Historic St. Anthony Catholic Church
258 Ohio, Wichita, Ks
2nd St. & Ohio
Two blocks east of Old Town
Sunday Mass at 1:oo
English/Latin missals provided. Join us for coffee and donuts after mass downstairs in the St. Clair/Sunshine room, south exterior basement entrance.
Pastor of St. Anthony Parish: Fr. Ben Nguyen
EFLR Celebrants: Fr. John Jirak, Fr Nicholas Voelker
Master of Ceremonies: Tony Strunk
Choir Director: Bernie Dette


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Fr. Nicholas Voelker celebrates Low Mass Saturdays at 8:00 a.m., St. Mary's Catholic Church, 106 East 8th street, Newton. There is no mass this Saturday, January 30, 2016.


Saturday, February 26, 2011

Post #149

Topics: James Spencer: Book Review...St. Anthony Parishioners: On Mission

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Mr. Jim Spencer is back with another book review. Thank you Jim! Mr. Spencer was the original writer for this blog and the intellectual forerunner to my present day meandering "authorship".  

A reader, noting the planned gnashing of teeth in place of  Latin Mass today, was wondering how one actually went about gnashing their teeth. I didn't have an answer other than to be sure to take out dentures first.

...and now for the necessaries.
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est! is strictly a private layman's endeavor.

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BOOK REVIEW
A.M.D.G.                               By James Spencer                              B.V.M.H.
Saints to Help the Sick and the Dying, by Msgr. Edmond J. Goebel, Ph.D.  Originally published in 1937 by Benziger Brothers, NY; re-published in 2010 by Preserving Christian Publications, Inc., Boonville, NY; (315) 942-6338; www.pcpbooks.net.  ISBN 978-1-4507-4393-8.  Hardcover, 5” by 7.25”, 129 pages, $14.00.

As the title suggests, this book contains brief bios of many saints the Church recommends to the sick and dying.  But it contains so much more that you should consider it a small sick-room reference book, as the dust jacket picture of Jesus and Mary ministering to the dying St. Joseph suggests.

Chapter 1, “Resignation,” offers a consoling and truly Catholic view of suffering as a sharing in the Cross of our Lord.  This is followed by a prayer of submission to God’s Will.  The chapter ends with a series of numbered points to remember and recall when suffering.

Chapter 2, “The Anointing,” explains the Last Sacrament, Extreme Unction, and then tells how it is administered and what is necessary for its proper administration.

Chapter 3, “Closing Life,” gives the recorded last words of many people, some saints.  Examples: St. Anthony of Padua, “I see my God.  He calls me to Him”; Pope St. Gregory VII , “I have loved justice and hated iniquity; therefore I die in exile”; Little Flower, “Oh, I love Him!  My God, I love Thee!”; King St. Louis IX, “I will enter now into the house of the Lord”; Pope St. Pius V, “Lord, increase my faith, but increase my patience too!” 

But this chapter also encloses the frightening words of a few dying “unholy” souls.  Examples:  Julian the Apostate, “Thou has conquered, O Gallilean”; Queen Elizabeth I of England, “All my possessions for a moment of time”; Cardinal Wolsey, “Had I but served my God with half the zeal that I have served my king, He would not have left me in my grey hairs” (as Henry VIII had).      

Chapter 4, “The Hour of Death,” offers the “Litany for the Dying” followed by a series of other prayers recommended for the dying and those attending the dying.

Chapter 5, “The Last Agony,” starts with a series of short prayers those attending a dying person should repeat so the dying person can hear them, even if he can no longer pronounce the words.  It also has a summary of everything those attending the dying should have and do.  It even gives instructions for attending to a dying non-Catholic, including emergency baptism directions.

Chapter 6, “Other Sacraments,” contains a brief tutorial on the other six Sacraments of the Church.

Chapter 7, “The Saints” presents saints whose intercession the sick and dying should invoke for various illnesses and injuries. For each listed saint, this book has a brief bio and indicates the malady or (more often) maladies for which the Church has recommended said saint’s intercession.

Frankly, it would be a challenge to medical science to find a health problem for which the Church doesn’t offer at least one “designated saint.”  We have saints for severe headaches, typhoid and other fevers, colic, sore eyes, pestilence, bruises, gout, diseases of the throat, apoplexy, poison, diabolic possession, deafness, tuberculosis, plague, cancer, insanity, rabies, paralysis, epilepsy, childbirth, hydrophobia, rheumatism, consumptions, ulcers, lumbago, gallstones, hemorrhage, cramps, cholera, stomach trouble, nervous disorders, and, and, and . . . and even snakebites!

