Bulletin 98

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806

EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

April 15th, 2012 Low Sunday (Divine Mercy Sunday)

NO LATIN MASS AT 2:30PM

Epistle: 1Jn. 5: 4-10—Gospel: Jn. 20:19-31

Mass Schedule April 16th through April 20th

Monday-Feria of Paschaltide-NO LATIN MASS

Tuesday through Friday-Feria of Paschaltide

“He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me” (Lk 10:16). The Apostles are ambassadors of Christ just as Christ is the ambassador of the Father. The bishops are successors of the Apostles. Christ commands that the teaching of the Apostles should be religiously accepted and kept as if it were His very own. Vatican II, in its document Presbyterorum ordinis, states that “The function of the bishop’s ministry was handed over in a subordinate degree to priests so that they might be appointed in the order of the priesthood and be co-workers of the episcopal order for the proper fulfillment of the apostolic mission that had been entrusted to it by Christ.”

One key part of this mission is to continue to encourage Penance for the forgiveness of sins. The Church has always understood that Jesus Christ Himself conferred upon the Apostles authority to forgive sins. This power is exercised is the sacrament of Penance.

The sacrament of Penance is the most sublime expression of God’s love and mercy towards men. Christ waits for us and invites us to repentance. The Popes have always encouraged regular use of the sacrament of Penance. It is a means to grow in knowledge of ourselves and in Christian humility. Through confession we root out our vices and maintain spiritual fervor. Let us implore the mercy of God on ourselves and upon all mankind.

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Bulletin 97

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806

EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

April 8th, 2012 Easter Sunday

Epistle: 1 Cor. 5, 7-8 Gospel: Marc. 16, 1-7

Mass Schedule for the Octave of Easter

Easter Monday-NO LATIN MASS
Easter Tuesday
Easter Wednesday
Easter Thursday
Easter Friday
Easter Saturday-NO LATIN MASS

DIVINE MERCY SUNDAY-NO LATIN MASS AT 2:30PM

IF YOU HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO HELP IN THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE CORPUS CHRISTI PROCESSION I ASK THAT YOU PLAN ON MEETING AFTER MASS THIS EASTER SUNDAY WITH JIM GILLET.

The Catholic Church has designated Sunday as the day especially consecrated to the Lord. It is meant to be a day of rest on which we are commanded to attend Holy Mass. “Dies Domini” means the Lord’s Day. Jesus Christ was crucified, but now we rejoice in His glorious victory of the resurrection! The resurrection is the central mystery of our faith. Saint Paul says “If Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain” (1Cor 15:14). The Resurrection means that Jesus Christ has overcome death, sin, pain and the power of hell.

St. Pius X writes the following: “…just as Jesus Christ through His resurrection began a new immortal and heavenly life, so we must begin a new life according to the Spirit, once and for all renouncing sin and everything that leads to sin, loving God and everything that leads to God.”

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Bulletin 96

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806

EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

April 1st, 2012 Palm Sunday

Epistle: Phil. 2: 5-11; Gospel: Mt. 26: 36-75; 27: 1-60

Mass Schedule for Holy Week

Monday of Holy Week-NO LATIN MASS

Tuesday of Holy Week

Wednesday of Holy Week

Holy Thursday-NO LATIN MASS

Good Friday-No Liturgy

POT LUCK DINNER SUNDAY, APRIL 1ST AFTER THE 2:30PM LATIN MASS

Jesus Christ is a true king as He makes His way in triumph into Jerusalem. Jesus calmed the seas. He cured the sick, healed the leper, gave sight to the blind, made the lame walk, and commanded the paralytic to carry his own bed home. Christ is the master of evil spirits, nature, and man.

Jesus even raised Lazarus from the tomb! “Who is He, who has command over death and the grave?” As Christ makes His way into Jerusalem He is the king whose coming was foretold by the prophets. He has shown Himself as master over all creatures, over nature, and even the evil spirits.

In this triumphal entry, unlike the triumphal processions of the days of old, pride and ambition are not represented. Instead humility, meekness, mortification and self-denial are all apparent. In one word, unselfishness! Christ was loved by the poor and outcast of the world. He had no friends in high places. He had no friends who were rich.

