9th Sunday after Pentecost August 10, 2014

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1 The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco TLM Society Website: TLM Society If you would like to post an article or an advertisement in the TLMS bulletin and website please us at 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) 9th Sunday after Pentecost August 10, 2014 Star of the Sea Catholic Parish has begun to have confessions available before the Holy Mass Feast of the Assumption (August 15) is a Holy Day of Obligation. EF Masses around the Bay Area: Five Wounds Church, San Jose 12:15 PM Star of the Sea, San Francisco 6:30 PM (Confession at 6pm) St. Edward's, Newark 5:30 PM (High Mass: Misa Maria Assumpta Est, Palestrina) St. Margaret Mary, Oakland 6:00 PM Donations needed for the upcoming Pontifical Mass at Star of the Sea Catholic Parish. Below are just some items still needed: the metropolitan cross, pontifical gloves, buskins and sandals. We need to raise $ To donate online, visit our website (sanctatrinitasunusdeus.com) 1 P age

2 The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco cordially invites you to the first Pontifical Mass (According to the Missale Romanum of 1962) in San Francisco, California celebrated by His Grace, The Most Reverend Salvatore Cordileone Archbishop of San Francisco Sunday - September 14, :30 p.m. on the Solemn Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross Star of the Sea Roman Catholic Parish 4420 Geary Boulevard San Francisco, California A Special Thanks to Reverend Father Mark Mazza Reverend Father Joseph Illo Reverend Father Patrick Driscoll Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest Golden Gate Boys Choir and Bellringers The Traditional Latin Mass Society of San Francisco For additional information please TLMofSF@gmail.com 2 P age

3 A HIGH MASS 14th Annual Celebration in honor of St. Philomena Virgin and Martyr Five Wounds Portuguese National Church 1375 East Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA Saturday, August 16, 2014 at 7:00PM Celebrant: Rev. Fr. William J. Stout, SJ Confession at 6:45PM by Rev. Fr. Donald W. Morgan High Mass in the Extraordinary Form (Latin Mass) Litany of St. Philomena Candlelight Rosary procession Veneration of Her 1st class relic. Potluck finger foods to follow. The St. Philomena devotees sincerely thank Rev. Fr. Antonio A. Silveira, Pastor and parishioners of the Five Wounds Portuguese National Church. Chaplain s Corner On August 15, the Church celebrates with great joy the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, body and soul, into Heaven. It is such a solemn feast that it is a holy day of obligation (i.e. we are bound to attend Holy Mass, like on a Sunday)! With this, the Church seems to exclaim: "Our Mother has gone to Heaven; we must thank God in solemn worship!" What joy we have in the Assumption of Our Mother! This feast day is like a little Easter, for we celebrate the solemn truth of our faith that Blessed Mary is risen from the dead along with her Son, that she possesses in Heaven already the glory of both soul and body. Our joy in Our Mother's glory comes from our realization that she, who walked perfectly by faith her whole earthly life, finally has received the Beatific Vision of God in Heaven and that this Vision has overflowed into her body, glorifying it like her Son's. She, who suffered so much sorrow especially at the foot of the Cross now has no more sorrow and no more waiting. She is all holy and all happy now in Heaven, glorified entirely in soul and body. The teaching of the ordinary Magisterium of the Church is that Mary's Assumption was preceded by a most peaceful death, free of all bodily corruption and surrounded by the Apostles. Her death was a death of love, her soul leaving her body with the ease of perfectly ripe fruit being picked off its tree. Three days later, she rose from the dead, by the same divine power by which we too hope to rise on the last day. She was then taken up into Heaven to be crowned Queen of Heaven and the entire universe. Fittingly, the Church sings "Ave, Regina Caelorum" at Night Prayer on this feast day. Mary's Assumption is a sharing in the Easter of Jesus. She had died with Him a most violent death spiritually at the foot of the Cross. Our tradition insists that she truly died with Him, albeit spiritually. Her soul was really pierced and she was the perfect martyr. At the foot of the Cross, she shares His Good Friday, the Queen of Martyrs perfectly associated with His Bloody Offering. In her Assumption, she receives the glory she merited in Him by dying with Him on the Cross. So, on her little Easter, as she enters into her glory, which is only and always God's glory, we say to her: "Rejoice, O Virgin Mary! Rejoice a thousand times!" She is Our Mother! She is in glory! Where she has gone, we hope to follow! Fr. Joseph Previtali 3 P age