Many of these health problems have multiple designated saints.  For example, if you are ever bitten by a snake, you have four --- count ‘em, one, two, three, four . . . saints waiting to hear from you!  These are not, of course, offered for the purpose of shopping around, but for your comfort when you feel the need for lots of help.  For example, if I were ever bitten by a poisonous snake, I would want all the saintly assistance I could drum up.   Besides. I would probably pray more devoutly than I ever have before and would appreciate multiple heavenly witnesses.  

Chapter 8, “Prayers and Devotions for the Sick and Dying,” offers many prayers, both for the sufferers and for their attendants.  The chapter closes with several pages of appropriate ejaculations.

Every Catholic home should have this book, and every Catholic should read it.  No one will live on earth forever.  Who knows when his time will come, or when the time of a friend or family member needing his assistance will come?

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Copyright, 2011, 
 by James B. Spencer.
 First Serial Rights    
 Word Count: 761


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St. Anthony Parishioners on Mission
Picture Submitted by Larry Bethel

Here is a picture of St Anthony parishioners, the Odilio and Stacey Alvarez family who are  on a 2 year mission.

From their Facebook page:

"Our last full day Sunday at Big Woods in Louisiana :( Head out to Houston on Monday and will be in Manila on March 2nd! Thank you, Jesus! Praying for a safe, easy, and trouble-free plane ride!'

What dedication, bravery and true service. Please keep this beautiful young family in your prayers and follow Mrs. Alvarez at her blog Me in He: With Him for Him, excerpt below.


The Mission of Motherhood

"But she will be saved through motherhood..."1 Timothy 2:15 


I have always taken my job as a mother very seriously. There is nothing else I have really ever wanted to be. I thoroughly enjoy children! From the time I was 12 years old until I graduated high school, most of my weekends and summer breaks were spent baby-sitting. Even after high school I worked for a nanny service and also taught in various preschools and daycares. I was blessed to marry young, and while I waited anxiously to become pregnant, I nannied for a family with two boys. When I did discover three months later that I was expecting, I began to make plans to be a stay-at-home mom. I remember writing to a mother whom I had worked for previously to happily announce the news that I would no longer be a "mere substitute" but would have the blessing of becoming a real mother! My "boss" at the time could not understand why I wanted to stay home when she was offering for me to bring my baby along to nanny her boys at her house. Wasn't it basically the same thing? Besides I would be getting paid!

Honestly, after so many years of "substitute" mothering I knew that no matter how much a person loves children, she can never replace the most important person in a child's life--his mother! My very first baby-sitting job was spent holding a sweet baby girl - no more than two months old - who cried hysterically for practically the whole time her mother was gone. This was expected by the parents since the baby could not ever be consoled by anyone but the mother; but they were told they needed a date night alone each week. They said they didn't mind her crying if I didn't and were surprised to come home to not find me frantic like other sitters before me had been. Really my heart was breaking for her. I was only 12. Years later I left a job at a daycare in tears after only one week because my authority in the classroom was constantly being undermined by a certain child's mother who happened to be the daycare director. At every job, no matter how much I wanted to, I was unable to discipline and teach the children as I saw fit because it wasn't the way the mother would have me do it. And even if my words were true, the children wouldn't believe me until they consulted Mom. Although the children always enjoyed me and I them, I just wasn't the same as their mother........................................................

Please continue reading and follow Stacie Alvarez at her blog

Thursday, February 24, 2011

post #148

Topics: One of the Last Things: Dust Thou Art...Our Collective Sadness: Commence Wailing

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In case you haven't noticed I have been posting more frequently but with less content. This really works well with my busy schedule and I enjoy it so much more. Please send me some articles, thoughts or original writing to publish.

...and now for the necessaries.
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est! is strictly a private layman's endeavor.



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Dust Thou Art
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J.
Homolitic and Pastoral Review


Ash Wednesday usually occurs in February, but this year it comes later, on March 9. “Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return.” The Church offers this prayer for each one of us as the priest traces a black cross on our foreheads with the ashes from burnt palm branches. I wonder how often we reflect, especially when we are in good health and are busy with many good works, that a day will come, perhaps very soon, when we will die and our bodies will be placed in a cold casket six feet under the lush green grass in the local Catholic cemetery. I should ask myself now, “Where will I be then?”

