GoFundMe for St. Therese Mission school in Gabon, Africa

Our Latin Mass community regularly supports the Latin Mass Mission of St. Therese in Gabon, Africa. Good friends have created a GoFundMe account to help Rev. Canon Fragelli raise money to build, at the Mission, a school for 500 students. Please support them if possible, and feel free to pass on the following information, through whatever means you have: letters, emails, Facebook, twitter, WhatsApp, etc. You could do an immense good for a lot of people in just a few minutes.

The GoFundMe address is: https://gofund.me/ktvz65qc

Please be assured of their immense gratitude and of their prayers. Their prayer is that the Good Lord and the Blessed Mother will reward all for reaching out to those that, in a certain way, They love the most.

First Saturday Mass for April 2016

All are invited to our First Saturday Mass on April 2nd. at 12:00 noon. Confession will be available before Mass between 11:30 - 11:50 am. After Mass there will be the recitation of the Rosary.

Christus resurrexit! Easter Sunday 2016

Christus resurrexit! Christ is risen, Alleluia!
Easter Sunday High Mass 10:30 am at Queen of Heaven Cemetery Chapel.

Holy Week Schedule 2016

 All are invited to join us during Holy Week:

Holy Thursday Mass 5:00 pm

Good Friday 12 noon - 3:00 pm

Easter Sunday 10:30 am 

 The Institute of Christ the King will be having the Holy Saturday Easter Vigil Mass on March 26, at 11:00 p.m. at Five Wounds Church in San Jose
• Easter Vigil Mass
o With the Blessing of the New Fire and the Pascal Candle
o Exsultet Procession
o Blessing of the Baptismal Water
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Daylight Savings Time Spring 2016

Daylight Saving Time starts at 2 a.m. this coming Sunday, March 13th., which means you’ll want to turn your clocks ahead before you go to bed Saturday night, March 12th.

First Saturday Mass for March, 2016

All are invited to our First Saturday Mass on March 5th. at 12:00 noon. Confession will be available before Mass between 11:30 - 11:50 am. After Mass there will be the recitation of the Rosary, and then a Legion of Mary meeting for those that would like to attend.

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Ash Wednesday 2016

Lent arrives this Wednesday, February 10th. We will have Mass at 6 p.m. with distribution of Ashes. But Lent is also a time for fasting, prayer and penance. Traditional Lenten fasting was rigorous. And even in the 20th century it involved fasting every day (except for an occasional Holy Day). Fasting is not just giving up something like candy. It is usually understood as one normal sized meal a day, and two smaller meals which combined are less than a full meal. Only at that meal was meat allowed. And of course, no meat was allowed on Ash Wednesday nor on any Friday, with the exception of Holy Days of obligation, just as during the rest of the year. Abstinence was required from seven years old on. Fasting applied to those aged 21-59, with exceptions made for the sick, certain workers, pregnant and nursing women, etc. That discipline was in effect until about 50 years ago. Now, fasting is only required on Ash Wednesday and Good Friday (along with abstinence from meat of course on both days). Abstinence is required for those from 14 on, and fasting goes from 18 to 59. So, the LAW of the Church currently does not ask for as much--but people are still free to take on the older discipline. And in fact, most traditional Catholics practice at least part of the older discipline because it is, well, a discipline, undertaken for Christ.

Have a blessed Lent

Fr. Nicholas Milich

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