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1 SAINT THOMAS MORE CATHOLIC CHURCH THE SOCIETY OF SAINT PIUS X APRIL 24TH, 2022 LOW SUNDAY 550 Riverview Avenue, Sanford, FL st.thomasmore.priory@gmail.com (407) Fr. Marc Vernoy, Publisher, Editor

2 GREGORIAN LATIN LITURGY Until 1969, the various Catholic liturgies were all of apostolic origin. The Gregorian Latin liturgy, celebrated in this church, follows the tradition of Saint Peter, the first Pope, and has never undergone any essential change till the present time. Every gesture, every word has been weighed and measured with the assistance of the Holy Ghost for the greater glory of God and the salvation of souls. The Lord is in his Holy Temple; let all the earth keep silence before Him. (Hab 2:20) WELCOME VISITORS! We thank you for coming. Whether you are just visiting us for a brief time, looking for a spiritual home, are returning to the practice of Catholic faith, or are interested in finding out more about the Catholic Church; we are happy to have you here, as you are. Please take time to read this bulletin, to meet with the priest after Mass and to socialize. Enter the Holy Temple of the Good Lord to worship Him. Pax vobis! Peace be with you! HOSPITALITY Let the charity of the brotherhood abide in you and hospitality do not forget; for by this some, being not aware of it, have entertained angels. HEB. 13:1-2 Wherefore receive one another, as Christ also hath received you unto the honor of God. ROM. 15:7 IT IS THE CHEERFUL GIVER GOD LOVES. 2 COR 9:7 Tithes and donations: Please specify the intentions of your payments: Building fund Academy Tithe Special collection. Thank you. Church envelopes: Please call (407) (407) The card swipe machine is located in the bookstore. Paypal directly at payments@sspxflorida.com or Donate menu at Donation for our building project should be given at the second collection (except on 3rd/ Academy Sundays), or specified with your offering. 100% of it is kept in the stable patrimony of the Priory and the Academy. Please consider remembering St. Thomas More Church and or the Academy in your will. You, your loved ones, and your intentions will always be remembered in prayers and Masses. If you shop on Amazon, please consider supporting us on Amazon Smile at Society of Saint Pius X Orlando Florida Inc. Sanford, FL

3 I URGE YOU THEREFORE, BROTHERS, BY THE MERCIES OF GOD, TO OFFER YOUR BODIES AS A LIVING SACRIFICE, HOLY AND PLEASING TO GOD, YOUR SPIRITUAL WORSHIP. Rom. 12:1 Out of respect for Our Lord Jesus Christ and for the edification of our neighbor, we beg all to appear in Church attired in decent deportment and modest dress. However, no one has the right to question others, especially visitors. It belongs to the parish priest alone to instruct the laity when they repeatedly dress or deport below expectation. For gentlemen and lads: Neither shorts, T- THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE, IS MY FLESH. JN 6:52 To receive Holy Communion: - One must be a baptized Catholic, having made a good confession since the last committed mortal sin - if any - in order to be in the state of Grace. - One must believe in the doctrine of Transubstantiation. For anyone who eats and drinks without discerning the body eats and drinks judgment upon himself. (1 Cor. 11:29) - One must observe one hour of Eucharistic fast (Water and medicine do not break the fast. However, we advise to abstain from food and alcohol for three hours and one hour for other liquid before Holy Communion). - One must not be a public sinner (public adulterer, concubine, public homosexual), excommunicated, or interdicted. - The most important requirement is to have shirts, nor sneakers meet the norms of modesty. For ladies and girls: Neither shorts, slacks, sleeveless, nor short or low-cut dresses meet the norms of modesty. Furthermore, according to apostolic custom or Church law, gentlemen are bareheaded in church, and ladies are requested to cover their heads. Thank you for your charity. a great desire to receive the Body, the Blood, the Soul, and the Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. You may humbly approach the Communion rail at any time after the Communion of the priest. Open the mouth wide and extend your tongue smoothly and horizontally. Do not say Amen. One should feel free to leave the pew for communion whenever. Do not judge your neighbor who abstains from receiving Holy Communion, as there is no obligation to receive it daily. However, Live in a manner to be able to receive communion every day! (St. Augustine) N.B.: In this Church, the faculty to absolve sins is directly granted to the priests by the Holy Father. Prior: Assistant: Assistant: Assistant: Assistant: Assistant: Assistant: Assistant: Fr. Marc Vernoy Fr. Pierre Fr. James Haynos Fr. Greig Fr. Sean Gerrity Fr. Joshua Fr. Samuel Fabula Fr. Scott Duverger Gonzales Jacobs Settimo

