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1 The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco TLM Society Website: TLM Society The Traditional Latin Mass Society is an association of Roman Catholic faithful dedicated to the preservation of the Ancient form of the Roman Rite or the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, as a legitimate use of Holy Mother Church s Great Liturgical Patrimony. The Society includes lay faithful drawn from every age, group and walks of life as well as clergy and religious members who continue to adhere with great love and affection to the earlier liturgical forms. (Pope Benedict XVI, Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum of 2007) Twenty Sixth Sunday After Pentecost November 17, 2013 Traditional Latin Masses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Star of the Sea Church St. Monica Parish 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco Geary Blvd & 23rd Ave., San Francisco (415) ext.16 (415) Sunday: 11 a.m. & Monday - Friday: 7:30 a.m. Monday - Saturday: 12:00 p.m. Immaculate Conception Chapel Most Holy Rosary Chapel St. Francis of Assisi 3255 Folsom St., San Francisco One Vincent Dr., San Rafael Bay Rd. East Palo Alto (415) (415) (650) Sunday: 5:00 p.m. Sunday: 12:15 p.m. First Friday: 6 p.m. Mass Schedule at Star of the Sea for November & December Nov-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 26th Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Mark Mazza 24-Nov-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Last Sunday after Pentecost Fr. Mark Mazza 1-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 1 st Sunday of Advent Fr. Mark Mazza 6-Dec-13 Friday 6:30 PM First Friday (St. Nicholas) Fr. Mark Mazza 8-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 2 nd Sunday of Advent / Immaculate Conception Fr. Anselm Ramelow 15-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 3 rd Sunday of Advent Fr. Mark Mazza 17-Dec-13 Tuesday 6:30 PM O Mass O Sapienta Fr. Anselm Ramelow 18-Dec-13 Wednesday 6:30 PM O Mass O Adonai (Rorate Mass) Fr. Anselm Ramelow 19-Dec-13 Thursday 6:30 PM O Mass O Radix Jesse Canon Olivier Meney 20-Dec-13 Friday 6:30 PM O Mass O Clavis David Fr. Mark Mazza 21-Dec-13 Saturday 10:00 AM O Mass O Oriens Fr. Mark Mazza 22-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM 4 th Sunday of Advent O Rex Gentium Fr. Mark Mazza 23-Dec-13 Monday 6:30 PM O Mass O Emmanuel Fr. Mark Mazza 24-Dec-13 Tuesday 11:00 PM Nativity of Our Lord Midnight Mass (*Holy Day) Fr. Mark Mazza 25-Dec-13 Wednesday 11:00 AM Nativity of Our Lord (*Holy Day) Fr. Mark Mazza 29-Dec-13 Sunday 11:00 AM Sunday Octave of Christmas Fr. Mark Mazza 1 P age

