly the values that tend to draw compliments from teachers, coaches and fellow parents. We also know that the best way to teach is by example. If you carry enough life insurance to protect your family - and if you share with those of your children old enough to understand why that s important, you re exhibiting and imparting many of the values you hope your children will absorb. You ll show them by example that you love them and are concerned about their welfare. You ll show them that you take your responsibility to provide for your family seriously, and that you want to make sure that they re provided for even if you re not around. And you ll show them that investing money in your life insurance protection is more important than the new set of golf clubs you might want, the newest and best home theater system you ve had your eye on, or whatever else you might be sacrificing to pay the premiums. Sure, they ll probably roll their eyes at you as you re explaining this, and they ll certainly moan and groan if they can t get the newest CD, video game or piece of clothing. But they learn from what you do just like they learn from what you don t do. What lessons do you want to teach them? I want to meet with you to review your existing coverage. Based upon that review, and on the comprehensive needs analysis that I ll perform, free of charge, we ll be able to put a plan in place that will meet your needs, goals and budget. Give me a call. Call George Chandler at for his assistance in setting up a plan that will protect your wife and family. ( - georgepchandler3@ aol.com) n Please become a newsletter sponsor to help offset the cost of this newsletter. The cost of sponsorship is as follows: Sponsors name displayed for 6 months - $ 6.00 Sponsors name displayed for 1 year - $12.00 Business card section for one year - $25.00 Contact: Michael P. Krochmalni at or by at council9236@mac.com CONGRATULATIONS! KNIGHT of the MONTH for September Michael MacMenamin FAMILY of the MONTH for September Family of Michael Krochmalni SPONSORS CORNER William Busk George & Michele Fencik Edgar and Josie Johnson Nancy & Robert Robitaille Michael & Karen MacMenamin Gene & Shirley Hawk Thomas & Gerri Prebee Joe & Helen Obuch Donald & Bobbie Abate Victor J. Prezioso Ralph & Jeanne Zens Edward Fitzgerald Thomas Bradwell Peter Shine Jane & Jeffrey Jones John Robertson Alan Spears Thomas Garrett Janet & Vincent Samosky 7

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