4 Fr. Joseph Illo's Laptop Greetings My name is Fr. Joseph Illo, your new pastor. Fr. Driscoll and I hope to continue the good work of Fr. Mazza and the faithful laity at Star of the Sea, and I am deeply grateful to him for solidly establishing the Latin Mass here. Please pray that we may work faithfully and diligently in accomplishing God s will at this beautiful parish, dedicated to the mother of his Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I myself was baptized at Star of the Sea parish in New York City in 1961, and now I return to Our Lady, Star of the Sea, on another coast. Stewardship Jesus describes a steward in today s Gospel, someone who manages another man s wealth and property. St. Paul writes (1 Cor 4:2) that it is required of a steward that he be faithful, but this steward is unfaithful and loses his job. If your office manager is unfaithful, he cannot remain your office manager. On a more personal level, imagine lending your brand new BMW to a friend for his road trip to Chicago. You would want him to treat your automobile as if it were his own. Well, the Good God has lent us something infinitely more precious than a new car. He has lent us our lives: our bodies, our minds, and our immortal souls. We do not own our lives, or anything else. The car you drive, the house you live in, the education you ve achieved, even your own body all has come from God and all is returning to him. The fact is, we are stewards, now owners, and God will require a full account of our stewardship. If He finds that we have squandered his property, he will take back what is His. St. Paul writes in the Epistle that we are not debtors to the flesh our flesh does not own us, but neither do we own our flesh. God owns both, and if we squander what is His, we will lose the lives God has lent us. Most of our neighbors in post Christian America unthinkingly live as if they owned their own bodies, and their bodies end up owning them, slaves and debtors to their own flesh. We Christians must witness to the fact that our bodies are not our own. Our Bodies I remember the tag line first used by the pro abortion lobby in the mid 70s, when I was a high school student. It s my body, and I ll do what I want with it. First of all, the unborn child is not the mother s body, but a genetically distinct individual, even though they come from their mothers and depend on them. But even if the fetus were just an appendage of the mother, she does not own herself anyway. Her body, and her soul, are on loan from God. All around us people are squandering their bodies and souls, as if they were theirs to waste. This city is famous for playing with human bodies as if they were toys, but I think there are many more sensible people in San Francisco than not. We all know that God is not mocked. Everyone, even the demons, serve Him, either willingly or unwillingly. Even should we prove to be bad stewards, we are all still stewards, for we are not owners. I ve never seen a dying person holding on to the illusion he owned his own life. Our lives will be taken back someday, and it is for that day that we are preparing a full account of our stewardship. We must be prudent, for which the Master commended his dishonest ex steward, but above all we must be faithful. Our Lady Our Lady, the virgin most prudent, is also the virgin most faithful and mother of grace. If we want to be not just prudent stewards, but faithful stewards; if we want to become saints, we must have daily recourse to her in the holy rosary and other devotions. I am so happy to be at a parish named for Our Lady, Stella Maris. May we entrust our life s pilgrimage to her, God s own mother, the Star of the Sea guiding us across the waters of this life to our true home in heaven. 4 P age