2 Mass Intention Requests When the TLM Society arranges special Masses with the approval of the pastor/chaplain, i.e. First Fridays, Holydays and other special days, Mass intentions may be requested. A stipend of $10.00 per Mass. Visit the parish office Monday-Thursday between 9am-4pm. If you have questions please us TLMofSF@gmail.com Assistant Chaplain s Corner Mystic Monk Coffee Sale this Sunday! Looking for a good Christmas gift? After the 11 AM Mass this Sunday (Nov. 17, 2013), everyone is invited to come down to the Star of the Sea school auditorium where the Mystic Monk Coffee will be on sale! Some of the coffee blend available for sale will include: Christmas Blend ($15), Jingle Bell Java ($12), Vespers Decaf Ground ($12) and many more! Cash payment only. As we come to the end of our liturgical year, the Church places before us the feasts of St. Albert the Great (November 15) and the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (November 21). At first glance, these feasts have little in common. First, we have Albert, nicknamed The Boot because he was said to have walked all of Europe, the great scientist and scholar and bishop, who is the true patron saint of extroverts, as he carried out his peripatetic mode of holiness in the midst of the hustle and bustle of the world. Albert is famous, first and foremost, because he was the teacher of the great St. Thomas Aquinas, forming young Thomas in the philosophy of Aristotle, which was newly available in Latin-speaking Europe. Called the Universal Doctor because he studied everything, the Bishop of Regensburg is also the brightest-shining exemplar of the Scientific Revolution of In his intellectual labors and tireless travel and widespread influence, he is a brilliant example of the fruitfulness of the active life in the Church. The feast of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin is, on the other hand, a feast of the fruitfulness of the contemplative life in the Church. Although Sacred Scripture is silent on the matter, the Church receives the strong oral tradition, enshrined in her Sacred Liturgy, that the Blessed Virgin Mary left her parents and her home as a young woman and solemnly consecrated herself to God as a virgin, living a contemplative life in the shadow of the Temple in Jerusalem. In her is fulfilled the prophecy of the Psalmist: Hearken, O daughter, and see and incline thy ear, and forget thy people and thy father s house (Psalm 44:11). Of this solemn consecration, St. Augustine says: Mary answered the announcing angel: How shall this be done, because I know not man? She would not have said this unless she had already vowed her virginity to God. St. Thomas, the pupil of St. Albert, explains that Mary consecrated her virginity to God with a vow because works of perfection are more praiseworthy when performed in fulfillment of a vow. Thomas goes on to explain that, at first, Our Lady s vow of virginity was conditional upon further confirmation from God, Who commanded the People of Israel to marry and beget children since the worship of God was spread according to carnal origin, until Christ was born of that people. However, he continues, after she was engaged to Joseph and had, after much prayer, discussed the matter with him, having taken a husband, according as the custom of the time required, together with him she took a vow of virginity. Thus was inaugurated the precious tradition of consecrated life in the Church. Albert s activity and Mary s contemplation, while starkly different in the details of daily living, are united by the common quality of the total consecration of all of one s being and powers and efforts to Almighty God. Whether studying the created universe or contemplating its Creator, the Christian soul is called in all things to divine love, to the total gift of himself to God and, for God s sake, to all men. This is the core of sanctity, of which we are especially aware in these sober November days of the dead. As we contemplate the Last Things, we are inspired by Albert s witness in the active life and Our Mother s gift of herself in the contemplative life. Fr. Joseph Previtali Assistant Chaplain We are looking for committed people to help in any way with the Society! Please don t hesitate to contact us: tlmofsf@gmail.com 2 P age

3 MARK YOUR CALENDARS!! Walk for Life West Coast 2014: Join fellow Catholics and Pro- Lifers from all over California and beyond as we stand up for the littlest among us at the 10th Annual Walk for Life West Coast in San Francisco on January 25, The pre-walk rally begins at 12:30PM in San Francisco s Civic Center Plaza, and the Walk for Life, down the city s Market Street, begins at 1:30. Last year s Walk drew 40,000+ people and eleven Catholic bishops and a personal message from then Pope Benedict XVI! For complete information about the Walk, visit or call The TLM Society will be participating in the Walk for Life Info Faire at the Civic Center Plaza on January 25, Fliers and other informational materials on the Traditional Latin Mass will be distributed. Volunteers are needed! Please the Society at tlmofsf@gmail.com or call Jay Balza ( ). Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society: How to enroll souls: please athanasiuscatholic@yahoo.com and submit as follows: "Name, State, Country." If you want to enroll entire families, simply write in the "The Jones family, Ohio, USA". Individual names are preferred. Be greedy -- send in as many as you wish and forward this posting to friends as well. And please follow this formatting strictly. Please consider forwarding this Society to your family and friends, announcing from the pulpit during Holy Mass or listing in your church bulletin. We need to spread the word and relieve more suffering souls. Please pray for the enrolled Souls and the 36 holy priests saying Traditional Masses for the Society: "For all the souls enrolled in the Rorate Caeli Purgatorial Society: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May their souls and the souls of all the Faithful departed rest in peace. Amen." Almighty and ever living God, we ask Thy blessing upon the priests who offer Masses for the Purgatorial Society. Give them a greater awareness of the grace that Thou dost pour out through the Sacraments, and by their devout celebration of the Sacred Mysteries, increase in them a love for Thee. Give strength to Thy priests, O Shepherd of the flock; when they are in doubt, give them the assurance of faith, and in Thy goodness confirm them as heralds of Thy Truth to all who seek to follow in Thy path. We ask this through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal Priest, Who lives and reigns with Thee in the unity with the Holy Ghost, God, for ever and ever. Amen. 3 P age

