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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) Feast of the Holy Family January 12, 2014 Traditional Latin Masses in the Archdiocese of San Francisco Star of the Sea Church St. Monica Parish Mater Dolorosa (starting 1/19/14 ) 4420 Geary Blvd., San Francisco th Ave., San Francisco Willow Ave., San Francisco (415) ext.16 (415) (650) Sunday: 11 a.m. & Mon - Fri: 7:30 a.m. Monday - Saturday: 12:00 p.m. Sunday: 5PM & Mon-Fri: 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. Beautiful Prayer: Transforming Today s Culture Through The Liturgy A Talk by David Clayton - Monday, January 13, 2014 (7:00 PM) St. Mary Magdalen Parish, 2005 Berryman Ave., Berkeley, CA David Clayton is an internationally known artist, teacher, writer, and broadcaster, who is on the faculty at Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, Merrimack, NH. He writes for his weekly blog and is the sacred-art writer for the highly influential and widely read New Liturgical Movement website ( 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 Sancta Trinitas, Unus Deus: The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco will have a table at the Walk for Life Info Faire at the Civic Center Plaza. We would like to see the TLM Communities join forces and possibly walking together with their banners. Help is needed with making copies of TLM literature, donating food/drinks and manning the Info Faire table. Each TLM Community are asked to bring brochures, business cards or other material fit for the occasion to promote the sanctity of life and of your TLM community. For more information please contact us TLMofSF@gmail.com or call Jay Balza ( ) 1 P age

2 Letter from the Assistant Chaplain: ** Fr. Mark Mazza s Chaplain columns can be accessed at our website (sanctatrinitasunusdeus.com)** Today the Church celebrates on the traditional calendar the feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. It is the feast of the only truly functional family in human history, the only family for whom Love was always the rule of the house. It is the feast of God s Family, to which we all belong as members of Jesus Christ. It is deeply important for each one of us to realize that we are truly members of the Holy Family. We live in a time in history when family life is particularly damaged by sin and selfishness and dysfunction of all kinds. So many of us come from broken homes or from family situations marked by abuse or addiction or neglect. So many of us bear within us the wounds and scars of family disorder. The darkness of the state of family life today makes ever more sweet the truth that we all belong to the Holy Family. In our formation in the Holy Family, with St. Joseph as our father and Blessed Mary as our Mother, we have Jesus as our Brother and Lord. We live in Him and receive in Him the Love of God manifest in the holy charity of this home in Nazareth. Here we find all the love and security and trust we need in order to bring divine love into our own family situations, whatever they may be. One of the great errors of our time is that the health of a family or of a marriage depends on the love of the family members or the spouses. When this love wanes or is found wanting, we then give up on our families or our marriages and turn in on ourselves in isolation or divorce. This, of course, is all backwards. The health of our families depends on God s love, which we receive from our relationship with Him. Having received the ability to love from God Himself, we then bring that divine love into our families and marriages. Therefore, it is possible for one to be a most excellent husband or wife or family member in a highly dysfunctional family situation. For the quality of our family life is measured in our own love for the other members of the family. The family is a school of love and love is its very soul. This is why the Holy Family is so excellent and functional. This is why it s so good for us to be members of the Holy Family. We are taught by Jesus, Mary, and Joseph how to receive love from God and how to give that love to the other members of our family. The real threat to love in family life is selfishness. In the life of the Holy Family, there was never any selfishness. Selfishness is a poison for family life, a sure recipe for dysfunction and unhappiness. All the members of a family must guard against all forms of selfishness in their own hearts and in the lives of their families. Fathers of families, especially, as the protectors must imitate St. Joseph in protecting their families from every type of selfishness. Joy and peace come to family life only through a love that is free from selfishness. This is expressed most deeply and profoundly in the conjugal love between husband and wife. When selfishness enters into that conjugal love through the use of contraception, then the poison of selfishness has infected the most vulnerable heart of family life. Generosity and self-giving are the rule of married love and family life and only in living them, with the help of God, will married couples find true joy. So we rejoice today in the feast of our Family. We thank God for giving us such a wonderful environment in which to feel loved, in which to feel that we belong, that we are secure, that we are accepted and cherished. Each person belongs to Jesus, Mary, and Joseph. We pray today that all we feel the warm embrace of Nazareth. Fr. Joseph Previtali Assistant Chaplain Latin Class in San Francisco (Introductory Latin) Monday evenings, 7:00 9:30 pm in the Monsignor Bowe Room at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, 1111 Gough Street, San Francisco, from February 10 th to June 2 nd, For details, please contact Stephen Cordova: cordovensis@gmail.com Upcoming Sundays and Feast Days for January and February 2014: Jan. 12 Holy Family Jan. 13 Baptism of our Lord Jesus Christ Jan. 18 Chair of St. Peter Jan. 19 2nd Sunday after Epiphany Jan. 25 Conversion of St. Paul Jan. 26 3rd Sunday after Epiphany Feb. 2 Candlemas (High Mass, Blessing of candles) Feb. 3 St. Blaise (Blessing of the Throat) 2 P age