As Catholics we should think about death each day, since it is included in many of our prayers. The Mass itself is a memorial and a re-presentation of the death of Jesus. A crucifix reminds us of the death of Christ. In the Liturgy of the Hours we are constantly reminded of the death of the Lord, of the death of the wicked, and of our own certain death. The Church, making use of the Psalms, reminds us over and over again that our life is fragile and fleeting, and that it will disappear like the morning mist.

Man naturally fears death. He knows it is certain, but he does not like to think about it. Contemporary American culture trivializes death in the media because it does not want to confront the awesome reality of death. It is strange, is it not? Scores of murders and deaths are shown on TV each day, but rarely, if ever, is the reality of death given serious treatment.

Our modern culture tries to create illusions of immortality. We see this in film and TV stars, in sports heroes, in popular politicians. But where are they now? Picking just a few well-known names at random, we can ask: where are Abraham Lincoln, John Wayne, FDR, Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, and Ronald Reagan, and all the rest who have gone before us? During their lifetimes they were thought to be important persons. Now they are gone, and most people pay little or no attention to them.

What a cruel fate awaits rich, powerful and famous men and women who appear to be something but who, whether sooner or later, are swallowed up by the jaws of death. Many of them do not seem to know that death is the fruit of sin, that “the wages of sin is death” (Rom 6:23). And we Catholics—priests, religious and laity—are we any different? Do we heed the warnings of the Bible and the teaching of the Church that death is the punishment for sin—the sin of our first parents, Adam and Eve, and our own personal sins? Daily the Church urges us to repentance and conversion of heart, especially during Lent. Do we listen and heed her motherly warnings?

Just think about your relatives and friends who have died during the past few years. Where are they now? The Church teaches infallibly that there are only three possibilities right now before the Second Coming of Christ: purgatory, heaven and hell. Do you ever think seriously about the certain fact that you will be with those deceased friends and relatives one future day—perhaps sooner than you think? Do you pray for them and gain indulgences for them in case they are in purgatory?

The closer one comes to God in love and the more one submits himself to the will of God, the more one becomes like God in holiness, and the less fear one feels in the face of death. Actually, many of the saints have longed to die, to be dissolved that they might be united eternally with Christ. St. Paul said, “For me to live is Christ, to die is gain…. My desire is to depart and to be with Christ” (Phil 1:21-23). A daily awareness that we shall soon be judged by the glorified Christ for our words and deeds injects humility into our lives, and spurs us on to a more intense practice of the love of God and neighbor.


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Our Collective Sadness

Since there will be no Latin Mass this Sunday the 27th I have been suggesting, with a great deal of amusement, that we meet at the regular time and commence to weep and gnash teeth. Little did I realize that this was just about a past time in itself throughout the bible. I guess without cable (or blogging) what else is there to do?


And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 8:11-12).

The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:41-42).

So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 13:49-50).

And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 22:12-13).

The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 24:50-51).

For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath. And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (Matthew 25:29-30).

But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out (Luke 13:27-28).

Ouch...I think I bit my tongue.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Post #147

Topics: Local Altars: Wichita State University Newman Center St. Paul Parish and Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Divine Mercy...No Latin Mass at St. Anthony: Sunday February 27th, 

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...and now for the necessaries.
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est! is strictly a private layman's endeavor.

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Altars
Wichita State University Newman Center, St. Paul Parish
"Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up to salvation..." 1 Peter 2:2
Constant educating of our minds and the conversion of our hearts.




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Discalced Carmelite Monastery of Divine Mercy and Our Lady of Guadalupe

Mission statement/description
These sisters' mission is a life of sacrifice joyfully dedicated to consoling the heart of our God, so offended by His ungrateful creatures, and to intercession for the whole world, but especially priests. This is a cloistered community in which the sisters live their lives for God and for His Church. The call to Carmel is a call to serve the Church through prayer and sacrifice. The sisters' charism is guided by their foundress, St. Teresa of Avila, and by St. John of the Cross. The essence of the Carmelite contemplative life is: living in the presence of God, in imitation of their most pure Mother Mary and the prophet Elijah, their spiritual founder who lived 900 years before Christ.

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No Latin Mass at St. Anthony
Sunday February 27th

There will be no 8:00 Traditional Latin Mass at St. Anthony this Sunday February 27th due to Fr. Hay's trip to Clear Creek Abbey. Substitutes were unavailable.

 Instead we will meet for wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Monday, February 21, 2011

Post #146

Topics: Address to Roman Catholics 1790: George Washington

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Happy Presidents Day! This day was one of my favorites as a boy, actually as it was back then, separate celebrations for Washington and Lincoln. The change occurred in the early 70's? Posted today is a letter from George Washington to Roman Catholics. Interesting enough, Catholicism was already long present and strong in the South and Southwest geographic (North) America by the Spanish, long before Washington was a twinkle in his father's eye.


