Our Lady of Lourdes Diocese of Covington’s Latin Mass Parish

1101 AMSTERDAM ROAD PARK HILLS KY 41011

“I do not promise you happiness in this life, only in the next”

Pastor Fr. Shannon Collins, MSJB pastor@ourladyoflourdes.info Associate Pastors Fr. Sean Kopczynski, MSJB assistant@ourladyoflourdes.info Fr. Daniel Kluge In Residence Fr. Jeffery Jambon Parish Office Ph. 859.291.1854 Confessions Sunday: 45 minutes before each Mass Monday—Saturday: 30 minutes before Masses Saturday afternoon: 3:00-4:30 pm

Holy Day Masses 6:30 am, 12:10 pm, 7:00 pm

Compline & Devotions 8:00 pm daily Baptism and Marriages All Sacraments at Our Lady of Lourdes are performed according to the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite, with the liturgical books of 1962 being normative.

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Mass Calendar & Intentions SUNDAY May 7: 3rd Sunday after Easter

8:00 AM 10:00 AM

Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations Pro Populo

MONDAY May 8: Apparition of St. Michael 6:30 AM

12:10 PM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations Peter Edward Family

TUESDAY May 9: St. Gregory Nazianzen, Bishop, Confessor & Doctor 6:30 AM

12:10 PM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations Gregory & Christine’s Family

WEDNESDAY May 10: St. Antoninus, Bishop & Confessor 6:30 AM

12:10 PM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations Edward Jay’s Family

THURSDAY May 11: Saints Philip & James, Apostles 6:30 AM

12:10 PM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations Chris and Ann’s Family

FRIDAY May 12: Ss Nereus, Achilleus, Domitilla, Virgin & Pancras, Martyrs 6:30 AM

12:10 PM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations John Edward’s Family

SATURDAY May 13: St. Robert Bellarmine 8:00 AM Reparation for Neglect of & Negligence in Priestly & Religious vocations

OT TOO LONG AGO, I ran across an interview given by a Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna, Italy. In the interview, Cardinal Caffarra spoke of the correspondence he had with Sister Lucia regarding this decisive battle. The Cardinal received a hand written note back from Sr. Lucia. In

it we find written: the final battle between the Lord and the reign of Satan will be about marriage and the family. Don’t be afraid, she added, because anyone who operates for the sanctity of marriage and the family will always be contended and opposed in every way, because this is the decisive issue. And then she concluded: however, Our Lady has already crushed its head. I am reminded, too, of that approved apparition of Our Lady of Good Success in Quito, Ecuador, back in the early 1600s. Our Lady infallibly predicted that in our modern age: the passions will erupt and there will be a total corruption of morals… As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ with His Church, it will be attacked and deeply profaned. Freemasonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous laws with the aim of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy for everyone to live in sin and encouraging procreation of illegitimate children born without the blessing of the Church. And then the Blessed Mother added this ominous statement…one that seems so true especially today: In this supreme moment of need for the Church, the one who

3rd Sunday after Easter May 7, 2017

On Saturday, May 13th, in honor of Our Lady of Fatima, there will be a Rosary, Coronation (our May crowning) and Procession starting at 10 AM followed by a High Mass. Please come and honor Our Lady of Fatima.

Weekly Financial Report Week of Sunday Apri l 30, 2017

Sunday Collection: Checks

Cash & Coin

$1213.00

$425.80 Online & Other Donations

Candles $219.72

$58.52 TOTAL $1917.04

Please consider taking a baby bottle (located downstairs) to fill with donations of change, cash or checks. All proceeds go to New Hope Center, dedicated to the pro-life cause and preventing the grave evil of abortion.

As the weather gets warmer, please remember the guidelines for dressing appropriately for attendance at Our Lady of Lourdes. See the box below. Also, please remember that we do have parishioners who make beautiful veils and modest skirts and jumpers. They are the

Alhambra Auxiliaries. You can visit their website at https://www.saintlinusveils.com/

should speak will fall silent. Yes…we clerics…priests, bishops, and yes, popes…we have fallen silent. We spoke out a bit over the issue of divorce, but eventually retreated in silence. We cowered before the world and failed to shepherd the Faithful regarding the issue of the contraceptive mentality. We then whimpered over things like co-habitation, infidelity, and company keeping. We were afraid of the women’s movement and the power of feminist ideology, so we gave into the modern mindset and were quiet about wives being submissive to their husbands. And with the abomination of sodomy now legalized and heavily promoted, many Catholic clerics are being swept along in this modern wave of impurity, accepting or at least tolerating that sin which calls down vengeance from heaven. In this decisive battle about marriage and family, we need Our Lady of Fatima's all-powerful intercession. We pray that she will crush the head of the serpent. Please consider attending our special celebration of the 100th anniversary of Our Lady’s apparitions at Fatima on May 13th, beginning at 10 AM. Let us prepare for battle.—Fr. Shannon Collins, MSJB,

AJESTIC QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND MISTRESS OF THE ANGELS, thou didst receive from God the power and commission to crush the head of

Satan; wherefore we humbly beseech thee, send forth the legions of Heaven, that, under thy command, they may seek out all evil spirits, engage them everywhere in battle, curb their insolence, and hurl them back into the pit of Hell. “Who is like unto God?” O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our hope and the object of our love. O Mother of God, send forth the holy Angels to defend us and drive far from us the cruel foe. Holy Angels and Archangels, defend us and keep us. Amen.

To dress becomingly for God and neighbor, and in keeping with the reverence due to the Blessed Sacrament, kindly refrain from wearing shorts, tee-shirts, tank-tops, revealing blouses, sleeveless or backless dresses, or form-fitting clothing of any sort. Please do wear dresses and skirts that fall below the knee when seated. With due regard to time and circumstance, all are encouraged to wear decorous attire befitting sacred and divine worship.

On June 13, 1917, Our Lady of Fatima said to the shepherd children: “Jesus wants to use you to make me known and loved. He wants to establish devotion to my Immaculate Heart in the world. To those who embrace it I promise salvation, and those souls will be beloved by God like flowers placed by me to adorn His Throne.” In 1925 Our Lady came to Sr. Lucia alone to give her the devotion of the Five First Saturdays of Reparation to Immaculate Heart.

A confessor of Sr. Lucia of Fatima asked: “Why does it have to be five Saturdays, and not nine or seven in honor of the sorrows of Our Lady?” Sr. Lucia later gave this response:

While staying in the chapel with Our Lord part of the night of 29th to the 30th of the month of May 1930, and speaking to Our Lord, I suddenly felt more intimately possessed by the Divine Presence; and if I am not mistaken, the following was revealed to me, ‘My daughter, the reason is simple. There are five types of offenses and blasphemies perpetrated against the Immaculate Heart of Mary: (1) Blasphemies against her Immaculate Conception; (2) Against her virginity; (3) Against her divine maternity and at the same time refusing to accept her as the Mother of men; (4) Those who publicly try to instill indifference, scorn and even hatred toward this Immaculate Mother in the hearts of children; and (5) Those who insult her directly in her sacred images.”