“Hosanna! Hail to the Son of David! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!” This is the way Christ comes to us when we receive the Holy Eucharist. He humbles Himself for our sake. Let us receive Him with gratitude and give Him back all we have and are. Let us give Him our hearts.

In Christo Jesu
et Maria Immaculata,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Springfield area Catholic pro-life supporters have organized the Springfield, MO Life Runners chapter, associated with the National Life Runners Team. Life Runners is an organization encouraging Catholics to support respect for all life from conception through natural death, through prayer, witness, and walking/running. We want to invite all area pro-life Catholics to join Life Runners, and to join in our upcoming events, including:

•Fun Run/Walk at Phelps Grove Park at 8am on April 21.

•Walk and Time of Prayers and Witness at Cowden Park across from Planned Parenthood on May 12 from 10am-Noon.

• The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Medical Mile and 5K on June 2 at Meyer Center by Cox South Hospital.

•Saint Louis Rock and Roll Marathon/Half-Marathon/5K on October 21 in Saint Louis, MO.

For more information, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315417748506189/

NOTE: I will be running in the go Saint Louis Marathon in Saint Louis, MO on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00am. This is Divine Mercy Sunday.

THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON APRIL 15TH AT 2:30PM.

Bulletin 95 Addendum

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806 EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN):

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

March 25th, 2012 Passion Sunday

Epistle: Heb. 9: 11-15; Gospel: Jn. 8: 46-59

Mass Schedule March 26th through March 30th

Monday: Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary- NO LATIN MASS

Tuesday through Friday: Feria of Passiontide

Christ offered Himself upon the Cross because He willed it. No one took His life from Him. He laid it down freely. Christ offered His life for the sins of the world. By the will of His Father, weariness, fear and sadness broke His heart. Christ was a lonely stranger upon the earth. He was without true friends in the midst of a perverse, sensual and ungrateful people! Imagine how He must have longed for heaven and His Father’s house.

Christ watched in terror as the heartless executioners mocked Him, abused Him and spit in His face. He watched the hypocritical Pharisees ridicule Him on the road to Calvary. Saint Leo the Great tells us that:

“True reverence for the Lord’s passion means fixing the eyes of our heart on Jesus crucified and recognizing in Him our own humanity. The earth-our earthly nature-should tremble at the suffering of its Redeemer. The rocks-the hearts of unbelievers-should burst asunder. The dead, imprisoned in the tombs of their mortality, should come forth, the massive stones now ripped apart. Foreshadowing’s of the future resurrection should appear in the holy city, the Church of God: what is to happen to our bodies should now take place in our hearts.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the Cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. His prayer brought benefit to the multitude that raged against Him. How much more does it bring to those who turn to Him in repentance.”

Have you ever experienced a desire to follow Christ in a special way? How can an individual recognize the way of life to which he is called by God? First of all one must have recourse to prayer, and while one prays, one must try to maintain an attitude of perfect detachment, not allowing oneself to be inclined to one alternative rather than to another before God manifests His will. One must maintain a spirit of generosity and readiness to embrace whatever God reveals to be His will. If one prays, reflects, and seeks in this manner, God will let the person know what He wills for the person.

In attempting to discern God’s will in the choice of a way of life, one should place before one’s mind the one end and purpose for which one has been created by God: that is to praise, reverence, and serve God, and in this way to save one’s soul, and be resolved not to allow any other considerations sway one’s choice. Which way of life offers the best means for promoting the greater glory of God? Which way of life provides the best means for attaining the heights of holiness? Which way of life provides the best opportunity for contributing to the well-being of the greater number of people and of helping them attain salvation?

Let me see myself on my death bed and ask myself which choice I would then wish that I had made. I should now make that decision. Let me also see myself standing before God in judgment after my death, and as God asks an account of my life, let me consider which choice I shall then wish that I had made in life. I should now make that decision!

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Springfield area Catholic pro-life supporters have organized the Springfield, MO Life Runners chapter, associated with the National Life Runners Team. Life Runners is an organization encouraging Catholics to support respect for all life from conception through natural death, through prayer, witness, and walking/running. We want to invite all area pro-life Catholics to join Life Runners, and to join in our upcoming events, including:

• Fun Run/Walk at Phelps Grove Park at 8am on April 21 with National Life Runners director Dr. Patrick Castle.

