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St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church Archdiocese of Atlanta

Served by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP) ___________________________________________________________________________

Dedicated to the Traditional Latin Mass and Sacraments according to the 1962 Roman Missal of St. John XXIII 587 Landers Drive, Mableton, GA 30126

Website: www.stfrancisdesalesatl.com Office: 770-948-6888 Emergencies: Select option 7 Bookstore: 770-745-3613

Pastor: Rev. Joseph DeGuzman, FSSP [email protected] Assistant: Rev. James Smith, FSSP [email protected] Rev. Mr. Doug Anderson (AoA) Secretary: Amy Thomas [email protected]

Last Sunday's Collection: $4,050.60 God reward you. Circumcision of Our Lord: $2,086.15

Sun, Jan 6 Epiphany of the Lord 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low †Souls in Purgatory by Lisa Hagerty 11:30am High †Janine Chancey by Landon Chancey Mon, Jan 7 Feria of Epiphany 12:00pm †Mary Claire Yedinak Tue, Jan 8 Feria of Epiphany 6:30am Alan and Christian Dominguez by Dominguez Family 9:00am Marcelo G. Felix-Camarena by Rosa Camarena Jaimes

Wed, Jan 9 Feria of Epiphany 12:00pm Special Intention by Viola Stephens

Thu, Jan 10 Feria of Epiphany 6:30am In Honor of Jesus Agony in Garden by Maureen Cunningham 9:00am †Maria Elena Jaimes Jaramillo by Rosa Camarena Jaimes

Fri, Jan 11 Feria of Epiphany No 12pm Mass 7:00pm †Aida Acevedo by Isabel Mejia

Exposition follows Mass

Sat, Jan 12 Saturday of Our Lady 7:00am †Anna & †Isaac de Sola by Jo-Anne Kidd

9:00am Family of Deborah Liles by Randal Mandock

Sun, Jan 13 The Holy Family 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low †Holy Souls in Purgatory by Owen & Caroline Elliott 11:30am High Kevis A.Santiago by Carmen Santiago

2019 OFFERTORY ENVELOPES ARE AVAILABLE FOR PICK-UP IN THE VESTIBULE. After today please contact the parish office to pick up

your unclaimed envelopes. Today: 2nd Collection FSSP Seminary Burse Fr. Smith will be on vacation until January 12th. No Confirmation Class December 30th -January 6th. Class will resume Sunday January 13th. Wednesday, Jan 9th-St. Gerard Ministry: The next mom’s and children’s Mass is this Wednesday at noon. Please bring your small children as we help them practice being at Mass. Confessions will begin at 11:30am (we can watch your little ones). Bring your own snack/lunch for a small social afterwards. MASS REQUEST ADMISSION PROCEDURE: Please use the form available on our website for requesting Mass intentions and fill in all the information. If you submit a Mass request and stipend without this form it will not be accepted, it will be placed in the vestibule for you to pick up and re-submit with the correct form. If you have problems accessing this form please contact the parish office.

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Liturgical Calendar & Mass Intentions Confessions heard before all Masses. Sundays 6:45, 8:15 & 10:30am

http://www.stfrancisdesalesatl.com/

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Epiphany House Blessings: Chalk, water, and instructions are available in the vestibule for you to bless your house. You may invite a priest to bless your home at any time of the year and are encouraged to do so.

St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips: Registration is open for the 2019 St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips. This summer there will be three trips; Dominican Republic, Piura Peru and Guadalajara Mexico. The Guadalajara trip is open to families whereas the Dominican Republic and Peru trips are for youth ages 16-21. Completed applications must be completed no later than January 30, 2019. The application process is done online at: www.sfxmission.com

Seeking altar servers (men or boys) who can commit to serving one weekday Mass a month. Please contact the parish office if interested. Stay tuned for up-coming announcements on the new Knights of the Altar Society for boys.

Consecration to Jesus through Mary: Will be on the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saturday, Feb 2nd. Dec 31st is the date to begin the 33-day preparation. The Legion of Mary suggests the following site in preparation for Consecration to Jesus through Mary: https://totalconsecration.newevangelizers.com/schedule/

All Parishioners: Please do not leave items for other parishioners to pick up on church property, please wait until you see them in person. Also, please do not leave free items of any kind anywhere on church property (this includes but is not limited to: holy cards, rosaries & other sacramentals, holy images). Thank you for your cooperation.

