Springfield Missouri Traditional Latin Mass

Springfield Missouri Traditional Latin Mass Mass according to Missal of Pope St John XXIII (1962) on Sundays at 8:00AM; Confessions at 7:00. What About Traditiones Custodes?

Saint Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Ozark, Missouri is the only parish in the Springfield, Missouri metropolitan area to offer the Mass according to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite. Following the motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI, Summorum Pontificum (effective 14 September 2007), Mass according to the 1962 Missal of Pope Saint John XXIII was celebrated in Springfield, Missouri for

the first time in just over 38 years by Monsignor Raymond Victor Orf (+2021) at Holy Trinity Parish on 10 February 2008, the First Sunday of Lent and feast of Saint Scholastica. Eventually the Extraordinary Form Mass was celebrated on Sundays and weekdays at the Cathedral of Saint Agnes in Springfield beginning on Tuesday, 1 July 2008, the feast of the Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ. After being celebrated for seven years and 3 ½ months at Saint Agnes, our then-Bishop James Vann Johnston, Jr. asked our parish to take up the offering of Mass in the Extraordinary Form for the local community beginning in October 2015. Our parish pastor at the time, Father Scott Michael Sunnenberg, celebrated his first Missa lecta (Low Mass) in the Extraordinary Form on the 21st Sunday after Pentecost, 18 October 2015, which was also World Mission Sunday and the feast of Saint Luke the Evangelist. The Feast of the Most Holy Body of Christ -- Festum Sanctissimi Corporis Christi -- was celebrated as an External Solemnity on Sunday, 3 June 2018 with the first-ever Missa solemnis (Solemn High Mass) to be celebrated in this church structure since it was built and dedicated in 1991. On 16 July 2021, the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Pope Francis issued a new motu proprio outlining renewed restrictions regarding the celebration of the pre-Vatican II Liturgy. Sole competence & authority to determine the allowance of such celebration is now given to the local ordinary (bishop). Our bishop, His Excellency Edward Matthew Rice, on 22 July 2021, feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, issued a letter to all priests and faithful of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau stating that he would be making “no change” to the current allowance for the celebration of the Mass according to the liturgical books of 1962. With his permission and approval, our parish continues to celebrate Mass according to the 1962 Missal at 12:30 on Sundays. Regarding the stipulation in TC that the usus antiquior not be celebrated in parish churches, Bishop Rice invokes Canon 87, paragraph 1 to grant dispensation from this portion of the motu proprio, permitting celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite to continue in parishes. We affirm and profess that:
1) The Second Vatican Council (11 October 1962--8 December 1965) was a valid and legitimate ecumenical council;

2) The Mass, Sacraments, and Liturgies of Pope Saint Paul VI (1970), commonly referred to as the Novus Ordo or the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, are valid and legitimate;

3) His Holiness Pope Francis is the 266th Pope and Bishop of Rome, the valid and legitimate head of the Catholic Church, to whom we owe spiritual and filial submission.

May 26-ST. PHILIP NERIPHILIP was one of the noble line of Saints raised up by God in the sixteenth century to console an...
05/26/2024

May 26-ST. PHILIP NERI

PHILIP was one of the noble line of Saints raised up by God in the sixteenth century to console and bless His Church. After a childhood of angelic beauty the Holy Spirit drew him away from Florence, the place of his birth, showed him the world, that he might freely renounce it, led him to Rome, modelled him in mind and heart and will, and then, as by a second Pentecost, came down in visible form and filled his soul with light and peace and joy. He would have gone to India, but God reserved him for Rome. There he went on simply from day to day, drawing souls to Jesus, exercising them in mortification and charity, and binding them together by cheerful devotions; thus, unconsciously to himself, under the hands of Mary, as he said, the Oratory grew up, and all Rome was pervaded and transformed by its spirit. His life was a continuous miracle, his habitual state an ecstasy. He read the hearts of men, foretold their future, knew their eternal destiny. His touch gave health of body; his very look calmed souls in trouble and drove away temptations. He was gay, genial, and irresistibly winning; neither insult nor wrong could dim the brightness of his joy. Philip lived in an atmosphere of sunshine and gladness which brightened all who came near him. "When I met him in the street," says one, "he would pat my cheek and say, Well, how is Don Pellegrino?" and leave me so full of joy that I could not tell which way I was going." Others said that when he playfully pulled their hair or their ears, their hearts would bound with joy. Marcio Altieri felt such overflowing gladness in his presence that he said Philip's room was a paradise on earth. Fabrizio de Massimi would go in sadness or perplexity and stand at Philip's door; he said it was enough to see him, to be near him. And long after his death it was enough for many, when troubled, to go into his room to find their hearts lightened and gladdened. He inspired a boundless confidence and love, and was the common refuge and consoler of all. A gentle jest would convey his rebukes and veil his miracles. The highest honors sought him out, but he put them from him. He died in his eightieth year, in 1595, and bears the grand title of Apostle of Rome.

