Our Lady of Lourdes Diocese of Covington’s Latin Mass Parish

1101 AMSTERDAM ROAD PARK HILLS KY 41011

“I do not promise you happiness in this life, only in the next”

Pastor Fr. Shannon Collins, MSJB pastor@ourladyoflourdes.info Associate Pastors Fr. Sean Kopczynski, MSJB assistant@ourladyoflourdes.info Fr. Daniel Kluge dkluge@covdio.org Missionaries in Residence Fr. Jeffery Jambon

Parish Office 859.291.1854 Parish Council parish.council@ourladyoflourdes.info Sacramental Emergency 859.444.8648 Confessions Sunday: 45 minutes before Masses Monday—Saturday: 30 minutes before Masses Saturday afternoon: 3:00-4:30 pm

Holy Day Masses 6:30 am, 12:10 pm, 7:00 pm Compline & Devotions 8:00 pm daily Baptism and Marriages All Sacraments at Our Lady of Lourdes are performed according to the usus antiquior of the Roman Rite, with the 1962 liturgical books being normative.

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17th Sunday after Pentecost September 16th, 2018

Mass Calendar & Intentions SUNDAY September 16: 17th Sunday after Pentecost

8:00 AM 10:00 AM

In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious Pro populo

MONDAY September 17: Stigmata of St. Francis 6:30 AM

12:10 PM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious (+) Chester Kusmitch

TUESDAY September 18: St. Joseph of Cupertino, Confessor 6:30 AM

12:10 PM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious (+) Jose Salguero

WEDNESDAY September 19: Ember Wednesday 6:30 AM

12:10 PM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious Fr. Alan Mackey

THURSDAY September 20: SS. Eustace & Companions, Martyrs 6:30 AM

12:10 PM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious Gaylord Barnett

FRIDAY September 21: St. Matthew, Apostle & Evangelist 6:30 AM

12:10 PM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious Brooke Elizabeth Yan

SATURDAY September 22: Ember Saturday 8:00 AM In gratitude for the gift of priests and religious

T. MATTHEW, APOSTLE AND EVANGELIST (September 21) Most of you have either heard of or even taken Bible Study courses. Well, you have probably heard from many so-called modern Scripture scholars that St. Mark wrote the First Gospel and that St. Matthew, or more likely his

disciples well after the death of this apostle, using both Mark and something called “Q,” compiled another Gospel. These scholars tells us that St. Mark’s Gospel is so primitive, pristine, and pure, whereas St. Matthew’s Gospel is so filled with additives to Christianity like the Papal Office and a Visible Church and Ecclesiastical authority. Of course, such statements not only go against common sense...for this thing called “Q,” with supposed quotations of Jesus, doesn’t even exist, but it is also against tradition. I mean, there is a reason the Church lists the Gospels in a particular order - Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, because that was the order they were written in! If you just read the lives of the saints, you will realize that all of the early apostles eventually used St. Matthew’s Gospel to preach from. St. Bartholomew, the Roman Martyrology tells us, took this Gospel Book to India and Armenia, and St. Barnabas, a companion of St. Paul, was buried with St. Matthew’s Gospel clutched in his hands. Tradition tells us that St. Matthew, before he went off to preach in that territory assigned to him, first wrote his Gospel in Hebrew. I have to pose that question often asked by Vladamir Lenin, who benefits from this? That is, who benefits from switching the order of the

Weekly Financial Report Week of Sunday September 9, 2018

Sunday Collection: Checks

Cash & Coin

$1620.00

$655.00 Online & Other Donations

Candles $320.00

$35.55

TOTAL $2630.55

! The School of Virtue is closed today. ! There will be a parish council meeting on the evening of Tuesday, September 18. If parishioners would like to contact the parish council members to share a concern, then please use the email address for the parish council listed in our bulletin. ! We will be having an Octoberfest celebration the First Sunday of October. Please help in making that potluck and entertainment event go well by seeking to help. ! Remember that there is a place to taking crying children down in the undercroft below the church. There is a monitor downstairs where the Holy Mass can be viewed.

