The Descent of the Holy Ghost, by Tiziano Vecellio, c. 1545.

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.

Pastor: Rev. Fr. Joseph Terra, FSSP Assistant: Rev. Fr. John Shannon, 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 June 12, 2011

Sunday Masses

Propers: Readings:

Pentecost Sunday, Class I, Red

Acts of the Apostles 2: 1-11; St. John 14: 23-31

Intentions:

9:00 am Low Mass; 11:00 am High Mass at Mater Misericordiae Mission, Monroe St. Church

9:00 am: Pro Populo; 11:00 am: Chacko Xavier Nadakapdam+

Intentions:

Second Sunday of the Month: 8:00 am Low Mass in Flagstaff; 10:30 am Low Mass in Clarkdale 8:00 am: Pro Populo; 10:30 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, June 13 Thursday, June 16

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Monday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Acts of the Apostles 10: 34, 42-48

St. John 3: 16-21 6:30am: Virginia Kaminski

6:30pm: Matthew Frazzini+

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Thursday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Acts of the Apostles 8: 5-8

St. Luke 9: 1-6 6:30am: Elizabeth Roberts

6:30pm: Monique Brown (safe delivery of her child)

Tuesday, June 14 Friday, June 17

Propers:

Readings: Intentions:

Tuesday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Acts of the Apostles 8: 14-17

St. John 10: 1-10 6:30am: Elinor Dunn+

6:30pm: Theresa Tubbs+

Propers:

Readings: Intentions:

Ember Friday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Joel 2: 23-24; 26-27

St. Luke 5: 17-26 6:30am: Dolores and Anna Cordova

6:30pm: Anna Munduttuchundayil+

Wednesday, June 15 Saturday, June 18

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Ember Wednesday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Acts of the Apostles 2: 14-21; 5: 12-16

St. John 6: 44-52 6:30am: Laura Reed

6:30pm: Margaret Mary Roberts

Propers:

Readings:

Intentions:

Ember Saturday After Pentecost

Class I, Red

Joel 2: 28-32; Romans 5: 1-5

St. Luke 4: 38-44 6:30am: Amando Gandarilla+

8:00am: Deceased of the McAllister Family

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 10am Mass. Other times by arrangement.

PARISH ANNOUNCEMENTS

Exposition and Adoration:

The Most Blessed Sacrament will be

exposed for adoration on Monday and

Thursday mornings following the 6:30 a.m. Mass until 11:00. All are invited

to come and keep Our Lord company

and pray especially for the sidewalk counselors that stand in front of two

abortion mills, one on Eugie in Glendale; the other on

7th St. here in Phoenix. Prayer is of the utmost impor-tance in bring the scourge of abortion to an end.

Prayer For Life in Reparation for Roe v. Wade:

God and Father of Life, You have created every hu-

man person, And have opened the way for each to have eternal life. We live in the shadow of death. Tens

of millions of your children have been killed because of

the Roe vs. Wade decision legalizing abortion. Father,

have mercy on us. Heal our land And accept our offer-ing of prayer and penance. In your love for us, Turn

back the scourge of abortion. May each of us exult in

hearts full of hope and hands full of mercy and work together to build a culture of life. We pray through

Christ our Lord. Amen.

They were all filled with the Holy Ghost.

SUNDAY COLLECT.

O God, who on this day didst teach the hearts of Thy

faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant us by the

same Spirit to have a right judgment in all things and ever to rejoice in His consolation. Through our Lord...

in the unity of the same Holy Ghost. .

SUNDAY EPISTLE: Acts of the Apostles 2: 1-11

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 com-

ing, and it filled the whole house where they were sit-

ting. 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 won-

dered, 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, and Pam-

phylia, Egypt, and the 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. .

SUNDAY GOSPEL: St. John 14: 23-31

At that time Jesus said to His disciples: If any one love

Me, he will 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 all things, and bring all things to your mind,

whatsoever I shall 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 com-mandment so do I.

FSSP PRAYER REQUESTS

June 12: Fr. Michael O'Leary

June 13: Fr. Frank Parrinello June 14: Fr. Kenneth Webb

June 15: Pope Benedict XVI

June 16: Deacon Kevin O'Neill

June 17: Fr. Calvin Goodwin June 18: Fr. John Fongemie

Whitsuntide, Sermon 75

By Pope St. Leo the Great (d. A.D. 461)

I.