Reflection-
Philip wished his children to serve God, like the first Christians, in gladness of heart. He said this was the true filial spirit; this expands the soul, giving it liberty and perfection in action, power over temptations, and fuller aid to perseverance.

CollectO ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast enabled the servants, in confessing the true Faith, to acknowledge the g...
05/26/2024

Collect
O ALMIGHTY and everlasting God, who hast enabled the servants, in confessing the true Faith, to acknowledge the glory of the eternal Trinity, and in the power of Majesty to adore its Unity: we beseech Thee, that by steadfastness in the same Faith, we may ever be defended against all adversity. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, who liveth and reigneth with Thee in the unity of ...

Epistle
From Blessed Paul the Apostle to the Romans,
11.33-36.
[The fundamental dogma of our Faith is that of the Holy Trinity.]

THE depth of the riches of the wisdom and of the knowledge of God! How incomprehensible are His judgments, and how unsearchable His ways! For who hath known the mind of the Lord? Or who hath been His counsellor? Or who hath first given to Him, and recompense shall be made him? For of Him, and by Him, and in Him, are all things: to Him be glory for ever. Amen.

Gospel
Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St Matthew,
28. 18-20.
[It is into the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost that Christians are baptised. Mission of the Apostles.]

AT that time Jesus said to His A disciples. All power is given to Me in heaven and on earth. Going therefore, teach ye all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you; and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. -Creed.

TRINITY SUNDAYFEAST OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.As it was in ...
05/26/2024

TRINITY SUNDAY
FEAST OF THE MOST HOLY TRINITY
"Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.

As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen."

As soon as we have celebrated the Advent of the Holy Ghost, we celebrate the Feast of the Holy Trinity in the office of the following Sunday.

The time is well chosen, for, immediately after the descent of this Divine Spirit, began the preaching and belief and Baptism and confession in the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. (St Rupert)

PENTECOST or WHITSUNDAYOur Lord Jesus Christ, being seated on the right hand of God, sent, as He had promised, the Holy ...
05/19/2024

PENTECOST or WHITSUNDAY
Our Lord Jesus Christ, being seated on the right hand of God, sent, as He had promised, the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, who, after His Ascension, continued in prayer at Jerusalem, in company with the Blessed Virgin, awaiting the performance of His promise. Let us pray in like manner with the Church: "Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Thy faithful and kindle in them the fire of Thy love."

Collect
O GOD, who this day hast taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly wise and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through our Lord the unity of the same ...

Lesson
From the Acts of the Apostles,
2. 1-11.
[St Luke, in the Acts, shows us how the promise of our Lord Jesus Christ is fulfilled: "But if I go I will send Him to you ... the Spirit of truth"]

WHEN the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place; and suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. And when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded in mind, because that every man heard them speak in his own tongue. And they were all amazed, and wondered, saying: Behold, are not all these that speak Galileans? And how have we heard every man our own tongue wherein we were born? Parthians and Medes, and Elamites, and inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia, ygia, and Egypt, and and the Pamphylia, parts of Lybia about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews also and Proselytes, Cretes, and Arabians: we have heard them speak in our own tongues the wonderful works of God.

Gospel
Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St John.
14. 23-31.
[St John tells us that Jesus had foretold to His disciples the coming of the Holy Ghast; it was left for the Paraclete to complete the training of the Apostles and to endow them with strength and divine light.]

