Plenary Indulgences for the end/beginning of the Year

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posted by  Fr Fryar  1/31/14
Category:  The Spiritual Life 

I would like to wish you all a grace-filled New Year.  Today you may obtain a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, for reciting the Te Deum, giving thanks to God for the blessings and benefits of the past year. Here is a link to it:  https://www.ewtn.com/Devotionals/prayers/Te_Deum.htm

Tomorrow you can obtain a plenary indulgence for reciting the Veni Creator Spiritus, asking the Holy Ghost for His assistance during the coming year. http://www.ewtn.com/library/PRAYER/VENICREA.TXT

Saint Rose of Lima Latin Mass Attended by 330 People

A magnificent Sung High Mass was attended by 330 people at Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Simi Valley, California on Monday, December 29th.  Welcomed by Father Shea, the pastor of St. Rose, Father Earl Eggleston from the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter parish of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Littleton Colorado offered the Missa Cantata.

Members of the Latin Mass Community of Saint Mary Magdalen provided servers, choir members, organist & choir director.  The combined choir included parishioners of Saint Rose choir along with their choir director who is the sister of Fr. Eggleston.  Additional altar servers and a Master of Ceremonies from Los Angeles provided vestments and other liturgical items.

Selected music recordings (MP3):
Quem Pastores
Iste Confessor

Photos of Mass at St. Rose of Lima

Church Restoration at Saint John Chrysostom - Inglewood

Father Marcos Gonzalez was an associate pastor here at St. Mary Magdalen, Camarillo in the mid 1990's.  Father Gonzalez says that his ultimate goal in restoring St. John's is “to make the church a true temple of worship of Almighty God.  It should be a “Domus Dei” where hearts are lifted and inspired and the Faith is taught in all its beauty.”  He re-installed a marble altar rail at St. John Chrysostom a few years ago. 
Read about the Restoration at Regina Magazine 
Read about the Restorers at Heritage Liturgical 

Missa Cantata - Saint Rose of Lima - December 29th

Traditional Latin Mass
Monday, December 29th at 5:30 p.m.
Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church
1305 Royal Avenue
Simi Valley, CA 93065

Do you enjoy reverence and tradition? Do you love the sacred music of the Catholic Church? Are you attracted to the mystery and beauty of worship in the Latin language? Then the Traditional Latin Mass might be for you!

In 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum which encouraged the celebration of the Mass according to the Missal promulgated by Blessed John XXIII in 1962. Archbishop Jose Gomez has encouraged the celebration of the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

Homily - Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary - December 8, 2014

Prov. 8:22-35; Lk. 1:26-28

Today, we celebrate the cherished belief from time immemorial, and defined by Bd. Pope Pius IX in 1854, that the Blessed Virgin Mary was kept free from original sin from the first moment of her conception, by a unique grace and favor of God, in view of the foreseen merits of Christ in His cross, in order to fulfill her role in salvation history.

Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis - Dr. Peter Kwasniewski

Resurgent in the Midst of Crisis
Sacred Liturgy, the Traditional Latin Mass, and Renewal in the Church

Since the time of the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church has experienced an unprecedented crisis of identity, symbolized and propelled by the corruption of the greatest treasure of her tradition: the sacred liturgy. The result has been confusion, dismay, devastation. To the surprise of some, however, the same half-century has witnessed a growing counter-movement of Catholics who find in the Church’s traditional liturgy a perennial witness to the orthodox faith, a solid foundation for the interior life, an ever-flowing source of missionary charity, and a living embodiment of the true Catholic spirit.

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Father Sebastian Walshe on the Synod on the Family

On the final day of the recently concluded Synod on the Family, the Vatican’s official newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano, published an essay about the Synod’s purpose — and its challenges — by Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem. (Thomas Aquinas College, Class of 1994).  A professor of philosophy at St. Michael’s Abbey in Silverado, California, Fr. Sebastian argues that, “The stakes are high,” for the Synod. “For unless modern man can recapture the meaning which God has written into the natural human family, the result will be ignorance and error, indifference and animosity, toward the entire supernatural order.”  The full article is available via the Vatican’s news website.

Homily - Third Sunday of Advent - December 14, 2014

Phil. 4:4-7; Jn. 1:19-28

Today, is the Third Sunday of Advent, Gaudete Sunday, from the first words of the introit of today’s Mass, “Rejoice,” from the Epistle of St. Paul to the Philippians.  We use the rose vestments.  We rejoice because so near is the coming celebration of our Lord’s birth.  We rejoice because the Lord is near and gives us hope.

Homily - Second Sunday of Advent - December 7, 2014

Rom. 15:4-13; Mt. 11:2-10

The 1962 Missal is filled with insights for us.  Today’s Gospel features St. John the Baptist, but it is not about him.  It is fitting, since the whole purpose of St. John the Baptist was, “He must increase, I must decrease.”  His call was to point out and prepare the way for the Messiah, and this he does even in today’s Gospel.

Homily - First Sunday of Advent - November 30, 2014

Rom. 13:11-14; Lk. 21:25-33

As you may know, the New Testament epistles were written in Greek.  The Greeks have two words for time, one is “chronos,” from which we get the word, “chronology,” which is the measure of time by minutes, days, weeks, months, years.  The other is “kyros,” or, “time measured by the fulfillment of events.”  So it is a little like my young nephew, who once asked, during the middle of November, “When is Christmas?” and someone answered, “In six weeks,” which he could not comprehend at all.  And someone said to him, “Well, first we have to have Thanksgiving, then we have to put the lights on the house, then we have to get the tree, then we will put up the Nativity, then it will be Christmas,” and he understood.