Email Warning: An email scammer is using the email address: [email protected]. This email is similar to the pastor email account only the above email has “sfsd” after pastor instead of “sfds”. Also, the false email uses Fr. DeGuzman's name in the body of the email. Fr. DeGuzman will not ask you for financial assistance by email. He would not ask you to send gift cards to third party persons. If he needed to, he would call you or ask you in person.

The blessing tray has been moved to the far corner of the social hall by the TV monitor. Please leave items to be blessed on the table. And please pick up items there that have already been blessed the following Sunday after you dropped them off.

Save The Dates: St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church 20th Anniversary: January 27, 2019 (celebration party planned for February 3rd with Pontifical Mass at 11:30am with Bishop Shlesinger, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta). Confirmation 2019 by Bishop Shlesinger: March 30, 2019. Lenten Mission with Fr. Buckley, FSSP: March 17th-22nd, 2019. More information to follow.

Inquirers Class: The priests of the parish are teaching a class every Wed at 6pm, pausing periodically for seasonal breaks, for non-Catholics who have questions about the Catholic religion. All non-Catholics are welcome to attend.

St. Francis de Sales-Information & Contacts Confessions:15 mins before weekday Masses; Sundays 6:45am,8:15am,10:30am Baptism: Contact the parish at least six weeks before birth Marriage: Contact the parish at least six months before the wedding Eucharistic Exposition: Friday after evening Mass Rosary: Before 9:00am and 11:30am Sunday Masses Religious Education (CCD): Sundays at 10:15am (Aug.-May) Legion of Mary: Meet Tuesdays at 5:00pm Knights of Columbus: Meets 2nd Monday of month: Rosary 6:30pm, dinner, meeting starts at 7:30pm. https://sites.google.com/view/kofc14625/home Columbian Squires: Circle meets on 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:15pm FNE: Female scouting group meets Saturday mornings: [email protected] St. Gerard: For desirous, new, and expectant moms: [email protected] Bookstore Hours: Sunday 10:00am-11:15am and 1:00pm-1:30pm

https://totalconsecration.newevangelizers.com/schedule/

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Last Sunday's Collection: $7,316.25 God reward you. FSSP Seminary Burse: $1,707.50

Sun, Jan 13 The Holy Family 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low †Holy Souls in Purgatory by Owen & Caroline Elliott 11:30am High Kevis A. Santiago by Carmen Santiago Mon, Jan 14 St. Hilary 12:00pm Father HJ Venette Tue, Jan 15 St. Paul, the First Hermit 6:30am †Ron Dees by Lloyd & Elizabeth Bird 9:00am Joseph R. Brock by Tom & Christine Brock

Wed, Jan 16 St. Marcellus I 12:00pm Jared Leonard by Hagerty Family

Thu, Jan 17 St. Anthony 6:30am Alan and Christian Dominguez by Dominguez Family 9:00am Carlos A. Lares Cordero by Grisselle Bazzani

Fri, Jan 18 Feria 12:00pm †Mary Yedinak by Patricia Freeman 7:00pm In Gratitude for the Most Blessed Sacrament


Sat, Jan 19 Saturday of Our Lady 7:00am Conversion of Nicholas Anderson

9:00am Isabella Goodrich by Thomas Anderson

Sun, Jan 20 2nd Sunday after Epiphany 7:15am Low John Rasnick 9:00am Low David Trettel by Hagerty Family 11:30am High Pro Populo

Confirmation Class resumes today. Chili Cookoff- The Knights of Columbus will be hosting a Chili Cookoff on Sunday, January 20th after the 11:30am Mass. Please bring your favorite homemade chili. Parishioners will give a donation to try the chili and then vote for their favorite. The winner will receive a cash prize! St. Francis de Sales Parish 20th Anniversary Celebration will be on February 3rd with a Pontifical Mass at 11:30am with Bishop Shlesinger, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. A barbeque and potluck meal and celebration will be held in the gym following Mass. More details to come. Georgia March for Life: Will be on Tuesday, January 22nd. The pre-march memorial service (featuring prayer, speeches and music) begins at 11am and the march begins at 1pm. For more information please visit: www.grtl.org/?q=2019-Georgia-March-for-Life MASS REQUEST ADMISSION PROCEDURE: Please use the form available on our website for requesting Mass intentions and fill in all the information. If you submit a Mass request and stipend without this form it will not be accepted, it will be placed in the vestibule for you to pick up and re-submit with the correct form. If you have problems accessing this form please contact the parish office.