3 The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest is happy to announce two Spring Pilgrimages: From March 31 to April 7, 2014, Canon Benoit Jayr will lead a group to Mexico and visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the Shrine of Mexican Martyr Blessed Miguel Pro, and travel in the Footsteps of the Cristeros. Holy Mass in the EF/TLM and devotions will be offered each day. For inquiries, please ststanislaus@institute-christ-king.org From April 23 - May 2, 2014, Canon Jean Marie Moreau will lead a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Spend three nights on the Sea of Galilee, one night in Jericho & four nights in Jerusalem. Cost from Newark, NJ is $3795. Sign up by Jan. 10th to save $200. For more details & a brochure, call or go to Below are few photos from the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Jesus (January 5, 2014) at Holy Rosary Chapel in San Rafael, CA; Introduction of the new Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship & Epiphany Vespers with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone and Fr. Samuel Weber, OSB (January 5, 2014) at St. Sebastian Church in Greenbrae, CA; and the International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Tour at Star of the Sea, San Francisco, CA (more pictures have been posted in our website Most Holy Name of Jesus Holy Rosary Chapel, San Rafael, CA 3 P age

4 Introduction of the new Benedict XVI Institute for Sacred Music and Divine Worship & Epiphany Vespers International Pilgrim Virgin Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Tour at Star of the Sea, San Francisco, CA 4 P age

5 Feature of the Week: Fr. Peter Carota Like Britain's Fr. Thwaites, he will have a profound influence on the Catholic world Source: Fr. Peter was a late-vocation, having been a hugely successful and affluent real estate agent in California, before forsaking his glittering career to found and run a soup kitchen. When he was serving poor people, they mistook Fr. Peter for being a priest, and so he followed his childhood dream of pursuing a vocation. As a child, he would role-play as a priest. Ordained a priest in May 1997, ten years later he started offering the Extraordinary Form and has this to say, Five years ago, the Pope encouraged saying the Latin Mass again. Since saying it these last five years, I have truly understood my priesthood in a totally deeper way as being sacrificial. Above all, I love the reverence and sacredness of this Mass. Jesus is God and truly present in Holy Communion. Therefore we should kneel and receive Him with all reverence that God deserves. As of November 2012, he started a sabbatical, and took leave from his Californian parish, with the aim of concentrating his priesthood on making the riches of the Tridentine Mass available by doing research on how he may found a new religious order and start a TV station that broadcasts the Latin Mass every day. Currently, he is travelling around America and staying with various monasteries that have the Tridentine Mass at the heart of their liturgical life, as well as visiting Latin Mass communities. Just last weekend, he was travelling around Detroit, and did the rounds of many historic churches, that have been hosted/or are in the practice of hosting regular Tridentine Masses, including, St Albertus, St Joseph and Holy Family. He chronicles his travails, trips and the people he meets on his blog, which above anything else is putting modern-day American Catholicism in perspective. Fr Peter writes from the heart, has a child-like joy in the presence of good developments, and aches with sorrow when he is confronted with unsavory news. He rejoices when he hears the piercing wail of a young baby during Mass and outdoes himself to convince two Hindu doctors not to perform abortions, when they are his traveling companions on a Greyhound bus. Fr Peter has a captivating frankness and gives his gut instincts in a way that could earn him foes (liberal Catholics will grind their teeth down reading 'the biological solution') but will also win friends because he is an unusual mix of a Traddie priest who adores the beautiful fancy trappings of all things Tridentine, but is also down-to-earth, unpretentious and not afraid of getting his hands grubby (the soup kitchen that he founded is still going strong thirty years later). The experience he gained as a successful business man has never left him. In his previous post, the parish bank account was $240,000 when he stared, and when he left, it was $1,400,000. But also, his blog is littered with examples of the right sales approach to bring new people into the church and many times he goes above and beyond the call of duty to bring in converts in the same way an entrepreneur might overcome all obstacles to get new customers. One charming anecdote concerns a Chinese lady who he met at the back of a church. She was an atheist visiting the premises, but couldn t speak much English, so Fr Peter found someone from the congregation who could talk to her in Mandarin. Also, he has a concern with how the church is perceived by people on the outside, while he bemoans the Fox News story about the monsignor who became the slave of drugs, and ponders how this sad episode reflects on both modern-day America and the Church. British Catholics will be quick to note that there are comparisons between the late (and greatly missed) Fr. Hugh Thwaites and Fr. Peter. On a superficial level, there is that disarming smile and that thinness that comes from working non-stop. Obviously, there is the love of the Tridentine Mass. But more specifically, there is that spirit of evangelize-at-all-costs. The interaction between Fr. Peter and people he meets - would remind you of Fr. Thwaites. Finding a Mandarin-speaker so that they can chat with a Chinese atheist seems exactly the sort of thing that Fr. Thwaites would have done - and did do. Just like Fr. Thwaites wrote poetry, made recordings and published clever books on the faith, Fr. Peter is writing a blog and looking into founding a Catholic TV station. There are signs that Fr. Peter could be another St Philip Neri (who founded the Oratorians) or even do for Tridentine Mass what EWTN foundress Mother Angelica did for Eucharistic Adoration. Not that he is without resources or supplies, for one thing he has a large stash of exquisite vestments that will no doubt come in handy when he opens the doors of a new religious order. 5 P age