• Walk and Time of Prayers and Witness at Cowden Park across from Planned Parenthood on May 12 from 10am-Noon.

• The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Medical Mile and 5K on June 2 at Meyer Center by Cox South Hospital.

• Saint Louis Rock and Roll Marathon/Half-Marathon/5K on October 21 in Saint Louis, MO.

For more information, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315417748506189/

NOTE: I will be running with Dr. Patrick Castle in the go Saint Louis Marathon in Saint Louis, MO on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00am. This is Divine Mercy Sunday.

THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON APRIL 15TH AT 2:30PM.

THERE WILL BE NO POT LUCK DINNER THIS MONTH…OUR NEXT POT LUCK DINNER WILL BE APRIL 1 IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE 2:30PM MASS.

Bulletin 95

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806

EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN)

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

March 25th, 2012 Passion Sunday

Epistle: Heb. 9: 11-15; Gospel: Jn. 8: 46-59

Mass Schedule March 26th through March 30th

Monday: Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary- NO LATIN MASS

Tuesday through Friday: Feria of Passiontide

Christ offered Himself upon the Cross because He willed it. No one took His life from Him. He laid it down freely. Christ offered His life for the sins of the world. By the will of His Father, weariness, fear and sadness broke His heart. Christ was a lonely stranger upon the earth. He was without true friends in the midst of a perverse, sensual and ungrateful people! Imagine how He must have longed for heaven and His Father’s house.

Christ watched in terror as the heartless executioners mocked Him, abused Him and spit in His face. He watched the hypocritical Pharisees ridicule Him on the road to Calvary. Saint Leo the Great tells us that:

“True reverence for the Lord’s passion means fixing the eyes of our heart on Jesus crucified and recognizing in Him our own humanity. The earth-our earthly nature-should tremble at the suffering of its Redeemer. The rocks-the hearts of unbelievers-should burst asunder. The dead, imprisoned in the tombs of their mortality, should come forth, the massive stones now ripped apart. Foreshadowing’s of the future resurrection should appear in the holy city, the Church of God: what is to happen to our bodies should now take place in our hearts.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the Cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ. His prayer brought benefit to the multitude that raged against Him. How much more does it bring to those who turn to Him in repentance.”

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Springfield area Catholic pro-life supporters have organized the Springfield, MO Life Runners chapter, associated with the National Life Runners Team. Life Runners is an organization encouraging Catholics to support respect for all life from conception through natural death, through prayer, witness, and walking/running. We want to invite all area pro-life Catholics to join Life Runners, and to join in our upcoming events, including:

• Fun Run/Walk at Phelps Grove Park at 8am on April 21 with National Life Runners director Dr. Patrick Castle.

• Walk and Time of Prayers and Witness at Cowden Park across from Planned Parenthood on May 12 from 10am-Noon.

• The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Medical Mile and 5K on June 2 at Meyer Center by Cox South Hospital.

• Saint Louis Rock and Roll Marathon/Half-Marathon/5K on October 21 in Saint Louis, MO.

For more information, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315417748506189/

NOTE: I will be running with Dr. Patrick Castle in the go Saint Louis Marathon in Saint Louis, MO on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00am. This is Divine Mercy Sunday.

THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON APRIL 15TH AT 2:30PM.

THERE WILL BE NO POT LUCK DINNER THIS MONTH.

Bulletin 94

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806

EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN):

CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

March 18, 2012 Fourth Sunday of Lent (Leatare Sunday)

Epistle: Gal. 4: 22-31; Gospel: Jn.6:1-15

Mass Schedule March 19th through March 23rd

Monday: Saint Joseph, Spouse of the Blessed Virgin Mary- NO LATIN MASS

Tuesday through Friday: Feria of Lent

Springfield area Catholic pro-life supporters have organized the Springfield, MO Life Runners chapter, associated with the National Life Runners Team. Life Runners is an organization encouraging Catholics to support respect for all life from conception through natural death, through prayer, witness, and walking/running. We want to invite all area pro-life Catholics to join Life Runners, and to join in our upcoming events, including:

• Fun Run/Walk at Phelps Grove Park at 8am on April 21 with National Life Runners director Dr. Patrick Castle.

• Walk and Time of Prayers and Witness at Cowden Park across from Planned Parenthood on May 12 from 10am-Noon.

