Sta. Cruz Church Main Altar Under Renovation

The main altar of the Sta. Cruz Church in Manila is having a renovation.











But alas look at the temporary altar, look and judge.






















Take away from us our sins, O Lord, we beseech you, that we may enter with pure minds into the Holy of Holies. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.

3rd Anniversary of the Summorum Pontificum

What: Traditional Latin Low Mass for the 3rd Anniversary of the Summorum Pontificum in the Diocese of Pasig - Immaculate Conception Cathedral

The mass that will be offered tommorow (July7) will be a votive Mass in honor of St. Joseph

VOTIVE MASS IN HONOR OF SAINT JOSEPH

Who: The Mass Celebrant will be Rev. Fr. Mark Sese, parochial vicar and vice chancellor of the Diocese of Pasig

When: July 7, 2010

Time: 4:00 pm

Where: The Baptism of Our Lord Chapel - ICC Baptistery

Everyone is cordially invited!

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July 6 - Feast of St. Maria Goretti, virgin & martyr

Feastday: July 6
Patron of youth, young women, purity, and victims of rape
b: 1890 d: 1902

Born in Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy, on October 16 1890; her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. Her father died of malaria and her mother had to struggle to feed her children.

In 1902 an eighteen-year-old neighbor, Alexander, grabbed her from her steps and tried to rape her. When Maria said that she would rather died than submit, Alexander began stabbing her with a knife.

As she lay in the hospital, she forgave Alexander before she died. Her death didn't end her forgivness, however.

Alexander was captured and sentenced to thirty years. He was unrepentant until he had a dream that he was in a garden. Maria was there and gave him flowers. When he woke, he was a changed man, repenting of his crime and living a reformed life. When he was released after 27 years he went directly to Maria's mother to beg her forgiveness, which she gave. "If my daughter can forgive him, who am I to withold forgiveness," she said.

When Maria was declared a saint in 1950, Alexander was there in the St. Peter's crowd to celebrate her canonization. She was canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1950 for her purity as model for youth.

She is called a martyr because she fought against Alexander's attempts at sexual assault. However, the most important aspect of her story is her forgiveness of her attacker -- her concern for her enemy extending even beyond death. Her feast day is July 6. St. Maria Goretti is the patroness of youth and for the victims of rape.

SIXTH SUNDAY after PENTECOST

SIXTH SUNDAY after PENTECOST 2 Cl G
Gl Cr Pr of the Holy Trinity
Sunday Office

Easter time has passed but its spirit should never pass. Christ died once and now live His glorious unending life. Having risen from sin, let us strive to live in union with Christ the new life of holiness, sustaining ourselves by the Holy Eucharist prefigured in the miracle of the multiplication of the loaves.

St. Irenaeus, bishop & martyr

3rd Cl.
Red

St. Irenaeus was a disciple of St. Polycarp of Smyrna. His treatises did much to stamp out the gnostic sects. He succeeded St. Pothinus in the See of Lyons and died during the persecution of Septimus Severus in 202.

July 3 - St. Thomas, apostle & martyr

St. Thomas was a Jew, called to be one of the twelve Apostles. He was a dedicated but impetuous follower of Christ. When Jesus said He was returning to Judea to visit His sick friend Lazarus, Thomas immediately exhorted the other Apostles to accompany Him on the trip which involved certain danger and possible death because of the mounting hostility of the authorities. At the Last Supper, when Christ told His Apostles that He was going to prepare a place for them to which they also might come because they knew both the place and the way, Thomas pleaded that they did not understand and received the beautiful assurance that Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. But St. Thomas is best known for his role in verifying the Resurrection of his Master. Thomas' unwillingness to believe that the other Apostles had seen their risen Lord on the first Easter Sunday merited for him the title of "doubting Thomas." Eight days later, on Christ's second apparition, Thomas was gently rebuked for his scepticism and furnished with the evidence he had demanded - seeing in Christ's hands the point of the nails and putting his fingers in the place of the nails and his hand into His side. At this, St. Thomas became convinced of the truth of the Resurrection and exclaimed: "My Lord and My God," thus making a public Profession of Faith in the Divinity of Jesus. St. Thomas is also mentioned as being present at another Resurrection appearance of Jesus - at Lake Tiberias when a miraculous catch of fish occurred. This is all that we know about St. Thomas from the New Testament. Tradition says that at the dispersal of the Apostles after Pentecost this saint was sent to evangelize the Parthians, Medes, and Persians; he ultimately reached India, carrying the Faith to the Malabar coast, which still boasts a large native population calling themselves "Christians of St. Thomas." He capped his left by shedding his blood for his Master, speared to death at a place called Calamine. His feast day is July 3rd and he is the patron of architects.

St. Bernardino Realino

Feastday: July 2
1616

St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went on to study medicine at the University of Bologna, but after three years he switched to law and received his doctorate in 1563. Word of his learning, dedication, and legal brilliance spread rapidly, and in 1554 he was summoned to Naples to assume the position of auditor and lieutenant general.

Shortly afterward, his exemplary young man came to the realization that he had a religious vocation and, aided by our Lady's appearance to him, joined the Society of Jesus, being ordained in 1567. For three years he labored unstintingly at Naples, devoting himself wholeheartedly to the service of the poor and the youth, and then he was sent to Lecce where he remained for the last forty-two years of his life.