5 Photo: Institute of Christ the King Priestly Ordinations last August 5, 2014 Mass Propers for the 9th Sunday after Pentecost: August 10, 2014 Introit Ps 53:6 7 Behold, God is my helper, the Lord sustains my life. Turn back the evil upon my foes; in Your faithfulness destroy them, O Lord, my protector. Ps 53:3 O God, by Your name save me, and by Your mighty deliver me. V. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost. Collect May Your merciful ears be open, O Lord, to the prayers of those who humbly entreat You; grant that they may ask for what pleases You so that You may fulfill their desires. Epistle 1 Cor. 10:6 13 Brethren: We should not lust after evil things even as they lusted. And do not become idolaters, even as some of them were, as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, even as some of them committed fornication, and there fell in one day twenty three thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them tempted, and perished by the serpents. Neither murmur, as some of them murmured, and perished at the hands of the destroyer. Now all these things happened to them as a type, and they were written for our correction, upon whom the final age of the world has come. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. May no temptation take hold of you but such as man is equal to. God is faithful and will not permit you to be tempted beyond your strength, but with the temptation will also give you a way out that you may be able to bear it. Gradual Ps 8:2 O Lord, our Lord, how glorious is Your name over all the earth! V. You have elevated Your Majesty above the heavens. Alleluia, alleluia. Ps 58:2 V. Rescue me from my enemies, O my God; from my adversaries defend me. Alleluia. Gospel Luke 19:41 47 At that time, when Jesus drew near to Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it, saying, If you had known, in this your day, even you, the things that are for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. For days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a rampart about you, and surround you and shut you in on every side, and will dash you to the ground and your children within you, and will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you have not known the time of your visitation. And He entered the temple, and began to cast out those who were selling and buying in it, saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves. And He was teaching daily in the temple. Offertory Ps 18:9 12 The precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart, and His ordinances sweeter than syrup or honey from the comb; therefore Your servant is careful of them. Secret Grant us, we beseech You, O Lord, to take part worthily and frequently in this sacramental action: for as often as this sacrifice of commemoration is offered, the work of our redemption is performed. Communion John 6:57 He who eats My Flesh, and drinks My Blood, abides in Me, and I in him, says the Lord. Post Communion May the partaking of Your sacrament, we beseech You, O Lord, cleanse us and unite us. 5 P age

6 The Metropolitan Ecclesiastical Province of San Francisco Archdiocese of San Francisco Star of the Sea Church 4420 Geary Blvd. San Francisco, CA Sunday 11am, M F 730am, First Friday 630pm Immaculate Conception Chapel 3255 Folsom St San Francisco, CA Sunday 5pm St. Monica Church th Ave San Francisco, CA Mon Sat 12pm Most Holy Rosary Chapel One Vincent Drive San Rafael, CA Sundays and Holy Days 12:15pm Mater Dolorosa Church 307 Willow Ave. South San Francisco, CA Sunday 5pm, M F 12pm St. Francis of Assisi Church 1425 Bay Road East Palo Alto, CA Friday 6pm St. Catherine of Siena Church 1310 Bayswater Ave Burlingame CA 5:30pm 4th Sunday of the month Santa Rosa Diocese Hermann and Sons Hall 860 Western Avenue, Petaluma, CA Sunday at 9:30 a.m. St. Eugene s Cathedral 2323 Montgomery Dr. Santa Rosa, CA Tue (5:30pm); Sun (1:30pm) Diocese of Oakland St. Margaret Mary (ICRSS) 1219 Excelsior Ave Oakland, CA Sun: 7am, 12:30pm, M W & Fri: 6pm Thur: 12pm, Sat: 10am Immaculate Heart of Mary 500 Fairview Ave. Brentwood, CA Sunday: 5pm Carmel of Jesus, Mary and Joseph John McCosker Ranch Rd Canyon, CA Times vary: check website carmelites of canyon.blogspot.com St. Albert the Great Priory (OP) 6172 Chabot Road Oakland, CA First Sat: 10am (Dominican Rite) St. Edward Church 5788 Thornton Ave. Newark, CA Thursday: 5:30pm Santa Maria Church 40 Santa Maria Way Orinda, CA Sunday: 12:30pm Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology (OP) 2301 Vine St. Berkeley, CA rd Thursday: 5:15pm (Dominican Rite) Diocese of San Jose Immaculate Heart of Mary Oratory Five Wounds Parish Church (ICRSS) 1375 E. Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA Sunday: 12:30pm; Monday Friday: 12:15pm First Saturdays: 8pm with the Blessed Sacrament exposed during the Holy Mass Diocese of Sacramento St. Stephen the First Martyr (FSSP) th St. Sacramento CA Sun: 8:30am, 10:30am, 1pm Mon, Wed: 7am, 12:15pm Tue, Thur: 7am, 6:30pm Fri: 7am, 12:15pm, 6:30pm Sat: 7am, 9am St. Joseph Catholic Church 1791 Marshall Rd. Vacaville, CA Sunday: 2:00pm Knights of Columbus Hall 535 Florida St. (temporary location) Vallejo, CA Sunday: 8:00am NB We are in the process of adding more locations where the TLM is being offered. If you know of a place please us with the information. Thank you. 6 P age