AT that time Jesus said His disciples: If any one love Me he will keep keep My word, and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and will make Our abode in him: he that loveth Me not, keepeth not My words. And the word which you have heard is not Mine; but the Father's who sent Me. These things have
I spoken to you, abiding with you. But the Paraclete, the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My Name, He will teach you a things, and bring all things t your mind, whatsoever I sha have said to you. Peace I leave with you, My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid. You have heard that I said to you: I go away, and I come unto you. If you loved Me, you would indeed be glad, because I go to the Father: for the Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass you may believe. I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world cometh and in Me he hath not any thing. But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the Father hath given Me commandment so do I. Creed.

May 13-ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE, Bishop, Confessor, DoctorST. ROBERT BELLARMINE, of whom Pope Clement VIII said: "The Churc...
05/13/2024

May 13-ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE, Bishop, Confessor, Doctor

ST. ROBERT BELLARMINE, of whom Pope Clement VIII said: "The Church of God God had not his equal in learning," was born of a noble family at Montepulciano in Tuscany in 1542. He lived until 1621 and it was a very full life conspicuous for exemplary piety. Brilliant and unusually devout as a young man he attended the Jesuit College in the town. Later he entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at Rome, but his course here was shortened partly because of his delicate health, which lasted all his days. Having passed through the course of philosophy at the Roman College, he was sent to Florence, then to Monreale, later to Padua to teach sacred theology, and afterwards to Louvain. Before his ordination, while still a student at Louvain University, he was appointed to preach against heretical doctrines. With consummate skill, he used the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas to offset heresies on grace, free will and papal authority. Probably on account of this rare success, he was recalled to Rome at the wish of Pope Gregory XIII and appointed to a new chair of controversial theology at the Roman College, of which he later became rector. There as spiritual director, he guided the angelic youth Aloysius in the paths of holiness. It was also during his eleven years at this college that he managed to write his Disputations, a work so great that it was difficult to believe it the labor of one man. A Catechism composed by him at this time is said to have gone into more translations than any book except the Bible and the Imitation of Christ. It is still used in Italy. He was elevated to the Cardinalate by Pope Clement VIII, who publicly declared that he did not have his equal among theologians in the Church of God at the time. Some years later the same Pope consecrated him Bishop and appointed him Archbishop of Capua, which office he resigned after three years. He continued his life of penance at Rome and devoted himself utterly to the service of the poor. During his last years he became librarian of the Vatican Library and counselor to the Supreme Pontiff. He evidently kept his heart and mind attuned to the Lord's summons at death. His "Art of Dying" is witness to this fact. Almost 80 years old, he fell into his last illness at St. Andrew's on the Quirinal hill and in it he showed his usual radiant virtue. He died in 1621. Pope Pius XI canonized him in 1930 and made him a Doctor of the Church the following year. A contemporary cardinal declared that Robert was sent by God for the instruction of Catholics, for the guidance of the good, and for the confusion of heretics. St. Francis de Sales regarded him as a fountain of learning. Pope Benedict XIV called him the hammer of heretics, and Pope Benedict XV proclaimed him the model of promoters and defenders of the Catholic religion.

Reflection-
The writings of the Saints breathe religion, chastity, integrity, humility and charity. We cannot read their books without imbibing some of their spirit of holiness and love of virtue.

05/12/2024

SUNDAY AFTER THE ASCENSION

Let us, like the Apostles gathered together, prepare in prayer for the holy Day of Pentecost; let us pray, as the Church prescribes, for the return of heretics to unity.
Epistle
From the First Letter of Blessed Peter the Apostle,
4.7-11.
[Let us watch and pray in faith and charity, awaiting the descent of the Holy Ghost.]

DEARLY beloved, be prudent and watch in prayers. But before all things have a constant mutual charity among yourselves: for charity covereth a multitude of sins. Using hospitality one towards another, without murmuring: as every man hath received grace, ministering the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God. If any man speak, let him speak, as the words of God: if any minister, let him do it, as of the power which God administereth: that in all things God may be honoured through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Alleluia, alleluia. (Ps. 46. 9). The Lord hath reigned over all the nations; God sitteth on His holy throne. Alleluia. (John 14. 18). I will not leave you orphans: I go away, and I come unto you, and your heart shall rejoice. Alleluia.

