St. Anthony of Padua Chapter, I.E.D.A. Spring, 1996

Petition/Mass News

The Petition effort so far has been meeting with some small success, but so far has not produced any satisfactory results.

We have been informed that we are losing the Mass at St. Louis after May. The Mass has not been well-attended -- no doubt largely because of sudden, unexpected cancellations, and also because of the irregularity of a once-a-month Mass. Those of us who attended that Mass will miss it very much; it will be a sad event to see it go.

Another Mass has been promised, though. It is planned to start around May. Conshohocken has been mentioned as a possible location.

We have still been unable to meet with Cardinal Bevilacqua in person; everything must be done through the Office for Worship. That Office has not been enthusiastic in support of the traditional Mass.

We have been informed that the Mass must begin on a trial basis, once a month (if this is a requirement, we wonder, why wasn’t this the case when the Mass first started at St. John’s). Being once a month will make it almost impossible to have any successful attendance.

We have also been informed that we may not have the Mass during the normal hours for a Mass. We cannot have it before 1:00 P.M. at the absolute earliest. This is said to be because of interference with the regular Mass schedules and Baptisms. Ethnic parishes have many hours available in the morning. But we have been told that it cannot be in any ethnic parish because of plans to close the ethnic parishes.

What’s our next step? We must continue to pray, and to insist that the archdiocese respect our rightful aspiration, and allow us to worship at a traditional Mass regularly, at a reasonable time, in a location not too far away. Until that happens, they will never be rid of us. Perseverance and persistence pays. Remember what happened in the story of the widow and the judge in chapter 18 of the Gospel of St. Luke!

How to Tell if an Organization is Schismatic

There is quite a controversy raging these days over whether or not certain groups, who are also promoting the Latin Mass, are in schism from the One True Church. A wise guideline may be found in the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas. In his Summa Theologica II-II, 39, 1, St. Thomas gives a clear definition of schism. Apply this definition to the groups in question, to see once and for all whether or not they are schismatic!

Accordingly schismatics properly so called are those who willfully and intentionally separate themselves from the unity of the Church; for this is the chief unity, and the particular unity of several individuals among themselves is subordinate to the unity of the Church, even as the mutual adaptation of each member of a natural body is subordinate to the unity of the whole body. Now the unity of the Church consists in two things; namely, in the mutual connection or communion of the members of the Church, and again in the subordination of all the members of the Church to the one head, according to Col. 2:18,19: ‘Puffed up by the sense of his flesh, and not holding the Head, from which the whole body, by joints and bands, being supplied with nourishment and compacted, growth unto the increase of God.’ Now this Head is Christ Himself, Whose viceregent in the Church is the Sovereign Pontiff. Wherefore schismatics are those who refuse to submit to the Sovereign Pontiff, and to hold communion with those members of the Church who acknowledge his supremacy.

Times and Places of the Traditional Mass
in the Phila. Area

OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION CHURCH

7056 Tulip Street
Phila., PA

Every Sunday
2:00 P.M.

ST. LOUIS R.C. CHURCH

Cobbs Creek Parkway & Parmley Ave.
Yeadon, PA

Final Mass
First Sunday of May (May 5)
2:00 P.M.

ST. PATRICK’S CHURCH

15th & King Sts.
Wilmington, DE

2nd, 4th, (and 5th) Sundays
10:00 A.M.
Most Holy Days & Holy Thursday
7:30 P.M.

Mass at St. Louis, Yeadon

THE 1995 CHRISTMAS PARTY

The last highlight of 1995 was the big Christmas Party on Sunday, December 10 at Our Mother of Sorrows in Bridgeport (the same place where Father Oppenheimer of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter came at our 2nd Anniversary celebration on September 17).

For the little children, a Santa Claus was there, who read stories to the children and made balloon animals for them.

Bill & Eleanor Seegers of Folkways in Malvern came to run the main event of the day: an International Folk Dance.

The dances that afternoon included the German couple dance At the Inn to the Crown, the Greek-American circle dance Miserlou, Eastern European circle dances Milanovo and Serbian Girl, and even American dances, like the line dance Fischer’s Hornpipe.

Everyone had a good time learning and doing the dances, and we hope to have another folk dance sometime.

Sex Education

Is your parish elementary school teaching sex education in opposition to the guidelines from the Pontifical Council for the Family?
excerpts from:
THE TRUTH & MEANING OF HUMAN SEXUALITY
THE PONTIFICAL COUNCIL FOR THE FAMILY
Guidelines for Education within the Family
ROME 1995
Children's Principal Stages of Development
1. The Years of Innocence
78. It can be said that a child is in the stage described in John Paul II's words as the years of innocence from about five years of age until puberty ...
This period of tranquility and serenity must never be disturbed by unnecessary information about sex. ... So as not to disturb this important natural phase of growth, parents will recognize that prudent formation in chaste love during this period should be indirect, in preparation for puberty, when direct information will be necessary.
83. ... In some societies today, there are planned and determined attempts to impose premature sex information on children. But, at this stage of development, children are still not capable of fully understanding the value of the affective dimension of sexuality. They cannot understand and control sexual imagery within the proper context of moral principles and, for this reason, they cannot integrate premature sexual information with moral responsibility. Such information tends to shatter their emotional and educational development and to disturb the natural serenity of this period of life. Parents should politely but firmly exclude any attempts to violate children's innocence because such attempts compromise the spiritual, moral and emotional development of growing persons who have a right to their innocence.

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Pat Buchanan attends the Latin Mass in Washington

The St. Anthony of Padua Chapter I.E.D.A. is open to all those in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia who support the promotion of the Traditional Latin Mass, without resorting to schism to do it. Meetings are usually on the second Sunday of each month, in Wayne, at 4:30 (after the 2:00 Latin Mass), followed by a dinner.
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