Bulletins

September 8, 2013

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After Holy Mass on Monday evenings as well as after any "Low" Traditional Mass, you will hear all the prayers that were requested by the Bishops of Rome from 1884 to 1965. Between the Salve Regina and the prayer to St. Michael the Archangel, the priest offers up on behalf of everyone the following beautiful prayer:

Let us pray. O God, our refuge and our strength,
look down with favor
upon Thy people who cry to Thee;
and through the intercession
of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary,
Mother of God,
of her spouse, blessed Joseph,
of Thy holy apostles, Peter and Paul, and all the saints,
mercifully and graciously hear the prayers
which we pour forth to Thee
for the conversion of sinners and
for the liberty and exaltation of holy mother Church.
Through the same Christ our Lord. Amen.

The faithful also offer up the Hail Mary three times before the Salve and invoke the Sacred Heart of Jesus three times after the St. Michael prayer.

In St. John the Beloved's account of the Last Supper, Our Lord commanded the Apostles to love one another and then immediately warned them "If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you" (John 15,18-19).

With genuine love for all souls and with sincere desire and tireless effort to promote everyone's salvation, we know that we still will be hated. Rather than growing bitter and resentful and without becoming indifferent to the suffering of the Church, we pray for "for the conversion of sinners and for the liberty and exaltation of holy mother Church." The gates of hell will assault the Church but will not prevail (Matthew 16,18).

Along the same lines, Our Lord warns us in Luke's Gospel "Woe to you, when all men speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets" (Luke 6,26. If those who reject Jesus don't also hate us, there may be something wrong with us.

Before leaving the peaceful sanctuary after receiving Holy Communion, maybe it is worth a few extra prayers to be resolute about our mission, to be prepared for the struggle and to be confident in Our Lord's power and grace.

God bless you.

Fr. Christopher J. Pollard
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