...and now for the necessaries.
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est! is strictly a private layman's endeavor.


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George Washington Addresses Roman Catholics in America,
March 15, 1790
Beliefnet


One of Washington's greatest contributions to religious freedom was his insistence, as Commander of the Continental Army, that Catholics be treated as equal American citizens.

"While I now receive with much satisfaction your congratulations on my being called, by an unanimous vote, to the first station in my country; I cannot but duly notice your politeness in offering an apology for the unavoidable delay. As that delay has given you an opportunity of realizing, instead of anticipating, the benefits of the general government, you will do me the justice to believe, that your testimony of the increase of the public prosperity, enhances the pleasure which I should otherwise have experienced from your affectionate address.
I feel that my conduct, in war and in peace, has met with more general approbation than could reasonably have been expected and I find myself disposed to consider that fortunate circumstance, in a great degree, resulting from the able support and extraordinary candour of my fellow-citizens of all denominations.

And I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revolution, and the establishment of their government; or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed
The prospect of national prosperity now before us is truly animating, and ought to excite the exertions of all good men to establish and secure the happiness of their country, in the permanent duration of its freedom and independence. America, under the smiles of a Divine Providence, the protection of a good government, and the cultivation of manners, morals, and piety, cannot fail of attaining an uncommon degree of eminence, in literature, commerce, agriculture, improvements at home and respectability abroad.
As mankind become more liberal they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality. And I presume that your fellow-citizens will not forget the patriotic part which you took in the accomplishment of their Revolution, and the establishment of their government; or the important assistance which they received from a nation in which the Roman Catholic faith is professed.

I thank you, gentlemen, for your kind concern for me. While my life and my health shall continue, in whatever situation I may be, it shall be my constant endeavour to justify the favourable sentiments which you are pleased to express of my conduct. And may the members of your society in America, animated alone by the pure spirit of Christianity, and still conducting themselves as the faithful subjects of our free government, enjoy every temporal and spiritual felicity."

G. Washington

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Sunday, February 20, 2011

Post #145

Topics: Septuagesima Sunday




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...and now for the necessaries.
Please note: St. Anthony Catholic Church is one of two local churches celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass (EFLR) in the Wichita area. Though this blog is loosely centered around this parish and it's members, Venite Missa Est! is by no means, in any way an official voice of, or for, St. Anthony Parish or the Diocese of Wichita. Venite Missa Est! is strictly a private layman's endeavor.

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What is Septuagesima Sunday?

Before the calendar was revised to create Ordinary Time (What about the liturgical year is just ordinary?) the Sundays leading up to Lent had much more interesting names than "The Seventh Sunday of Ordinary Time."

Say good bye to Alleluia

This Sunday, the first of three before Ash Wednesday, was called Septuagesima Sunday. It was the first warning of the approach of Lent. Actually, the warning began on the Saturday before when the Alleluia was used for the last time during the Divine Office and not again until the Easter Vigil.

The oldest known instance of this tradition is found in an antiphonarium of the ninth century written by St. Cornelius of Compiegne:


May the good angel of the Lord accompany thee, Alleluia, and give thee a good journey, that thou mayst come back to us in joy, Alleluia, Alleluia. (translated from the Latin)

Other instances of this tradition can be found in Spain and in Germany during the Middle Ages.

In France in the thirteenth century and beyond, the Vespers before Septuagesima Sunday contained this verse:


We are unworthy to sing a ceaseless Alleluia. Our sins bid us interrupt our Alleluia. The time is at hand when it behoves us to bewail our crimes.

The extraordinary form of the liturgy today ends vespers with the following verse:


Let us bless the Lord, Alleluia, Alleluia.

Thanks be to God, Alleluia, Alleluia.

The alleluia isn't said again until the Easter Vigil.

A warning from the Liturgy

The other sign on Septuagesima about the approach of Lent is found in the Introit where the focus is on death and hell and in the collects that ask for salvation.

This also was the first Sunday when violet was worn at Mass.

In the Greek Church this Sunday is called Prophone which means "proclamation." This is because during the Divine Liturgy the upcoming Lenten fast is announced. It is also called the Sunday of the Prodigal Sun because that is the Gospel read on this day as a reminder to sinners to reconcile with the Church.

Are you ready for Lent? It's time to prepare!