July 26th, 2010 by admin
A Mass will be offered on the feast of the Assumption, Sunday 15th August 12. 30PM at St Michael’s Remeura by Fr. Rizzo FSSP with the blessing of Bishop Dunn and kind assistance of parish priest Mons. Arahill. All welcome!
The feast of the Assumption is traditionally celebrated in a special way if possible by EDSNZ, as Our Lady of the Assumption is patron of New Zealand.
On 13 January 1838 as the founder of the New Zealand Catholic Church Bishop Pompallier offered his first Mass in Hokianga, he consecrated the Mission in New Zealand, Aotearoa to Our Lady of the Assumption.
The first Mass celebrated in Onehunga, Auckland was on 21st November 1847 and the Parish of Our Lady of the Assumption was established there 1850.
April 7th, 2010 by admin
Masses are being arranged for the visit to the North Island by Fr. Clement (Sons of the Holy Redeemer – Transalpine Redemptorists).
Mass at Rotorua is scheduled for Saturday, 1st May, 7:30pm at St. Michael’s Church (refer. Fr Mulholland).
A sung Mass with choir will take place at Devonport, Auckland will take place Sunday, 2nd May, 12 noon at St. Francis de Sales Church (with kind permission of Bishop Dunn and parish administrator Fr. Sullivan).
April 4th, 2010 by admin
“WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH PRIEST”
Homily on Good Friday 2010 in Saint Peter’s Basilica by Father Raniero Cantalamessa, ofmcap [excerpts]
“We have a great High Priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God”: thus begins the passage from the Letter to the Hebrews that we heard in the second reading. In the Year for Priests, the liturgy for Good Friday enables us to go back to the historical source of the Christian priesthood. It is the source of both the realizations of the priesthood: the ministerial, of bishops and presbyters, and the universal of all the faithful. This one also, in fact, is founded on the sacrifice of Christ that, Revelation says, “loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father” (Revelation 1:5-6). Hence, it is of vital importance to understand the nature of the sacrifice and of the priesthood of Christ because it is from them that priests and laity, in a different way, must bear the stamp and seek to live the exigencies…
The sacrifice of Christ contains a formidable message for today’s world…
I received in this week the letter of a Jewish friend and, with his permission, I share here a part of it.
He said: “I am following with indignation the violent and concentric attacks against the Church, the Pope and all the faithful by the whole world. The use of stereotypes, the passing from personal responsibility and guilt to a collective guilt remind me of the more shameful aspects of anti-Semitism. Therefore I desire to express to you personally, to the Pope and to the whole Church my solidarity as Jew of dialogue and of all those that in the Jewish world (and there are many) share these sentiments of brotherhood. Our Passover and yours are undoubtedly different, but we both live with Messianic hope that surely will reunite us in the love of our common Father. I wish you and all Catholics a Good Easter.”
And also we Catholics wish our Jewish brothers a Good Passover. We do so with the words of their ancient teacher Gamaliel, entered in the Jewish Passover Seder and from there passed into the most ancient Christian liturgy:
“He made us pass
From slavery to liberty,
From sadness to joy,
From mourning to celebration,
From darkness to light,
From servitude to redemption
Because of this before him we say: Alleluia.”[5]
Acknowledgment to Robert Moynihan reporting from Rome
March 12th, 2010 by admin
The launch of an inquiry by German Catholic officials has prompted more venom from the world’s press to be directed at the Holy Father.
The inquiry concerns the Pope’s 86 year old brother who admitted he slapped children years ago when “the slapping of students and other forms of corporal punishment were common in Catholic schools in Germany and other countries in that era.” [as it was in most schools of most countries of the world]
“There is certainly the suspicion that there are some out there out to damage the church and the pope,” said a Vatican official, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the matter”.
All this was happening whilst the Holy Father was holding his usual Wednesday General Audience [Wednesday, March 10, 2010]. in which he is reported as stating publicly the fundamental principle explaining his own papacy.
In this General Audience the Pope said that the essence of his task in governing the Church, is to orient souls to Christ, to “win souls for Christ”.