4 ANNOUNCEMENTS MARK YOUR CALENDAR Today/April 24th: No Noon Mass April 25th: Church cleaning. Please help us! May 1st: Good Shepherd Sunday Collection for Vocations May 6th: FSSPX Third Order Meeting May 6th-7th: Eucharistic Adoration May 7th: Ora et Labora May 8th: ARS and HNS Meetings May 17th: Men s Night Today the second collection is for the building fund. April 25th: 8am Solemn High Mass of St. Mark The Easter 1513 on the topic of the Immaculate Heart of Mary is available in the vestibule. May Crowning each Sunday in May: Please send your children with flowers for Our Lady. Please make donations to the church and the Academy in separate checks. Thank you. Humanitarian aid for Ukraine: If you wish to channel your Lenten almsgiving to assisting the people of Ukraine you may send a check to the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Brooksville that graciously hosts our mission there: St. Andrew s Ukrainian Catholic Church 8064 Weeping Willow St., Brooksville, FL Be sure to write Ukraine in the memo line. Eucharistic Adoration: The Blessed Sacrament is exposed for adoration on First Fridays and First Saturdays. Please sign the sheet in the vestibule for your hours of adoration on Friday, May 6th, and Saturday, May 7th. At least two persons should be always present. Reverend Mr. Cormack McCall will be ordained a priest on June 17th. A trip is being organized to the seminary in Virginia for this occasion. If interested, please contact Mrs. Rene Ranieri at (412) On June 26th he will celebrate his first solemn high Mass in Sanford. Sunday Catechism including preparation for first Confession and First Holy Communion: For children ages 4-18, please complete the registration forms in the vestibule. (First Holy Communion will be on June 19th.) Adult catechism: Sundays 9 am (English), 11:15 (Spanish). Gospel Study Class: Wednesdays at 7 pm. Updating HNS Member List: The Holy Name Society is updating its list of current active members. Please pay annual dues for the year of 2022 ($20) by May 1 to be considered an active member. Thank you! Recommended Bookstore Reading: Toward Easter by Fr. Patrick Troadec, FSSPX FSSPX Sisters Girls Camp: In Warners, New York in July. Please see the bulletin board for information.