_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The Holy Family, January 13, 2019 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________






Casti Connubii - On Christian Marriage (cont.) Encyclical of Pope Pius XI December 31, 1930

Even by the light of reason alone and particularly if the ancient records of history are investigated, if the unwavering popular conscience is interrogated and the manners and institutions of all races examined, it is sufficiently obvious that there is a certain sacredness and religious character attaching even to the purely natural union of man and woman, “not something added by chance but innate, not imposed by men but involved in the nature of things,” since it has “God for its author and has been even from the beginning a foreshadowing of the Incarnation of the Word of God.” This sacredness of marriage which is intimately connected with religion and all that is holy, arises from the divine origin we have just mentioned, from its purpose which is the begetting and education of children for God, and the binding of man and wife to God through Christian love and mutual support; and finally it arises from the very nature of wedlock, whose institution is to be sought for in the farseeing Providence of God, whereby it is the means of transmitting life, thus making the parents the ministers, as it were, of the Divine Omnipotence. To this must be added that new element of dignity which comes from the sacrament, by which the Christian marriage is so ennobled and raised to such a level, that it appeared to the Apostle as a great sacrament, honorable in every way. This religious character of marriage, its sublime signification of grace and the union between Christ and the Church, evidently requires that those about to marry should show a holy reverence towards it, and zealously endeavor to make their marriage approach as nearly as possible to the archetype of Christ and the Church. They, therefore, who rashly and heedlessly contract mixed marriages, from which the maternal love and providence of the Church dissuades her children for very sound reasons, fail conspicuously in this respect, sometimes with danger to their eternal salvation. This attitude of the Church to mixed marriages appears in many of her documents, all of which are summed up in the Code of Canon Law: “Everywhere and with the greatest strictness the Church forbids marriages between baptized persons, one of whom is a Catholic and the other a member of a schismatical or heretical sect; and if there is, add to this, the danger of the falling away of the Catholic party and the perversion of the children, such a marriage is forbidden also by the divine law.” If the Church occasionally on account of circumstances does not refuse to grant a dispensation from these strict laws (provided that the divine law remains intact and the dangers above mentioned are provided against by suitable safeguards), it is unlikely that the Catholic party will not suffer some detriment from such a marriage. Seeking Altar Servers (men or boys) who can commit to serving one weekday Mass a month. Please contact the parish office if interested. Stay tuned for up-coming announcements on the new Altar Society for boys. All Parishioners: Please do not leave items for other parishioners to pick up on church property, please wait until you see them in person. Also, please do not leave free items of any kind anywhere on church property (this includes but is not limited to: holy cards, rosaries & other sacramentals, holy images). Thank you for your cooperation.

Email Warning: An email scammer is using the email address: [email protected]. Also, the false email uses Fr. DeGuzman's name in the body of the email. Fr. DeGuzman will not ask you for financial assistance by email. He would not ask you to send gift cards to third party persons. If he needed to, he would call you or ask you in person. St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips: Registration is open for the 2019 St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips. This summer there will be three trips; Dominican Republic, Piura Peru and Guadalajara Mexico. The Guadalajara trip is open to families whereas the Dominican Republic and Peru trips are for youth ages 16-21. Completed applications must be completed no later than January 30, 2019. The application process is done online at: www.sfxmission.com Save The Dates: Consecration to Jesus through Mary: February 2nd, https://totalconsecration.newevangelizers.com/schedule/ . St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church 20th Anniversary: January 27, 2019 (celebration party planned for February 3rd with Pontifical Mass at 11:30am with Bishop Shlesinger, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta). Confirmation 2019 by Bishop Shlesinger: March 30, 2019. Lenten Mission with Fr. Buckley, FSSP: March 17th-22nd, 2019. More information to follow. Inquirers Class: The priests of the parish are teaching a class every Wed at 6pm, pausing periodically for seasonal breaks, for non-Catholics who have questions about the Catholic religion. All non-Catholics are welcome to attend. St. Francis de Sales-Information & Contacts Confessions:15 mins before weekday Masses; Sundays 6:45am,8:15am,10:30am Baptism: Contact the parish at least six weeks before birth Marriage: Contact the parish at least six months before the wedding Eucharistic Exposition: Friday after evening Mass Rosary: Before 9:00am and 11:30am Sunday Masses Religious Education (CCD): Sundays at 10:15am (Aug.-May) Legion of Mary: Meet Tuesdays at 5:00pm Knights of Columbus: Meets 2nd Monday of month: Rosary 6:30pm, dinner, meeting starts at 7:30pm. https://sites.google.com/view/kofc14625/home Columbian Squires: Circle meets on 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:15pm FNE: Female scouting group meets Saturday mornings: [email protected] St. Gerard: For desirous, new, and expectant moms: [email protected] Bookstore Hours: Sunday 10:00am-11:15am and 1:00pm-1:30pm














