OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Mater Misericordiæ (Mother of Mercy) Mission glorifies God, uniting its members in faith, hope and charity through confession of the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Faith and through participation in

the Sacraments and Traditional Rites of the Missale Romanum of 1962, under the governance of the

Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix and the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter.

St. Michael Casting Satan Down

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Associate: Rev. Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP

Office: 602-253-6090 Cell: 480-231-0573 (for urgent messages) Fax: 602-253-8013

Church: 1537 W. Monroe St. Phoenix, AZ 85007 Mail: same as church address

Email: contact@phoenixlatinmass.org Website: www.phoenixlatinmass.org

Notitiæ September 23, 2012

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, Class II, Green

Ephesians 4:1-6; Matthew 22:34-46

Intentions:

9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission, Phoenix

9:00 am: Pro Populo; 11:00 am: Joseph Kelley

Intention:

9:00 am Low Mass at Saint Cecilia’s Mission, Clarkdale 9:00 am: Pro Populo

Weekday Masses

At Mater Misericordiae Mission, Monroe St. Church

Monday-Friday: 6:30 am and 6:30 pm, Saturday: 6:30 am and 8:00 am

Monday, September 24 Thursday, September 27

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Our Lady of Ransom

Class IV, White

Ecclesiasticus 24:14-16

Luke 11:27-28 6:30am: Otter

6:30pm: Otter

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Sts. Cosmas and Damian, Martyrs

Class III, Red

Wisdom 5:16-20

Luke 6:17-23 6:30am: Otter

6:30pm: Otter

Tuesday, September 25 Friday, September 28

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Class IV, Green

Ephesians 4:1-6

Matthew 22:34-46

6:30am: James Baumer

6:30pm: Benjamin Camo

Propers:

Readings: Intentions:

St. Wenceslaus, Martyr

Class III, Red

Wisdom 10:10-14

Matthew 10:34-42 6:30am: James Hallgren+

6:30pm: James Baumer

Wednesday, September 26 Saturday, September 29

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Sts. Isaac Jogues & Companions, Martyrs

Class III, Red

II Corinthians 12:11-15

Luke 6:17-23

6:30am: Otter

6:30pm: Otter

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Dedication of St. Michael the Archangel

Class I, White

Apocalypse 1:1-5

Matthew 18:1-10 6:30am: James Hallgren+

8:00am: James Hallgren+

Confessions At MMM Monroe St. Church: Mon-Sat: 15 minutes before each Mass. Saturdays: 3:30-4:30 pm.

Sundays: 8am, before the 9am Mass, between the 9am and 11am Masses, and after the 11am Mass.

At St. Cecilia’s: Saturdays: 3-4 pm. Sundays: Before the 9am Mass. Other times by arrangement.

FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS

September 23: Fr. Joel Kiefer

September 24: Fr. Joseph Lee

September 25: Fr. Thomas Longua

September 26: Fr. John Lyons, OMV September 27: Fr. Karl Marsolle

September 28: Fr. Frederico Masutti

September 29: Fr. Eric Flood

From the Commentary of Cornelius a Lapide on Today’s Gospel

This is the greatest and first commandment. For the

greatest virtue, and the queen of all virtues, is charity. Wherefore charity is more noble than religious worship

(religione). For it is more noble to love God with all the

heart than to offer Him sacrifices. You may add that charity, like a queen, commands sacrifices and all other

acts of religion. Lastly, love is the most noble affection

and act (of the soul), and is more excellent than fear, honour, and all others.

The second is like, &c., as thyself; Syr. as thy soul. Second—not in order of legislation, but of dignity and

perfection, although far below the first. For God is far

more to be loved than all angels and men, and all crea-

tures whatsoever. But after God, among creatures, our neighbour is to be loved above all things. Like, in love

and affection, and in the duties and offices which

spring from them.

He commands, therefore, that God shall be loved with

the whole heart; and our neighbour, not with the whole heart, but as ourselves. This does not mean—1st That

thou shouldst love thyself only, and neglect thy neigh-

bour, which is what self-love, arising from a nature corrupted by sin, suggests; but that thou shouldst ex-

tend to thy neighbour the love wherewith thou lovest

thyself. 2d. That as thou dost not love thyself frigidly, nor feignedly, but ardently and sincerely; so, in like

manner, shouldst thou love thy neighbour. This is what

Christ sanctioned when He said, “Whatsoever ye would

that men should do unto you, do likewise unto them.” And what Tobias, when he was dying, commanded his

son (Tob. iv. 16), “What thou hatest that another

should do unto thee, take heed that thou do not to an-other.” “For this is the law of love,” says S. Augustine

(de Vera Religion. c. 46), that the good things which a

man wishes to come to himself, he should wish likewise for his neighbour. And the evils which he wishes not to

happen to himself, he should be unwilling for them to

happen to him.” Dost thou wish that thy property, thy honour, thy wife, thy life should be taken from thyself?

Do not take them from others. Dost thou wish that

they should be given and preserved to thyself? Do thou

likewise preserve them for others.

SUNDAY COLLECT.

Grant, we beseech Thee, O Lord, that Thy people

may shun all the wiles of the devil; and with pure

mind follow Thee, the only God. Through Our

Lord.