5 SCHOOL ANNOUNCEMENTS: St. Thomas More Academy - For information, please contact Mr. Justin Sauer at: thomasmoreacademy@gmail.com. Every third Sunday of the month the second collection is for the St. Thomas More Academy. Donations towards student tuition and to the school building fund are much appreciated. With deep gratitude benefactors are remembered in the weekly school Masses and in the daily school prayers. The Academy considers proposals for a new location for the boys high school. CALENDAR: May 8th: Academy Sunday Collection and Bake Sale/ May 15th: Science Fair/ May 26th: Ascension Thursday: no school/ May 28th: Awards Ceremony/ May 29th: Academy Sunday and End of the Year Play The Whole Truth about Fatima Science and the Facts by Frère Michel de la Sainte Trinity A SHORT CRITICAL NOTE The oldest source is the report of Father Ferreira, parish priest of Fatima, who interrogated the children after each of the apparitions, in the following days. His extreme introspection, if not declared hostility, are a sure guarantee of objectivity. The minutely detailed interrogations of Canon Formigao, which took place on September 27, October 11, 13, and 19, and finally November 2, 1917, continue to be of the greatest interest, and we shall come back to them. Lucy wrote for the first time the account of the six apparitions on January 5, 1922, no doubt at the urging of Msgr. Manuel Pereira Lopes, her confessor at Asilo de Vilar. This document, of capital importance for critical purposes, was published for the first time in We also find more precise details on the apparitions of 1917 in different letters of Sister Lucy to her confessors. Finally let us point out that although they come later on, the most complete accounts, and even the surest ones from the critical point of view, are those of the Memoirs of Sister Lucy. This seems contrary to the normal laws of criticism, but here are the reasons: 1. At the moment of the apparitions, the seers, who were aged ten, nine and seven, could neither read nor write. Although this is an incomparable guarantee for the complete authenticity of the message, which they could not have invented in any way, when it came time to describe the apparition, or even to explain it in words, their excessively rudimentary knowledge was a real hindrance for them. Moreover, as we will see, they did not always understand the decisive importance of the interrogations they were made to undergo, and to preserve their secrets or escape from inopportune questions, they sometimes answered, to use Sister Lucy s own expression, without attributing to it any great importance and too hastily, without making a sufficient effort to remember exactly. 2. Because of the secretes they had to keep, they were bound to also hide whatever could more or less touch on them. This explains their frequent embarrassment, hesitations, or even apparent contradictions. In hind sight we can only admire how they succeeded making known whatever could be disclosed and keeping secret whatever had to remain so. But this was often a very delicate matter. 3. From this we may conclude, since there is no reason to suspect the testimony of Sister Lucy, that the accounts written by her after she received from Heaven permission to reveal practically everything, are naturally the clearest and the most coherent, and even permit us to clarify many hesitations or ambiguities of the previous responses. 4. Here then is how Sister Lucy, in her fourth Memoir, relates the first apparition of Our Lady: A WOMAN MORE BRILLIANT THAN THE SUN. High up on the slope of the Cova da Iria, I was playing with Jacinta and Francisco at building a little stone wall around a clump of furze. Suddenly we saw what seemed to be a flash of lightning. We d better go home, I said to my cousins, that s lightning; we may have a thunderstorm. Yes, indeed! they answered. We began to go down the slope, hurrying the sheep along towards the road. We were more or less half-way down the slope, and almost level with a large holm oak tree that stood there, when we saw another flash of lightning. We had only gone a few steps further when, there before us on a small holm oak, we beheld a Lady all dressed in white. She was more brilliant than the sun, and radiated a light more clear and intense than a crystal glass filled with sparkling water, when the rays of the burning sun shine through it.

6 SANCTUARY LAMP DEDICATION THIS WEEK THE SANCTUARY LAMP IS LIT FOR THE CONVERSION OF POOR SINNERS. Please contact (407) or if you are interested in lighting the Sanctuary Lamp for a special intention. Donations are $ Bulletin Advertisements:If you are interested in advertising your business in the bulletin, please contact Kathleen Newell at Your ad will include a professional Ad design. It will be displayed weekly on the back cover of this bulletin. It will also be displayed on the Parishes Online, which has over three million viewers. A digital ad with a direct link to your business web and Facebook Page is included with the purchase of any two space or greater size ad. Memorials for a deceased friends or family members, congratulations, or thanksgivings for blessings received are also welcome additions. See more information on the vestibule bulletin board. Please pray for the vocations of our chapel, namely: Fr. Benjamin Campbell, Fr. Elias Campbell, Sr. Marguerite, Br. Bede, Austin Johnson, Reverend Mr. Cormack McCall, and Joseph McCall. Praise God for His blessings. Please pray for our Service Members: Carlos Britos EMNCS (SW/AW) USN, Andrew Baierwalter LT USN,Pablo Britos CTMC USN, Brittany Britos CTT1 USN, Giann Tomasini LCPL USMC Please pray for all of our sick and homebound, whose names are listed on the bulletin board. Visits to the Sick and Homebound: Sick and homebound persons frequently request visitors. This work of mercy of visiting the sick is open to both ladies and gentlemen. Please pray for the eternal repose of the souls of our faithful departed, whose names are listed on the bulletin board. ARS-Altar Rosary Society: Ladies who assist the church. Contact Ms. Virginia Sherwell: (301) HNS-Holy Name Society: Gentlemen who assist the church. Contact: Dr. Brian McCall mccallbrian1970@gmail.com ARS and HNS Meetings are held on Second Sundays. The church bell was baptized with the name Joseph Teresa by His Excellency, Bishop Bernard Fellay, on April 25th. The god-father of the bell is Mr. Jeffrey Rhea. The name Teresa is in honor of Ms. Teresa Wright, who was very instrumental in founding the parish. Census Cards: If you are new to the parish, or have not completed a census card, or have updated information, please complete a census card located in the vestibule. STM Newsletter: To receive our weekly newsletter please subscribe at Altar Service: Please offer to serve the Masses. Servers are much needed. Contact the STMA office: (407) / stma.office@gmail.com. Thank you. If you wish to receive the STM Updates for please send your names and s to updatesstm@gmail.com If you wish to receive the church weekly newsletter please subscribe at sspxflorida.com/subscribe FSSPX Third Order Meetings: First Fridays at 6:45 pm in the church common room. All are encouraged to attend. Publications explaining the Third Order are available in the vestibule. WILL YOUR LAST WISHES BE HONORED? Consider these questions: In what church will your funeral take place? What will be the liturgy? Who will make the correct moral decisions for you if you are unable to do so? Do you wish to bequeath to your church? Do not leave your final arrangements to strangers! Make a last will, appoint an attorney and make your final desires known! If you have specific questions, please contact your church or priest. 1 st Sunday: Blessing of the children before recessional. 2 nd Sunday: Blessing of the religious articles. 3 rd Sunday: Blessing of the sick before recessional. Please avoid calling the Priory before 10am and during meals. Priests schedule: 7:10: Prime 7:30: Mass 12:15 pm: Sext 5:30: Rosary 8:30: Compline and Grand Silence First Thursday: Recollection and Silence