The giving of the Law by Moses prepared the way for the outpouring of the Holy Ghost. The hearts of all Catholics,

beloved, realize that today's solemnity is to be honoured as one of the chief feasts, nor is there any doubt that great

respect is due to this day, which the Holy Spirit has hallowed by the miracle of His most excellent gift. For from the day on which the Lord ascended up above all heavenly heights to sit down at God the Father's right hand, this is the

tenth which has shone, and the fiftieth from His Resurrection, being the very day on which it began, and containing

in itself great revelations of mysteries both new and old, by which it is most manifestly revealed that Grace was fore-announced through the Law and the Law fulfilled through Grace. For as of old, when the Hebrew nation were re-

leased from the Egyptians, on the fiftieth day after the sacrificing of the lamb the Law was given on Mount Sinai, so

after the suffering of Christ, wherein the true Lamb of God was slain on the fiftieth day from His Resurrection, the Holy Ghost came down upon the Apostles and the multitude of believers, so that the earnest Christian may easily

perceive that the beginnings of the Old Testament were preparatory to the beginnings of the Gospel, and that the

second covenant was rounded by the same Spirit that had instituted the first.

II.

How marvellous was the gift of "various tongues." For as the Apostles' story testifies: "while the days of Pentecost

were fulfilled and all the disciples were together in the same place, there occurred suddenly from heaven a sound as

of a violent wind coming, and filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them divided tongues as of fire and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with

other tongues, as the Holy Spirit gave them utterance." Oh ! how swift are the words of wisdom. and where God is

the Master, how quickly is what is taught, learnt. No interpretation is required for understanding, no practice for us-ing, no time for studying, but the Spirit of Truth blowing where He wills, the languages peculiar to each nation be-

come common property in the mouth of the Church.

And therefore from that day the trumpet of the Gospel-preaching has sounded loud: from that day the showers of

gracious gifts, the rivers of blessings, have watered every desert and all the dry land, since to renew the face of the

earth the Spirit of God "moved over the waters," and to drive away the old darkness flashes of new light shone forth, when by the blaze of those busy tongues was kindled the Lord's bright Word and fervent eloquence, in which to

arouse the understanding, and to consume sin there lay both a capacity of enlightenment and a power of burning.

III.

The three Persons in the Trinity are perfectly equal in all things. But although, dearly-beloved, the actual form of the

thing done was exceeding wonderful, and undoubtedly in that exultant chorus of all human languages the Majesty of

the Holy Spirit was present, yet no one must think that His Divine substance appeared in what was seen with bodily

eyes. For His Nature, which is invisible and shared in common with the Father and the Son, showed the character of His gift and work by the outward sign that pleased Him, but kept His essential property within His own Godhead:

because human sight can no more perceive the Holy Ghost than it can the Father or the Son. For in the Divine Trinity

nothing is unlike or unequal, and all that can be thought concerning Its substance admits of no diversity either in power or glory or eternity. And while in the property of each Person the Father is one, the Son is another, and the

Holy Ghost is another, yet the Godhead is not distinct and different; for whilst the Son is the Only begotten of the

Father, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of the Father and the Son, not in the way that every creature is the creature of the Father and the Son, but as living and having power with Both, and eternally subsisting of That Which is the Fa-

ther and the Son.

And hence when the Lord before the day of His Passion promised the coming of the Holy Spirit to His disciples, He

said, "I have yet many things to say to you, but ye cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of Truth shall

have come, He shall guide you into all the Truth. For He shall not speak from Himself, but whatsoever He shall have

heard, He shall speak and shall announce things to come unto you. All things that the Father hath are Mine: there-fore said I that He shall take of Mine, and shall announce it to you." Accordingly, there are not some things that are

the Father's, and other the Son's, and other the Holy Spirit's: but all things whatsoever the Father has, the Son also

has, and the Holy Spirit also has: nor was there ever a time when this communion did not exist, because with Them to have all things is to always exist. In them let no times, no grades, no differences be imagined, and, if no one can

explain that which is true concerning God, let no one dare to assert what is not true. For it is more excusable not to

make a full statement concerning His ineffable Nature than to frame an actually wrong definition.

And so whatever loyal hearts can conceive of the Father's eternal and unchangeable Glory, let them at the same

time understand it of the Son and of the Holy Ghost without any separation or difference. For we confess this blessed Trinity to be One God for this reason, because in these three Persons there is no diversity either of substance, or of

power, or of will, or of operation.