GOD, WHO DOST NOT DESIRE THE DEATH OFTHE SINNER, but rather that he beconverted and live, grant we beseechThee, through the intercession of

BlessedMary,everVirgin,andofalltheSaints,anincrease of laborers for the Church of Covingtonand theMissionaries of St. John theBaptist,who,co-operatingwithChrist,maygive themselves forthesalvationofsouls.GrantthisthroughthesameJesus Christ, Thy Son, Our Lord, Who liveth andreignethwithTheeintheunionoftheHolyGhost,worldwithoutend.Amen.

AJESTIC QUEEN OF HEAVEN AND MISTRESS OF THE ANGELS, thou didst receive from God the power and commission to crush the head of Satan; wherefore we humbly

beseech thee, send forth the legions of Heaven, that, under thy command, they may seek out all evil spirits, engage them everywhere in battle, curb their insolence, and hurl them back into the pit of Hell. “Who is like unto God?” O good and tender Mother, thou shalt ever be our hope and the object of our love. O Mother of God, send forth the holy Angels to defend us and drive far from us the cruel foe. Holy Angels and Archangels, defend us and keep us. Amen.

STATEMENTOFSPECIALPARISHPROJECTFUNDS:RENOVATIONOFTHEUNDERCROFT

FundsRaised

SundayDonations $11,643DPAARebates $6,178Grants $10,000

Total $27,821

Expenses*

Sink(paintroom) $377 StormWindows $2,708 GothicLightFixtures $9,159

Total $12,244

UsableFunds $15,577

*N.B. Labor costs not included as itwas provided by paid employees,volunteers,andotherspaidbyMSJBsuchasHennPlumbing.

To dress becomingly for God and neighbor, and in keeping with the reverence due to the Blessed Sacrament, kindly refrain from wearing shorts, tee-shirts, tank-tops, revealing blouses, sleeveless or backless dresses, or form-fitting clothing of any sort. Please wear dresses and skirts that fall below the knee when sitting even with leggings. With due regard to time and circumstance, all are encouraged to wear decorous attire befitting sacred and divine worship.

Gospels? St. Mark supposedly being the First Gospel was put forward by German Bible Scholars in the late 19th century under the direction of Otto Von Bismark, the Iron Chancellor of the New Germany. Bismark, seeking to unite his country evermore, wished to remove any allegiance Catholics had to the Pope in Rome. Therefore, if he could get Catholics to question the fact that Jesus founded the Church upon St. Peter and to question - or even doubt —the fact that Catholic Church and Peter and His successors were the highest authority on earth, then maybe his Kulterkampf— Bismark’s culture war against the Catholic Church— would be successful. St. Matthew’s Gospel posed a huge problem, especially chapter 16 where our dear Lord turns and says to Simon bar Jona—Tu es Petrus... You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build My Church. And yes, in Matthew c. 18, our Lord speaks of the Catholic Church as the final judge and authority, for if a person will not even listen to the Church, then let him be treated as a heathen and a tax-collector...anathema sit. Without any proof and going against ecclesiastical tradition, Bismark and his underlings at various German Universities largely succeeded. Today, in many schools and seminaries, and in nearly every Bible study book, Mark is seen as the first Gospel and the idea of Jesus establishing the Catholic Church and the Papal Office is often seen as pure fiction—Fr. Shannon Collins, msjb, pastor.

Ways you can help offset the costs of our building projects: (1) Designate the MSJB on your Kroger Rewards card—our number is 16314. So far this year Kroger has given us $531.75. Please review your Kroger Card designation as they often require yearly renewal even if nothing changes. (2) If shopping at Amazon, start with the Amazon Smile button on our website. So far this year Amazon Smile has given us $527.88. (3) Simply write a check to the MSJB for the building fund as they are the owner of the property and the ones making the purchases and improvements apart from the Special Parish Project. May God reward you!