6 Mass Propers for the Feast of the Holy Family: January 12, 2014 Introit Prov 23:24-25 The father of the Just will exult with glee; let Your father and mother have joy; let her who bore You exult. Ps 83:2-3 How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord of Hosts! My soul yearns and pines for the courts of the Lord. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Collect O Lord Jesus Christ, You Who while subject to Mary and Joseph, hallowed family life with virtues beyond description, grant us by their combined intercession, that, having been taught by the example of the Holy Family, we may attain unto their everlasting companionship. Epistle Col 3:12-17 Brethren: Put on, as God s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, patience. Bear with one another and forgive one another, if anyone has a grievance against any other; even as the Lord has forgiven you, so also do you forgive. But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection. And may the peace of Christ reign in your hearts; unto that peace, indeed, you were called in one body. Show yourselves thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom teach and admonish one another by psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing in your hearts to God by His grace. Whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God the Father through Jesus Christ our Lord. Gradual Ps 26:4 One thing I ask of the Lord; this I seek: to dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. V. Ps 83:5 Happy they who dwell in Your house. O Lord! continually they praise You. Alleluia, alleluia. Isa 45:15 V. Truly You are a hidden God, the God of Israel, the Savior. Alleluia. Gospel Luke 2:42-52 When Jesus was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according to the custom of the feast. And after they had fulfilled the days, when they were returning, the Boy Jesus remained in Jerusalem, and His parents did not know it. But thinking that He was in the caravan, they had come a day s journey before it occurred to them to look for Him among their relatives and acquaintances. And not finding Him, they returned to Jerusalem in search of Him. And it came to pass after three days, that they found Him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. And all who were listening to Him were amazed at His understanding and His answers. And when they saw Him, they were astonished. And His Mother said to Him, Son, why have You done so to us? Behold, in sorrow Your father and I have been seeking You. And He said to them, How is it that you sought Me? Did you not know that I must be about My Father s business? And they did not understand the word that He spoke to them. And He went down with them and came to Nazareth, and was subject to them; and His Mother kept all these things carefully in her heart. And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace before God and men. Offertory Luke 2:22 The parents of Jesus took Him up to Jerusalem, to present Him to the Lord Secret In appeasement, O Lord, we offer You this sacrifice, humbly praying that through the intercession of the virgin Mother of God, and that of St. Joseph, You will establish our households in Your peace and grace. Communion Luke 2:51 Jesus went down with them, and came to Nazareth and was subject to them. Post Communion Grant, Lord Jesus, that those whom You refresh with the heavenly sacrament may ever imitate the example of Your Holy Family, so that at the hour of our death, with the glorious Virgin Mary and St. Joseph welcoming us, we may be found worthy to be received into Your everlasting home. 6 P age