Old Roman Catholic Church, Hudson Florida
Holy Thursday Apr
9 7pm (Latin w/English readings)
Good Friday Apr 10
STATIONS OF THE CROSS 3pm (English)
Mass of the Pre-Sanctified 7pm (English, Traditional)
Saturday Apr 11 7pm (English,
Traditional)
Easter Vigil
Sunday Apr 12 7:30am (English, Traditional)
Easter Sunday 9am (English, Traditional)
11:30am (Latin w/Eng readings)
As it stands, Holy Mass will continue open to the public.
For those worried, all are dispensed from Sunday obligation.
In a time of crisis we turn toward God and trust in His Providence.
That said, use “common sense”/applied logic. If you have breathing issues, are sick with anything: stay home.
There is a real concern that folks could be carrying and spreading COVID 19 and not know it. To that end we wash the surfaces with a bleach cleaner and ask you are extra vigilant washing your hands. Avoid touching your face.
We have had historically WORSE flus than COVID 19 but to my knowledge this is the first time Western governments have suggested or even ordered churches closed.
The President has requested that we avoid gathering over 10 people. So we’re stuck with a situation. If we don’t close like the local mainstream diocese we risk being called fools or reckless with the lives of others.
If we close, we risk denying the proper honor due to God, we risk the very salvation of souls if people cannot access the sacraments. We are told by Our Holy Faith to:
Put not your trust in princes: In the children of men, in whom there is no salvation. “
Psalm 145 2-3 DRA
Thus saith the Lord: Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord. “
Jeremiah 17:5 DRA
And a reminder not to put anything before the honor due to God.
… fear ye not them that kill the body, and are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him that can destroy both soul and body in hell. “
Matthew 10:28
As Catholic Christians we seek to be good citizens, in matters pertaining to the salvation of souls only the Church, not the state, has authority.
Whatever, therefore in things human is of a sacred character, whatever belongs either of its own nature or by reason of the end to which it is referred, to the salvation of souls, or to the worship of God, is subject to the power and judgment of the Church … To wish the Church to be subject to the civil power in the exercise of her duty is a great folly and a sheer injustice. Whenever this is the case, order is disturbed, for things natural are put above things supernatural… “
Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, 1885
So, I will offer public Mass until the County orders me otherwise and I will offer private Mass on the same schedule if we receive a directive. And if we have some novus ordo/mainstream friends come in any number, I’ll request permission to add Masses to reduce the person density.
You do not sin by missing Mass during this crisis because dispensation has been given. However many of you, myself included, find the miraculous power of the Mass to be real and to protect us from sin or to its attachment. To watch a Mass online compared to being present is the difference between looking at a picture of the Cross and actually being at the foot of it. So choose BOLDLY. God knows the heart, situation and your priorities.
For he that will save his life, shall lose it: and he that shall lose his life for My sake, shall find it. “
Matthew 16:25
On a side note the Church (not the state per se) closed Lourdes. The optic of that is the leadership does not believe. They make a pretense of religion but deny its power (cf. 2 Tim 3:5) It sums up the current state of affairs in the era of Francis Bergoglio. This plague comes via globalization and coincident with sell-out of the Church of China and the veneration of Pachamama. Our Lord already has the Victory. Do you?
For those interested in the English translation of the Minor Orders a new series of pages has launched: Here.
Lesson from the first letter of St. Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians
1 Cor. 13:1-13
Brethren: If I should speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have charity, I have become as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, yet do not have charity, I am nothing. And if I distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, yet do not have charity, it profits me nothing. Charity is patient, is kind; charity does not envy, is not pretentious, is not puffed up, is not ambitious, is not self-seeking, is not provoked; thinks no evil, does not rejoice over wickedness, but rejoices with the truth; bears with all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Charity never fails, whereas prophecies will disappear, and tongues will cease, and knowledge will be destroyed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when that which is perfect has come, that which is imperfect will be done away with. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away the things of a child. We see now through a mirror in an obscure manner, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I have been known. So there abide faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Continuation ✠ of the Holy Gospel according to Luke
Luke 18:31-43
At that time, Jesus taking to Himself the Twelve said to them, Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem, and all things that have been written by the prophets concerning the Son of Man will be accomplished. For He will be delivered to the Gentiles, and will be mocked and scourged and spit upon; and after they have scourged Him, they will put Him to death; and on the third day He will rise again. And they understood none of these things and this saying was hidden from them, neither did they get to know the things that were being said. Now it came to pass as He drew near to Jericho, that a certain blind man was sitting by the wayside, begging; but hearing a crowd passing by, he inquired what this might be. And they told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by. And he cried out, saying, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me! And they who went in front angrily tried to silence him. But he cried out all the louder, Son of David, have mercy on me! Then Jesus stopped and commanded that he should be brought to Him. And when he drew near, He asked him, saying, What would you have Me do for you? And he said, Lord, that I may see. And Jesus said to him, Receive your sight, your faith has saved you. And at once he received his sight, and followed Him, glorifying God. And all the people upon seeing it gave praise to God.
A relgious order in Scotland got in trouble from the Mainstream RC Church for being… well… Catholic.
Here’s what they said:
” The Holy Roman Church over the last 60 years is being transformed inexorably into the False Church prophesied by Blessed Anna Catherine Emmerich (xxv). The Church’s structures and her teachings have been infected by heresy and wrongdoing, and those who are of the Church of Christ must come out of the False Church, just as the early Christians were miraculously called out of Jerusalem before it was destroyed in A.D. 70. Truly these are desperate times, which require desperate measures. “
Then they were excommunicated, on Christmas Eve.
Here’s their response:
I stand with Westray, the same side as Our Lord and King Jesus- tell Pachamama Church to stuff it. They have no authority to excommunicate anyone outside of Divine Law. Stuff it.