Benedict suggested that he is guiding the Church just as Bonaventure tried to guide the Franciscan Order in the late 1200s, “not only through commands and structures, but through guiding and enlightening souls, orienting them to Christ.”
This is said to be the center of Benedict’s pontificate [which it is also claimed] that his opponents are trying to conceal, and overshadow, with allegations of scandal.The Pope also said the following in this audience:
“We know, in fact, how after the Second Vatican Council, some were convinced that everything should be new, that there should be another Church, that the pre-conciliar Church was finished and that we would have another, totally “other” Church. An anarchic utopianism!
And thanks be to God, the wise helmsmen of Peter’s Barque, Pope Paul VI and Pope John Paul II, on one hand defended the novelty of the council and on the other, at the same time, defended the uniqueness and continuity of the Church, which is always a Church of sinners and always a place of grace…
Dear friends, let us take up the invitation addressed to us by St. Bonaventure, the Seraphic Doctor, and let us enter the school of the divine Teacher: We listen to his Word of life and truth, which resounds in the depth of our soul. Let us purify our thoughts and actions, so that he can dwell in us, and we can hear his divine voice, which draws us toward true happiness.” Pope Benedict XVI, General Audience, Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Acknowledgment to Robert Moynihan of Inside the Vatican.
February 14th, 2010 by admin
This year, I would like to offer you some reflections on the great theme of justice, beginning from the Pauline affirmation: “The justice of God has been manifested through faith in Jesus Christ” (cf. Rm 3, 21-22).
Justice: “dare cuique suum”
First of all, I want to consider the meaning of the term “justice,” which in common usage implies “to render to every man his due,” according to the famous expression of Ulpian, a Roman jurist of the third century. In reality, however, this classical definition does not specify what “due” is to be rendered to each person. What man needs most cannot be guaranteed to him by law. In order to live life to the full, something more intimate is necessary that can be granted only as a gift: we could say that man lives by that love which only God can communicate since He created the human person in His image and likeness…
Saint Augustine notes: if “justice is that virtue which gives every one his due … where, then, is the justice of man, when he deserts the true God?” (De civitate Dei, XIX, 21).
What is the Cause of Injustice?…
Injustice, the fruit of evil, does not have exclusively external roots; its origin lies in the human heart, where the seeds are found of a mysterious cooperation with evil…
What then is the justice of Christ? Above all, it is the justice that comes from grace, where it is not man who makes amends, heals himself and others…
Conversion to Christ, believing in the Gospel, ultimately means this: to exit the illusion of self-sufficiency in order to discover and accept one’s own need – the need of others and God, the need of His forgiveness and His friendship…
May this penitential season be for every Christian a time of authentic conversion and intense knowledge of the mystery of Christ, who came to fulfill every justice.
BENEDICTUS PP. XVI
Libreria Editrice Vaticana
December 17th, 2009 by admin
Fr. Clement [Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer] is the priest for the pilgrimage to Jerusalem Wanganui 8th to 10th of January 2010.
Cost is $150 for accomodation and meals at Mother Aubert’s historic convent [comfortable and beautifully renovated]
Limited places available – further inquiries and reservations to Secretary asap.
October 15th, 2009 by admin
Yesterday 14th October, feast of St Callistus Pope and martyr, Fr. John Rizzo, traditional priest member of FSSP, was invited, by a faculty member of the New Zealand Good Shepherd National Seminary College [GSC], to lecture on the Holy Eucharist .
He did so by offering the Holy Sacrifice according to the Extraordinary Form in the College Chapel, for the class on the Eucharist and for other Seminarians present.
Fr. Rizzo then explained this form of the Latin Rite in the lecture room, as part of the two hour Theological lecture.
This compulsory Eucharistic Course forms part of priestly training for both Diocesan and the Marist Order Seminarians. The faculty Theologian concerned also teaches Latin at the same College [GSC].
October 11th, 2009 by admin
Holy Mass will be offered by Fr. Rizzo FSSP, according to the 1962 Missal;
Good Shepherd National Catholic Theological College Chapel:
20 Ponsonby Road
Newton
Auckland 1021
New Zealand
http://www.gsc.ac.nz
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14TH 2009 AT 1.30PM – ALL WELCOME!
October 10th, 2009 by admin
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