4 Feature of the Week: Alfons Ma. Cardinal Stickler SDB ( ) Cardinal Stickler was the former "Archivist and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church" and was made a Cardinal in Older Tradition-minded Catholics will remember that in the 1990's, no other Cardinal spoke as forcefully, as bluntly and frequently on behalf of the Traditional Latin Mass and those attached to it, as this little Salesian cardinal and scholar from Austria. The following is a quote from his 1992 speech to the Latin Mass Society of England and Wales. "We have to consider still another idea. Modern Catholics say "Now we have to cut away all the old things. We must be modern." But this modernity is not the modernity of the Church because we have to preserve the whole substance which is our heritage from past generations. So if many of the Bishops ask us "Why do you follow the Old Rite?" We can answer very easily: "The new rite was introduced after the Council as a matter of pastoral care. This means that the Faithful should be animated more and more by the new form of rites to be better in Catholic truth and life. But many good people in the world who still believe in the truths of the Catholic Church are not satisfied about the innovations introduced into the Mass. Can you say then that the pastoral purpose has been fulfilled?" I think, through my experience, that there is more and more dissatisfaction becoming stronger always in all the categories of age, social positions, even in many young people. Further we are told that the truth about the Mass, about the centre of the liturgy has not really changed. But we can ask; have we the same sense, the same reverence we had before - and perhaps still have - when we assist at the Old Roman Rite? Or have we a loss of reverence, of awe of our biggest mystery, our faith in the Holy Mass? In the sacrifice? It was admitted officially when, two years ago, on the Silver Jubilee of the changing of the Rite, authorities in Rome admitted that there was a great loss of awe in the Mass - the most important rite of our worship. This is the experience of all who travel around everywhere. We have lost what really is at the heart of our worshipping in the Holy Sacrifice. Many times we get the impression that it is man being worshipped but not God. We have a Communion meal, but not a Sacrifice. I think that this has proved one of the most important changes in the general attitude to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass..." Source: Archives of the Latin Mass Society of England & Wales via Ecclesia Dei Society of St. Joseph - Una Voce Philippines ( Mary of Nazareth Film Screenings Nov. 18th and 19 th (Monday and Tuesday) 6:30 PM at Cinemark Theater 825 Middlefield Rd., Redwood City, CA. Tickets are $12. For tickets and for more information please call Pauline Books & Media at (650) Online registration: 4 P age

5 November Requiem Masses at Star of the Sea Fr. Joseph Previtali (Nov. 2, 2013) Canon Olivier Meney - Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (Nov. 7, 2013) Fr. Jeffrey Keyes - Missionaries of the Precious Blood (Nov. 8, 2013) 5 P age

6 26 th Sunday after Pentecost: November 17, 2013 Introit Jer 29:11-12; 29:14 The Lord says: I think thoughts of peace, and not of affliction. You shall call upon Me, and I will hear you; and I will bring back your captivity from all places. Ps 84:2 You have favored, O Lord, Your land; You have restored the well-being of Jacob. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost... Collect Grant us, we beseech You, almighty God, ever to think of spiritual things and in every word and work always to do what is well pleasing in Your sight. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Epistle 1 Thess. 1:2-10 Brethren: We give thanks to God always for you all, continually making a remembrance of you in our prayers; being mindful before God our Father of your work of faith, and labor, and charity, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ. We know, brethren, beloved of God, how you were chosen. For our Gospel was not delivered to you in word only, but in power also, and in the Holy Spirit, and in much fullness, as indeed you know what manner of men we have been among you for your sakes. And you became imitators of us and of the Lord, receiving the word in great tribulation, with joy of the Holy Spirit, so that you became a pattern to all the believers in Macedonia and in Achaia, but in every place your faith in God has gone forth, so that we need say nothing further. For they themselves report concerning us how we entered among you, and how you turned to God from idols, to serve the living and true God, and to await from heaven Jesus, His Son, Whom He raised from the dead, Who has delivered us from the wrath to come. Gradual Ps 43:8-9 You saved us, O Lord, from our foes, and those who hated us You put to shame. V. In God we gloried day by day; Your name we praised always. Alleluia, alleluia. Ps 129:1-2 V. Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord; Lord, hear my prayer! Alleluia. Gospel Matt 13:31-35 At that time, Jesus spoke this parable to the crowds: The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took and sowed in his field. This indeed is the smallest of all the seeds; but when it grows up it is larger than any herb and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and dwell in its branches. He told them another parable: The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and buried in three measures of flour, until all of it was leavened. All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without parables he did not speak to them; that what was spoken by the prophet might be fulfilled, I will open My mouth in parables, I will utter things hidden since the foundation of the world. Offertory Ps 129:1-2 Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord: Lord, hear my prayer! Out of the depths I cry to You, O Lord. Secret May this offering, O God, we beseech You, cleanse and renew us, govern and protect us. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Communion Antiphon Mark 11:24 Amen I say to you, all things whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you shall receive, and it shall be done to you. Post Communion Nourished by Your heavenly food, O Lord, we beseech You that we may always strive after those things that give us true life. Through Jesus Christ, thy Son our Lord, Who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. 6 P age