Holy Rosary Latin Mass Community

We are organizing a Latin Mass Community project to help the St. Vincent de Paul shelter with some quarterly cleaning.  We need volunteers 14 yearsold and up for 3 hours Feb 13, Feb 14, and Feb 15.  Moms and younger children can help out also by baking breads and cookies that will be taken to the hotel.  In addition, non-perishable food and toiletries will be collected after Mass on each of these days to replenish the shelter’s severely depleted stocks.  If you can help out in any of these ways, please contact Ken at edgekd@juno.com for more details.

CAMP ST. PETER 2010 will take place June 18 - July 2, for boys between 12 and 15 years of age. For a printable application form and further information, please visit the following website:

http://www.fsspolgs.org/Camp_Application.pdf

If you still have questions after visiting this site, you may contact the camp director at:   www.fsspcamp@gmail.com or you may write to:  Camp Saint Peter in the Black Hills,  PO Box 147, Denton, NE 68339.  All applications must be mailed to the above address, postmarked no later than May 1.

Due to renovations at Our Lady of the Rosary, we will be having weekday Latin Masses at Old St. Adalbert, 1509 Valley St.  (directions here) for the next several weeks.  The exact length of time has not been made definite yet.  We apologize for the last-minute nature of this change.

Please enter through the southwest corner door (nearest the street and facing the large corner parking lot) and follow the signs up to the chapel.

The temporary schedule is:

Monday through Saturday  9:00 AM

Sundays, Holy Days of Obligation, and First Fridays remain as usual at Our Lady of the Rosary at the customary times.  Please be diligent in checking the bulletin or this website over the next few weeks to avoid any inconvenience.

There is an e-mail list for the community to permit rapid dissemination of news, prayer requests, etc.  Anyone interested can send an email to news@daytonlatinmass.org asking to be included.  The list is moderated and only posts specifically referring to the community or its activities will be published.

(Reproduced from the Decree of the Apostolic Penitentiary)

For Priests: Truly repentant priests who, on any day, devoutly recite at least morning Lauds or Vespers before the Blessed Sacrament, exposed for public adoration or replaced in the tabernacle, and who, after the example of St John Mary Vianney, offer themselves with a ready and generous heart for the celebration of the sacraments, especially Confession, are mercifully granted in God the Plenary Indulgence which they may also apply to their deceased brethren in suffrage, if, in conformity with the current norms, they receive sacramental confession and the Eucharistic banquet and pray for the Supreme Pontiff’s intentions.

Furthermore the Partial Indulgence is granted to priests who may apply it to their deceased confreres every time that they devoutly recite the prayers duly approved to lead a holy life and to carry out in a holy manner the offices entrusted to them.

For All: The Plenary Indulgence is granted to all the faithful who are truly repentant who, in church or in chapel, devoutly attend the divine Sacrifice of Mass and offer prayers to Jesus Christ the Eternal High Priest, for the priests of the Church, and any other good work which they have done on that day, so that he may sanctify them and form them in accordance with His Heart, as long as they have made expiation for their sins through sacramental confession and prayed in accordance with the Supreme Pontiff’s intentions: on the days in which the Year for Priests begins and ends, on the day of the 150th anniversary of the pious passing of St John Mary Vianney, on the first Thursday of the month or on any other day established by the local Ordinaries for the benefit of the faithful.

It will be most appropriate, in cathedral and parish churches, for the same priests who are in charge of pastoral care to publicly direct these exercises of devotion, to celebrate Holy Mass and to hear the confession of the faithful.

The Plenary Indulgence will likewise be granted to the elderly, the sick and all those who for any legitimate reason are confined to their homes who, with a mind detached from any sin and with the intention of fulfilling as soon as possible the three usual conditions, at home or wherever their impediment detains them, provided that on the above-mentioned days they recite prayers for the sanctification of priests and confidently offer the illnesses and hardships of their lives to God through Mary Queen of Apostles.

Lastly, the Partial Indulgence is granted to all the faithful every time they devoutly recite five Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias, or another expressly approved prayer, in honour of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, to obtain that priests be preserved in purity and holiness of life.

This Decree is valid for the entire duration of the Year for Priests. Anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

Documents of interest:

• Blessing of Water in Traditional and New Rite
• Article by Van Slyke

A children’s choir has recently begun.  Meetings are after Mass on Sundays.  The children will be trained in basic music and chant with a view to some day having them sing on certain occasions.  Please contact Lynn McCaw for more information.  Any children from age 7 and up are eligible to take part.

All are invited to join the Mothers Group in praying for vocations after the fourth Sunday Mass of each month. Prayer booklets are provided. This takes only a few minutes as we pray for all religious vocations but especially for those of the priesthood. Please join us in the pews in front of the Marian altar.

In June 2005, the Pontifical Academy for Life issued guidelines on the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccines and other medical products. In essence, if the vaccines are needed due to “considerable dangers to their health” or “significant risk” the PAFL permits parents to use them “on a temporary basis”. However, the duty to put an end to this injustice was eminently clear:

“Therefore, doctors and fathers of families have a duty to take recourse to alternative vaccines (if they exist), putting pressure on the political authorities and health systems so that other vaccines without moral problems become available. They should take recourse, if necessary, to the use of conscientious objection with regard to the use of vaccines produced by means of cell lines of aborted human foetal origin. Equally, they should oppose by all means (in writing, through the various associations, mass media, etc.) the vaccines which do not yet have morally acceptable alternatives, creating pressure so that alternative vaccines are prepared, which are not connected with the abortion of a human foetus, and requesting rigorous legal control of the pharmaceutical industry producers.”

In December 2008, this duty became an official instruction in the teaching, Dignitas Personae, in which the Holy See stated that: “everyone has the duty to make known their disagreement and to ask that their healthcare system make other types of vaccines available.”

We are uniting in a faithful response to the call of our Church by asking you to participate in two important petitions. As some of you may have heard, Merck has recently announced they will no longer provide their morally produced doses of measles and mumps vaccines, opting instead to only produce their tainted, MMR, which is produced using aborted fetal materials. A national petition is being sent to Merck requesting they respect the pro-life convictions of millions of families worldwide and continue to provide these doses.

A second effort is also underway that will force the pharmaceutical industry through legislative action to divulge whenever aborted fetal or embryonic materials are used in any medical product or vaccine so that moral alternatives may be selected in advance of purchase or immunization. The Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act opens the market for competing companies that have agreed to provide ethical versions.

One such company founded last year for this purpose is Ave Maria Biotechnology. World-renowned Catholic scientist, Dr. Theresa Deisher (pronounced “dye-shur”) founder and CEO has agreed to provide moral alternatives for every vaccine that presently uses aborted fetal cell lines. The first will be a moral rubella vaccine, expected to be licensed and available in the US by the end of 2010 and an MMR within 5 years. But without the separate doses for measles and mumps in the interim, her efforts will be fruitless. And without the legislation, how will anyone know which vaccines are morally acceptable? There are numerous new vaccines under development for Flu, Avian Flu, and West Nile virus: some are morally produced, some are not.

The full document “Dignitas Personae” can be found online here.

For those faithful who wish to sign up as members of the Holy Rosary Latin Mass Community, please fill out this Registration Form.

Please fill the form out as completely as possible and either mail it to the chaplain’s residence or drop it in the collection basket.