Last Sunday's Collection: $5,533.28 God reward you.

Sun, Jan 20 2nd Sunday after Epiphany 7:15am Low John Rasnick 9:00am Low David Trettel by Hagerty Family 11:30am Low Pro Populo Mon, Jan 21 St. Agnes 12:00pm †Mary Yedinak Tue, Jan 22 Votive Mass for Peace 6:30am †Tracey Pucci by Rex & Viola Stephens 9:00am Mr.& Mrs. Gerardo Joven & family by Rechuel Francisco

Wed, Jan 23 St. Raymond of Penafort 12:00pm Mary Catherine LaPlante

Thu, Jan 24 St. Timothy 6:30am †Holy Souls in Purgatory 9:00am Noah Thomas Chancey by Garstin Family

Fri, Jan 25 Conversion of St. Paul 12:00pm Andrew Cole by Thomas & Audra Cole 7:00pm Ofelia Mandock by Randal Mandock


Sat, Jan 26 St. Polycarp 7:00am Protection of Moumi Family by Candice Moumi

9:00am Ernest Ormandy by Mrs. Haloda

Sun, Jan 27 3rd Sunday after Epiphany 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low Conversion of family members by Owen & Caroline Elliott 11:30am High Sydney Rose

*FREE POINSETTIAS IN THE SOCIAL HALL* Today: 2nd Collection-Archdiocesan Hispanic Ministries (please make checks payable to St. Francis de Sales) Today: Chili Cookoff- The Knights of Columbus will be hosting their annual Chili Cookoff today after the 11:30am Mass in the parish hall. Anyone may enter: cash prizes for 1st and 2nd place. All are invited to sample the entries ($2.00 per person) and vote for their favorite. Proceeds go to the Knight's Wheelchair Initiative. https://amwheelchair.org/knights-of-columbus/ January 18th-January 25th, The Chair of Unity Octave: A plenary indulgence on the usual conditions at the end of the octave of prayers for the unity of the Church from the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter in Rome (Jan.18) to the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul (Jan.25). (Apostolic Brief, Feb.25, 1916; S.P. Ap., Nov. 15, 1927 and Dec. 10, 1946). These prayers replace the Leonine prayers after low Mass, and are available in the vestibule. St. Francis de Sales Parish 20th Anniversary Celebration will be on February 3rd with a Pontifical Mass at 11:30am with Bishop Shlesinger, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The party will be in the gym at 1:30pm. The parish will be providing the BBQ meal and beverages. Please go to PerfectPotluck.com to sign up if you can bring a desert to share or help with serving or clean-up. To sign in: Coordinator Name: Heenan Password: 3598.

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Today the 11:30am Mass will be a Low non-dialogue Mass as the choir is taking a break. High Mass resumes next Sunday.

Thank you: The Knights of Columbus received a letter from St. Vincent de Paul Society in Atlanta thanking us for the almost 400 pounds of food donated. This food was distributed to families in need for Christmas. The Knights thank all parishioners who dropped food items in the food collection boxes during Advent.

Save The Dates: Consecration to Jesus through Mary: February 2nd, https://totalconsecration.newevangelizers.com/schedule/ . Confirmation 2019 by Bishop Shlesinger: March 30, 2019. Lenten Mission with Fr. Buckley, FSSP: March 17th-22nd, 2019. More information to follow.