SUNDAY EPISTLE: Ephesians 4:1-6

Brethren: I, a prisoner in the Lord, beseech you

that you walk worthy of the vocation in which you

are called: With all humility and mildness, with patience, supporting one another in charity. Care-

ful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of

peace. One body and one Spirit: as you are called

in one hope of your calling. One Lord, one faith, one baptism. One God and Father of all, who is

above all, and through all, and in us all, who is

blessed for ever and ever. Amen.

SUNDAY GOSPEL: Matthew 22:34-46

At that time the pharisees came to Jesus, and

one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him: Master, which is the great com-

mandment in the law? Jesus said to him: Thou

shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart

and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.

And the second is like to this: Thou shalt love thy

neighbour as thyself. On these two command-

ments dependeth the whole law and the proph-

ets. And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them, Saying: What think you of

Christ? Whose son is he? They say to him: Da-

vid's. He saith to them: How then doth David in

spirit call him Lord, saying: The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy ene-

mies thy footstool? If David then call him Lord,

how is he his son? And no man was able to an-

swer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

St. Isaac Jogues—From the Catholic Encyclopedia French missionary, born at Orléans, France, 10 January, 1607; martyred at Ossernenon, in the present

State of New York, 18 October, 1646. He was the first Catholic priest who ever came to Manhattan Island (New York). He entered the Society of Jesus in 1624 and, after hav-

ing been professor of literature at Rouen, was sent as a missionary to

Canada in 1636. He came out with Montmagny, the immediate suc-cessor of Champlain. From Quebec he went to the regions around the

great lakes where the illustrious Father de Brébeuf and others were labouring. There he spent six years in constant danger. Though a

daring missionary, his character was of the most practical nature, his purpose always being to fix his people in permanent habitations. He

was with Garnier among the Petuns, and he and Raymbault penetrat-ed as far as Sault Ste Marie, and "were the first missionaries", says

Bancroft (VII, 790, London, 1853), "to preach the gospel a thousand

miles in the interior, five years before John Eliot addressed the Indi-ans six miles from Boston Harbour". There is little doubt that they

were not only the first apostles but also the first white men to reach this outlet of Lake Superior. No documentary proof is adduced by the

best-known historians that Nicholet, the discoverer of Lake Michigan, ever visited the Sault. Jogues proposed not only to convert the Indi-

ans of Lake Superior, but the Sioux who lived at the head waters of the Mississippi.

His plan was thwarted by his capture near Three Rivers returning from Quebec. He was taken prisoner on 3 August, 1642, and after being cruelly tortured was carried to the Indian village of Ossernenon, now Auries-

ville, on the Mohawk, about forty miles above the present city of Albany. There he remained for thirteen months in slavery, suffering apparently beyond the power of natural endurance. The Dutch Calvinists at

Fort Orange (Albany) made constant efforts to free him, and at last, when he was about to be burnt to death, induced him to take refuge in a sailing vessel which carried him to New Amsterdam (New York). His

description of the colony as it was at that time has since been incorporated in the Documentary History of the State. From New York he was sent; in mid-winter, across the ocean on a lugger of only fifty tons bur-

den and after a voyage of two months, landed Christmas morning, 1643, on the coast of Brittany, in a

state of absolute destitution. Thence he found his way to the nearest college of the Society. He was re-ceived with great honour at the court of the Queen Regent, the mother of Louis XIV, and was allowed by

Pope Urban VII the very exceptional privilege of celebrating Mass, which the mutilated condition of his hands had made canonically impossible; several of his fingers having been eaten or burned off. He was

called a martyr of Christ by the pontiff. No similar concession, up to that, is known to have been granted.

In early spring of 1644 he returned to Canada, and in 1646 was sent to negotiate peace with the Iroquois. He followed the same route over which he had been carried as a captive. It was on this occasion that he

gave the name of Lake of the Blessed Sacrament to the body of water called by the Indians Horicon, now known as Lake George. He reached Ossernenon on 5 June, after a three weeks' journey from the St. Law-

rence. He was well received by his former captors and the treaty of peace was made. He started for Que-

bec on 16 June and arrived there 3 July. He immediately asked to be sent back to the Iroquois as a mis-sionary, but only after much hesitation his superiors acceded to his request. On 27 September he began his

third and last journey to the Mohawk. In the interim sickness had broken out in the tribe and a blight had fallen on the crops. This double calamity was ascribed to Jogues whom the Indians always regarded as a

sorcerer. They were determined to wreak vengence on him for the spell he had cast on the place, and war-riors were sent out to capture him. The news of this change of sentiment spread rapidly, and though fully

aware of the danger Jogues continued on his way to Ossernenon, though all the Hurons and others who were with him fled except Lalande. The Iroquois met him near Lake George, stripped him naked, slashed

him with their knives, beat him and then led him to the village. On 18 October, 1646, when entering a cab-

in he was struck with a tomahawk and afterwards decapitated. The head was fixed on the Palisades and the body thrown into the Mohawk.

[Isaac Jogues was canonized by Pope Pius XI on June 29, 1930, with seven other North American martyrs.

Their collective feast day in the United States is September 26.]

St. Isaac Jogues (bottom) and companions