7 Priory Schedule for this Week SUNDAY, April 24th Low Sunday I class (white) 7:00 Confessions Rosary 7:30 Sung Mass 8:45 Confessions 9:30 High Mass Blessing of the Sick 12:00 No Mass/Cancelled 7:30 - Vega 9:30 - TBD MONDAY, April 25th St. Mark (Greater Litanies) Evangelist, II class (red or violet) TUESDAY, April 26th Sts. Cletus and Marcellinus, Popes and Martyrs, III class (red) 7:30 Mass 8:00 Solemn High Mass 7:30 Mass Confessions 11:00 Mass Confessions 6:00 Mass Confessions 6:00 - Ranieri 7:30 - M. St.-Laurent (ST) Sauer (SPX) Sauer (SJ) J. St.-Laurent 6:00 - Ranieri 7:30 - R. Campbell (ST) McCall (SPX) Bourque (SJ) Nasby 11:00 - STMHS 6:00 - Ruiz WEDNESDAY, April 27th St. Peter Canisius, Confessor and Doctor of the Church, III class (white) THURSDAY, April 28th St. Paul of the Cross, Confessor III class (white) 7:30 Mass Confessions 6:00 Mass Confessions 7:00 Gospel Study 7:30 Mass Confessions 11:00 Mass Confessions 6:00 - Ranieri 7:30 - M. St.-Laurent (ST) Morrow (SPX) Mi. St.-Laurent (SJ) J. St.-Laurent 11:00 - STMA 6:00 - Matheus 6:00 - Ranieri 7:30 - A. Amparo (ST) Morrow (SPX) J. Alf (SJ) Nasby 11:00 - STMA 6:00 - Ruiz FRIDAY, April 29th St. Peter Martyr, Martyr III class (red) 7:30 Mass Confessions 6:00 Mass Confessions 7:30 - B. Campbell (ST) R. Campbell (SPX) Mr. Cook 6:00 - Vega SATURDAY, April 30th St. Catherine of Siena, Virgin III class (white) 7:45 Confessions Marian Devotions Benediction 8:30 Mass 11:00 Mass 7:45 - Vega 8:30 - Vega 11:00 - Matheus SUNDAY, May 1st St. Joseph the Worker I class (white) Commemoration of the Second Sunday after Easter, Etiam in Cantu 7:00 Confessions Rosary 7:30 Sung Mass 8:45 Confessions 9:30 High Mass Blessing of Children 11:30 Confessions 12:00 Sung Mass 5:00 Vespers and Benediction 7:30 - Vega; Bourque 9:30 - MC: Quero TH: R. Leyva AC s: B. Leyva; C. Sauer CB: J. Alf TB s: Rhea; A.; G. Leyva L. Sauer; L. Ulate BB: Maratea 12pm - Matheus; Amparo 5:00 - Ranieri; 3 Sauers Chapel App: fsspx.today/chapel/fl-sanford Servers must be present in the sacristy at least ten minutes before the ceremony.

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