12:05pm, Monday 11 September: Ss Protus and Hyacinth, martyrs

11:00 Adoration and Confessions

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0911StsProtus&HyacinthMartyrs.pdf

Saints Protus and Hyacinth were Christian martyrs during the persecution of Emperor Valerian. They were servants in the house of St. Philip and were arrested and executed for being Christians. The main source for details on their martyrdoms and acts is considered unreliable, but the relics of St. Hyacinth, known to be entirely authentic, were found in 1845 in the cemetery of St. Philip. Tradition holds that they were brothers and served as chamberlains to Saint Eugenia. They were baptized along with her by Helenus, Bishop of Heliopolis, and devoted themselves zealously to the study of sacred scripture. They lived with the hermits of Egypt and later accompanied Eugenia to Rome.

7:15 am, Friday 8 September: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Litany of Mary during Adoration, Confessions to follow

https://extraordinaryform.org/propers/0908NativityBVM.pdf

Commemorating the Parents of the Immaculate Conception

Saints Anne and Joachim, the parents of the Virgin Mary, according to tradition derived from certain apocryphal writings. St. Anne is one of the patron saints of Brittany and Canada and of women in labour. As the grandparents of Jesus, Saints Anne and Joachim are also considered the patron saints of grandparents.

Information concerning their lives and names is found in the 2nd-century Protevangelium of James (“First Gospel of James”) and the 3rd-century Evangelium de nativitate Mariae(“Gospel of the Nativity of Mary”). According to these noncanonical sources, Anne (Hebrew: Ḥannah) was born in Bethlehem in Judaea. She married Joachim, and, although they shared a wealthy and devout life at Nazareth, they eventually lamented their childlessness. Joachim, reproached at the Temple for his sterility, retreated into the countryside to pray, while Anne, grieved by his disappearance and by her barrenness, solemnly promised God that, if given a child, she would dedicate it to the Lord’s service. Both received the vision of an angel, who announced that Anne would conceive and bear a most wondrous child. The couple rejoiced at the birth of their daughter, whom Anne named Mary. When the child was three years old, Joachim and Anne, in fulfillment of her divine promise, brought Mary to the Temple of Jerusalem, where they left her to be brought up.

The Protevangelium became the foundation for establishing the liturgical feasts of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary (September 8) and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (December 8). The dedication of Mary at the Temple became so important in church doctrine that by 1585 Pope Sixtus V included in the Western church calendar the liturgical feast of the Presentation of the Virgin Mary(November 21). Although this festival originated early in the East, probably at Jerusalem in 543, its first Western observance was recorded in England in the 11th century.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saints-Anne-and-Joachim

Celebrating ‘Latter Marymass’

https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2022/09/celebrating-latter-marymass-nativity-of.html

“St. Monica, St Augustine’s mother: She was a very holy woman, while he had been a very bad son. When they were in Carthage preparing for a voyage to Rome, St. Monica went to a church and spent the night praying there. Augustine took advantage of the opportunity to flee from her and embarked for Rome by himself, leaving her alone.

Afterward she followed him, always weeping and praying for his conversion. Once she went to the Bishop of Milan, St. Ambrose, to ask him if her son would ever convert. He replied to her with those famous words: “Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish.” That is, she would see his rebirth through her intense and profound suffering.

You can imagine her joy when her son converted. St. Augustine and his mother spent some months together as he prepared for his Baptism.” Prof. Corrêa de Oliveira

Devotion to the Holy Face and Our Lady of Sorrows at Holy Family and St Alphonsus parishes 13 – 15 September

“The restoration of Holy families and the society depends on making the devotion to the Holy Face and Our Lady of Sorrows known. The Holy Face is the currency of the kingdom of heaven through which we purchase souls and make reparation for the sins against the first three Commandments that hurt the majesty of God. As our Lady especially reiterated at Fatima, ‘the solution to all the problems of the human race are not in political or economic changes but regeneration of souls’. Rev N. Akindele, pastor

Please tell others and attend as much of this three day event as possible