• The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Medical Mile and 5K on June 2 at Meyer Center by Cox South Hospital.

• Saint Louis Rock and Roll Marathon/Half-Marathon/5K on October 21 in Saint Louis, MO.

For more information, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315417748506189/

NOTE: I will be running with Dr. Patrick Castle in the go Saint Louis Marathon in Saint Louis, MO on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00am. This is Divine Mercy Sunday.

THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON APRIL 15TH AT 2:30PM.

THERE WILL BE NO POT LUCK DINNER THIS MONTH.

Jesus promises Himself as nourishment for our souls. He also demands that we trust Him when difficulties and trials come our way. We must always have faith. In fact, if we cultivate a true and sincere devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, one great effect of such a devotion is that Mary will give us a share in this same faith of hers! The Blessed Virgin’s faith was the greatest of all faiths. It was greater than the faiths of all the apostles, saints and prophets combined!

Mary had a perfect holiness. In the Blessed Virgin God places before our eyes a concrete model of what we are to love, and, loving, strive to be. He gives us a model that is at once perfect and yet lowly, lovable, and imitable. Despite her unique privilege and lofty holiness, Mary is the most imitable of the saints, because her greatness is in her lowliness. She is the handmaid of the Lord. Mother, yes, but first handmaid. Blessed because she believed. Blessed because of her faith!

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us!!

In Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

Buletin 93

SAINT AGNES CATHEDRAL 533 South Jefferson Springfield, MO 65806
EXTRAORDINARY FORM OF THE MASS (LATIN): CELEBRANT Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching

March 11, 2012 Third Sunday of Lent
Epistle: Eph. 5: 1-9; Gospel: Lk. 11: 14-28

Mass Schedule March 12th through March 16th:

Monday: Feria of Lent NO LATIN MASS
Tuesday through Friday: Feria of Lent

Springfield area Catholic pro-life supporters have organized the Springfield, MO Life Runners chapter, associated with the National Life Runners Team. Life Runners is an organization encouraging Catholics to support respect for all life from conception through natural death, through prayer, witness, and walking/running. We want to invite all area pro-life Catholics to join Life Runners, and to join in our upcoming events, including:

. A Fun Run/Walk at Sequiota Park at 8am on March 3 – bring cans of food to help Saint Vincent de Paul and feed the poor.

• Fun Run/Walk at Phelps Grove Park at 8am on April 21 with National Life Runners director Dr. Patrick Castle.

• Walk and Time of Prayers and Witness at Cowden Park across from Planned Parenthood on May 12 from 10am-Noon.

• The Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals Medical Mile and 5K on June 2 at Meyer Center by Cox South Hospital.

• Saint Louis Rock and Roll Marathon/Half-Marathon/5K on October 21 in Saint Louis, MO.

For more information, visit their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/315417748506189/

NOTE: I will be running with Dr. Patrick Castle in the go Saint Louis Marathon in Saint Louis, MO on April 15th, 2012 at 7:00am. This is Divine Mercy Sunday.

THERE WILL BE NO LATIN MASS ON APRIL 15TH AT 2:30PM.

THERE WILL BE NO POT LUCK DINNER THIS MONTH.

Saint Paul reminds us that if we want to please God our Father, we must learn from His Son Jesus Christ. We must learn the details of His life. We must adopt his attitudes. We must contemplate His life. If we truly love Jesus Christ we will sincerely want to know all about His life and character so that we can become more like Him.

There is absolutely no quicker way to conform ourselves to the person of Jesus Christ than by meditating upon the mysteries of His life. We do this when we pray the Holy Rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Saint Louis Marie de Montfort writes that: “All our perfection consists in being conformed, united and consecrated to Jesus Christ; and therefore the most perfect of all devotions is, without any doubt, that which the most perfectly conforms, unites and consecrates us to Jesus Christ. Now Mary, being the most conformed of all creatures to Jesus Christ, it follows that of all devotions, that which most consecrates and conforms the soul to our Lord is devotion to His Holy Mother; that the more a soul is consecrated to Mary, the more it is consecrated to Jesus Christ.”

My prayer is that more souls devote themselves to praying the Holy Rosary each day. Let us be slaves of Jesus Christ in Mary.

Sincerely in Christ,

Rev. Jeffery A. Fasching