Gospel

Continuation of the holy Gospel according to YO St John, 15. 26, 27; 16. 1-4.

[Our Lord Jesus Christ promised that He would send the Holy Ghost.]

AT that time, Jesus said to His disciples, when the Paraclete cometh, whom I will send you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceedeth from the Father, He shall give testimony of Me: and you shall give testimony because you are with Me from the beginning. These things I have spoken to you, that you may not be scandalised. They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God. And these things will they do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me. But these things I have told you, that, when the hour shall come, you may remember that I told you of them. Creed.

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May 6-ST. JOHN BEFORE THE LATIN GATEIN THE year 95, St. John, who was the only surviving Apostle, and governed all the c...
05/06/2024

May 6-ST. JOHN BEFORE THE LATIN GATE

IN THE year 95, St. John, who was the only surviving Apostle, and governed all the churches of Asia, was apprehended at Ephesus, and sent prisoner to Rome. The Emperor Domitian did not relent at the sight of the venerable old man, but condemned him to be cast into a caldron of boiling oil. The martyr doubtless heard, with great joy, this barbarous sentence; the most cruel torments seemed to him light and most agreeable, because they would, he hoped, unite him forever to his divine Master and Saviour. But God accepted his will and crowned his desire; He conferred on him the honor and merit of martyrdom, but suspended the operation of the fire, as He had formerly preserved the three children from hurt in the Babylonian furnace. The seething oil was changed in his regard into an invigorating bath, and the Saint came out more refreshed than when he had entered the caldron. Domitian saw this miracle without drawing from it the least advantage, but remained hardened in his iniquity. However, he contented himself after this with banishing the holy Apostle into the little island of Patmos. St. John returned to Ephesus, in the reign of Nerva, who by mildness, during his short reign of one year and four months, labored to restore the faded lustre of the Roman Empire. This glorious triumph of St. John happened without the gate of Rome called Latina. A church which since has always borne this title was consecrated in the same place in memory of this miracle, under the first Christian emperors.

Reflection-
St. John suffered above the other Saints a martyrdom of love, being a martyr, and more than a martyr, at the foot of the Cross of his divine Master. All His sufferings were by love and compassion imprinted in his soul, and thus shared by him. O singular happiness, to have stood under the Cross of Christ! O extraordinary privilege, to have suffered martyrdom in the person of Jesus, and been eyewitness of all He did or endured! If nature revolt within us against suffering, let us call to mind those words of the divine Master: "Thou knowest not now wherefore; but thou shalt know hereafter."

05/05/2024

FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER
The Church continues to exalt the risen Christ and exhorts us to unite with her in prayer.

Epistle
From Blessed James the Apostle,
1.22-27.
[Let us follow the perfect law of liberty: the precepts of God and the Church: and God will bless us in our deeds.]

DEARLY beloved, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if a man be a hearer of the word and not a doer, he shall be compared to a man beholding his own countenance in a glass: for he beheld himself and went his way, and presently forgot what manner of man he was. But he that hath looked into the perfect law of liberty and hath continued therein, not becoming a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work: this man shall be blessed in his deed. And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain. Religion clean and undefiled before God and the Father is this: To visit the fatherless and widows in their tribulation, and to keep one's self unspotted from this world.

Gospel
Continuation of the holy Gospel according to St John,
16. 23-30.
[Let us ask of God, from whom all good things come, by the merits of Jesus our Redeemer, spiritual and temporal graces.]

AT that time Jesus saith to His disciples: Amen, amen, I say to you: If you ask the Father any thing in My Name, He will give it you. Hitherto you have not asked any thing in My Name: Ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. These things I have spoken to you in proverbs. The hour cometh when I will no more speak to you in proverbs, but will show you plainly of the Father. In that day you shall ask in My Name: and I say not to you that I will ask the Father for you: for the Father Himself loveth you, because you have loved Me and have believed that I came out from God. I came forth from the Father and am come into the world; again I leave the world and I go to the Father. His disciples say to Him: Behold, now Thou speakest plainly and speakest no proverb. Now we know that Thou knowest all things and Thou needest not that any man should ask Thee: by this we believe that Thou camest forth from God. Creed.

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