Georgia March for Life: Will be on Tuesday, January 22nd. There will be a breakfast in the social hall after the 9am Mass before heading downtown to the march. The pre-march memorial service (featuring prayer, speeches and music) begins at 11am and the march begins at 1pm. For more information please visit: www.grtl.org/?q=2019-Georgia-March-for-Life

Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Lead by Catholics of the Holy Land. Daily traditional Latin Mass. Chaplain: Fr. Robert Novokowsky, FSSP. October 7 - 19, 2019. For more details: 804-320-4932 or [email protected]

St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips: Registration is open for the 2019 St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips. This summer there will be three trips; Dominican Republic, Piura Peru and Guadalajara Mexico. The Guadalajara trip is open to families whereas the Dominican Republic and Peru trips are for youth ages 16-21. Completed applications must be completed no later than January 30, 2019. The application process is done online at: www.sfxmission.com

Seeking Altar Servers (men or boys) who can commit to serving one weekday Mass a month. Please contact the parish office if interested. Stay tuned for up-coming announcements on the new Altar Society for boys. MASS REQUEST ADMISSION PROCEDURE: Please use the form available on our website for requesting Mass intentions and fill in all the information. If you submit a Mass request and stipend without this form it will not be accepted, it will be placed in the vestibule for you to pick up and re-submit with the correct form. If you have problems accessing this form please contact the parish office. All Parishioners: Please do not leave items for other parishioners to pick up on church property, please wait until you see them in person. Also, please do not leave free items of any kind anywhere on church property (this includes but is not limited to: books, holy cards, rosaries & other sacramentals, holy images). Thank you for your cooperation. Inquirers Class: The priests of the parish are teaching a class every Wed at 6pm, pausing periodically for seasonal breaks, for non-Catholics who have questions about the Catholic religion. All non-Catholics are welcome to attend. St. Francis de Sales-Information & Contacts Confessions:15 mins before weekday Masses; Sundays 6:45am,8:15am,10:30am Baptism: Contact the parish at least six weeks before birth Marriage: Contact the parish at least six months before the wedding Eucharistic Exposition: Friday after evening Mass Rosary: Before 9:00am and 11:30am Sunday Masses Religious Education (CCD): Sundays at 10:15am (Aug.-May) Legion of Mary: Meet Tuesdays at 5:00pm Knights of Columbus: Meets 2nd Monday of month: Rosary 6:30pm, dinner, meeting starts at 7:30pm. https://sites.google.com/view/kofc14625/home Columbian Squires: Circle meets on 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:15pm FNE: Female scouting group meets Saturday mornings: [email protected] St. Gerard: For desirous, new, and expectant moms: [email protected] Bookstore Hours: Sunday 10:00am-11:15am and 1:00pm-1:30pm














Last Sunday's Collection: $6,968.07 God reward you. Hispanic Ministries: $156.00

Sun, Jan 27 3rd Sunday after Epiphany 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low Conversion of family members by Owen & Caroline Elliott 11:30am Low Sydney Rose Mon, Jan 28 St. Peter Nolasco 12:00pm Karina Mandock by Randal Mandock Tue, Jan 29 St. Francis de Sales 6:30am Low †Ron Dees by Lloyd & Elizabeth Bird 7:30pm High †Holy Souls in Purgatory by Maureen Cunningham

Wed, Jan 30 St. Martina 12:00pm Ralph Regan by Thomas Anderson

Thu, Jan 31 St. John Bosco 6:30am †Aida Acevedo by Isabel Mejia 9:00am John Rasnick

Fri, Feb 1 St. Ignatius (First Friday) 12:00pm †Mary Yedinak 7:00pm Otto Feil by Randal Mandock


Sat, Feb 2 Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1st Saturday) 7:00am Low Joaquin Carver by Fred & Karen Carver

9:00am High SFdS Volunteers

Sun, Feb 3 4th Sunday after Epiphany 7:15am Low Pro Populo 9:00am Low †Donald J. Palaschak by Sims Family 11:30am Low Pontifical Mass Celebrant’s Intention

