Saint John
the Baptist
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Latin Mass Community Fr. Laurent
Demets, FSSP Rectory
Address NORTH LITTLE ROCK Confessions ½ hour prior to Mass St. Patrick's Church CHOIR: Meets on Wednesdays, 7 PM. Call
Greg Backus @ 224-9621 for more information Mountain
Home Saint Peter the Fisherman Sunday at 5 pm |
Confessions
before Mass St.
Michael's Church Sat 9:00 AM e-mail: |
BULLETIN WEEK 7 2008
Liturgical Calendar and Mass
Intentions
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Sun. 17 Feb |
Second Sunday
of Lent |
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Pro Populo |
Pro Populo |
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Mon. 18 Feb |
Feria |
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Mr. Donald Define |
Family Rossi |
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Tue. 19 Feb |
Feria |
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Conversion MW & JW |
Vincent Dionis |
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Wed. 20 Feb |
Feria |
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Private Intention |
Michael and Erin Solimento |
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Thu. 21 Feb |
Feria |
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Price Gilenwater |
David William Witter |
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Fri. 22 Feb |
Chair of Saint Peter |
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Ebner Margarete |
Members of Confraternity of Saint Peter |
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Sat. 23 Feb |
Feria |
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Dorothy Beardslee |
Private Intention |
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(Fr. Gordon) |
(Fr. Demets) |
ANNOUNCEMENTS
We welcome visitors to our
community. If you would like to join, please see the priest after Mass. If you
would like to borrow a chapel veil, these are available in the rear of the
church. Holy Communion is received kneeling (health permitting) and is given on
the tongue.
"The Serra
Club of the Diocese of Little Rock is sponsoring a one-day workshop which
will be open to anyone wishing to participate. The workshop,
entitled "Carmelite Spirituality for the Laity in Today's
World", will be presented by Fr. John Michael Payne on Saturday,
March 1, 2008, from 9 AM to 12PM at Our Lady of Holy Souls
Parish Hall. If you have any questions, please call Mary Jo Lewno at 501-224-8088 and leave your name/phone
number/question. Pre-registration is not required.
Homeschool Conference: The 9th
Annual Catholic Curriculum Fair and Homeschool
Conference will take place on 14-15 March, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee (St.
Louis Catholic Church). The speakers are Fr. Ripperger,
FSSP and Mrs. Maureen Wittmann. If you are interested
there will be some fliers available in the vestibule with further information.
Prayer
Request: Please keep in your prayers
Norm Rubel.
NORTH LITTLE ROCK
Classes
for Confirmation: We will meet with
those who are to be confirmed after Mass today. Because Father will be meeting
with the confirmandi immediately after Mass on Sunday,
we ask that you those wishing to go to confession come early or wait until he
is finished with the class. Fr. will try to be in the confessional an hour
before Mass and go back to the confessional after the class is through.
Children
choir: Wednesday 13th at 7
pm and Sunday 24th after Mass
Apologetic
Class for adults: Sunday 24th
at 9:30 am.
The
subject of this year is the Divine Revelation. We will see what the Revelation
is, what are its objects and modes, in other words, why and how did God reveal
certain truths that we must know.
February
Devotional: On the 3rd
Thursday (21 February) at 6pm we will have a meditation with exposition and
benediction as in the years past. The subject of the meditation will be The Reproaches
of Good Friday.
St. Francis de Sales on Fasting
To treat of fasting and of what is required
to fast well, we must, at the start, understand that of itself fasting is not a
virtue. The good and the bad, as well as Christians and pagans, observe it. The
ancient philosophers observed it and recommended it. They were not virtuous for
that reason, nor did they practice virtue in fasting. Oh, no, fasting is a
virtue only when it is accompanied by conditions which render it pleasing to
God. Thus it happens that it profits some and not others, because it is not
undertaken by all in the same manner.
We find some people who think that to fast
well during the holy season of Lent it is enough to abstain from eating some
prohibited food. But this thought is too gross to enter into the hearts of
persons dedicated to Our Lord. We know very well that it is not enough to fast
exteriorly if we do not also fast interiorly and if we do not accompany the
fast of the body with that of the spirit.
It will be very helpful to state clearly
what must be done to fast well
these
forty days. For although everyone is bound to know it and to practice it,
persons dedicated to Our Lord are more particularly obliged to it. Now, among all
the conditions required for fasting well, I will select three principal ones
and speak familiarly about them.
The FIRST condition is that we must fast
with our whole heart, that is to say, willingly, whole-heartedly, universally
and entirely. If I recount to you St. Bernard's words regarding fasting, you
will know not only why it is instituted but also how it ought to be kept.
He says that fasting was instituted by Our
Lord as a remedy for our mouth, for our gourmandizing and for our gluttony.
Since sin entered the world through the mouth, the mouth must do penance by
being deprived of foods prohibited and forbidden by the Church, abstaining from
them for the space of forty days. But this glorious saint adds that, as it is
not our mouth alone which has sinned, but also all our other senses, our fast
must be general and entire, that is, all the members of our body must fast.
The SECOND condition is never to fast
through vanity but always through humility. If our fast is not performed with
humility, it will not be pleasing to God. Prepare yourselves to fast with
charity, for if your fast is performed without it, it will be vain and useless,
since fasting, like all other good works, is not pleasing to God unless it is
done in charity and through charity.
The THIRD condition necessary for fasting
well is to look to God and to do everything to please Him, withdrawing within
ourselves in imitation of a great saint, St. Gregory the Great, who withdrew
into a secret and out-of-the-way place where he remained for some time without
anyone knowing where he was, being content that the Lord and His angels knew
it.