St. Bernardino won widespread recognition as a result of his ceaseless apostolic labors. He was a model confessor, a powerful preacher, a diligent teacher of the Faith to the young, a dedicated shepherd of souls, as well as Rector of the Jesuit college in Lecce and Superior of the Community there. His charity to the poor and the sick knew no bounds and his kindness brought about the end of vendettas and public scandals that cropped up from time to time.

So greatly was this saint loved and appreciated by his people that in 1616, as he lay on his death bed the city's magistrates formally requested that he should take the city under his protection. Unable to speak, St. Bernardino bowed his head. He died with the names of Jesus and Mary on his lips. His feast day is July 2nd.

July 2- Visitation of Our Blessed Lady

2nd Cl., white

The Feast of the Visitation was instituted for the whole world in the year 1389 by Pope Urban IV. It recalls the visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth. The circumstances of her visit are described in today's gospel, especially the sanctification of St. John the Baptist in his mother's womb.

July 1 - The Most Precious Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ

Kyrie, eleison (Kyrie, eleison.)
Christe, eleison (Christe, eleison.)
Kyrie, eleison (Kyrie, eleison.)

Christe, audi nos (Christe, audi nos.)
Christe, exaudi nos. (Christe, exaudi nos.)

Pater de caelis, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Fili, Redemptor mundi, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Spiritus Sancte, Deus, (miserere nobis.)
Sancta Trinitas, unus Deus, (miserere nobis.)

Sanguis Christi, Unigeniti Patris aeterni, salva nos
Sanguis Christi, Verbi Dei incarnati,
Sanguis Christi, Novi et Aeterni Testamenti,
Sanguis Christi, in agonia decurrens in terram,
Sanguis Christi, in flagellatione profluens,
Sanguis Christi, in coronatione spinarum emanans,
Sanguis Christi, in Cruce effusus,
Sanguis Christi, pretium nostrae salutis,
Sanguis Christi, sine quo non fit remissio,
Sanguis Christi, in Eucharistia potus et lavacrum animarum,
Sanguis Christi, flumen misericordiae,
Sanguis Christi, victor daemonum,
Sanguis Christi, fortitudo martyrum,
Sanguis Christi, virtus confessorum,
Sanguis Christi, germinans virgines,
Sanguis Christi, robur periclitantium,
Sanguis Christi, levamen laborantium,
Sanguis Christi, in fletu solatium,
Sanguis Christi, spes paenitentium,
Sanguis Christi, solamen morientium,
Sanguis Christi, pax et dulcedo cordium,
Sanguis Christi, pignus vitae aeternae,
Sanguis Christi, animas liberans de lacu Purgatorii,
Sanguis Christi, omni gloria et honore dignissimus,

Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (parce nobis, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (exaudi nos, Domine.)
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, (miserere nobis, Domine.)
Redemisti nos, Domine, in sanguine tuo. (Et fecisti nos Deo nostro regnum.)

Oremus. Omnipotens sempiterne Deus, qui unigenitum Filium tuum mundi Redemptorem constituisti, ac eius sanguine placari voluisti: concede, quaesumus, salutis nostrae pretium ita venerari, atque a praesentis vitae malis eius virtute defendi in terris, ut fructu perpetuo laetemur in caelis. Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. (Amen.)

Pope Benedict XVI said recently: “The blood of Christ is the pledge of God’s faithful love for humanity. Gazing at the wounds of the crucified Christ, every man, even in extreme moral poverty, can say: God has not forsaken me, He loves me, He gave his life for me; and so rediscover hope.” [Angelus, 5th July 2009]

Societas Liturgiæ Sacræ Sancti Gregorii Announcement

Traditional Latin Mass Schedule

what : Sixth Sunday after Pentecost

when : July 4, 2010 time : 9:30 am

where : Adoration Chapel,
National Shrine of St. Therese,
Villamor AirBase, Pasay City

June 28 - St. Irenaeus, bishop and martyr

The writings of St. Irenaeus entitle him to a high place among the fathers of the Church, for they not only laid the foundations of Christian theology but, by exposing and refuting the errors of the gnostics, they delivered the Catholic Faith from the real danger of the doctrines of those heretics.

More Saints of the Day

• St. Almus
• St. Argymirus
• St. Austell
• St. Benignus
• St. Vincenza Gerosa
• St. Theodichildis
• St. Crummine
• St. Egilo
• St. Heimrad
• St. John Southworth
• St. Paul I, Pope
• St. Plutarch

June 23 - Vigil of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist

Vigil of the Nativity of S. John the Baptist
2nd Cl.
Purple

The Church throughout her entire Liturgy commemorates three births: that of Jesus, that of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and that of St. John the Baptist. Saint John has this singular honor because he was sanctified in his mother's womb by the presence of Jesus, and leapt with joy at the coming of the Savior.

PRAYER

May your servants walk in the path of salvation, almighty God. May they follow the exhortation of Blessed John, the precursor of Jesus Christ and herald of His coming, and by doing so come safely to Your Son our Lord; Amen.