St. Francis de Sales Parish 20th Anniversary Celebration will be on February 3rd with a Pontifical Mass at 11:30am with Bishop Shlesinger, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Atlanta. The party will be in the gym at 1:30pm. Please make every effort to attend! The parish will be providing the BBQ meal and beverages. Please go to PerfectPotluck.com to sign up if you can bring a desert to share or help with serving or clean-up. To sign in: Coordinator Name: Heenan Password: 3598. God reward you! Feasts of St. Francis de Sales and the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary: On Jan 29th in celebration of our parish’s patronal feast day there will be a 7:30pm High Mass. A reception will follow Mass in the social hall. Please bring something to share. On the Feast of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Feb 2nd, there will be a 9am High Mass with the blessing of the candles, please leave any candles to be blessed before St. Joseph’s altar. A reception will follow the 9am Mass in the social hall, please bring something to share. Consecration to Jesus through Mary at the communion rail will follow each Mass on this day. Blessing of the Throats: There will be a blessing of the throats in honor of St. Blaise after each Mass at the communion rail, Sunday, February 10th. Save The Dates: Confirmation 2019 by Bishop Shlesinger: March 30, 2019. Lenten Mission with Fr. Buckley, FSSP: March 17th-22nd, 2019. More information to follow.

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Casti Connubii - On Christian Marriage (cont.) Encyclical of Pope Pius XI December 31, 1930

Whence it comes about not unfrequently, as experience shows, that deplorable defections from religion occur among the offspring, or at least a headlong descent into that religious indifference which is closely allied to impiety. There is this also to be considered that in these mixed marriages it becomes much more difficult to imitate by a lively conformity of spirit the mystery of which We have spoken, namely that close union between Christ and His Church. Assuredly, also, will there be wanting that close union of spirit which as it is the sign and mark of the Church of Christ, so also should be the sign of Christian wedlock, its glory and adornment. For, where there exists diversity of mind, truth and feeling, the bond of union of mind and heart is wont to be broken, or at least weakened. From this comes the danger lest the love of man and wife grow cold and the peace and happiness of family life, resting as it does on the union of hearts, be destroyed. Many centuries ago indeed, the old Roman law had proclaimed: “Marriages are the union of male and female, a sharing of life and the communication of divine and human rights.” But especially, as We have pointed out, Venerable Brethren, the daily increasing facility of divorce is an obstacle to the restoration of marriage to that state of perfection which the divine Redeemer willed it should possess. The advocates of the neo-paganism of today have learned nothing from the sad state of affairs, but instead, day by day, more and more vehemently, they continue by legislation to attack the indissolubility of the marriage bond, proclaiming that the lawfulness of divorce must be recognized, and that the antiquated laws should give place to a new and more humane legislation. Many and varied are the grounds put forward for divorce, some arising from the wickedness and the guilt of the persons concerned, others arising from the circumstances of the case; the former they describe as subjective, the latter as objective; in a word, whatever might make married life hard or unpleasant. They strive to prove their contentions regarding these grounds for the divorce legislation they would bring about, by various arguments. Thus, in the first place, they maintain that it is for the good of either party that the one who is innocent should have the right to separate from the guilty, or that the guilty should be withdrawn from a union which is unpleasing to him and against his will. In the second place, they argue, the good of the child demands this, for either it will be deprived of a proper education or the natural fruits of it, and will too easily be affected by the discords and shortcomings of the parents, and drawn from the path of virtue. And thirdly the common good of society requires that these marriages should be completely dissolved, which are now incapable of producing their natural results, and that legal reparations should be allowed when crimes are to be feared as the result of the common habitation and intercourse of the parties. This last, they say must be admitted to avoid the crimes being committed purposely with a view to obtaining the desired sentence of divorce for which the judge can legally loose the marriage bond, as also to prevent people from coming before the courts when it is obvious from the state of the case that they are lying and perjuring themselves, — all of which brings the court and the lawful authority into contempt. Hence the civil laws, in their opinion, have to be reformed to meet these new requirements, to suit the changes of the times and the changes in men’s opinions, civil institutions and customs. Each of these reasons is considered by them as conclusive, so that all taken together offer a clear proof of the necessity of granting divorce in certain cases. Others, taking a step further, simply state that marriage, being a private contract, is, like other private contracts, to be left to the consent and good pleasure of both parties, and so can be dissolved for any reason whatsoever. Opposed to all these reckless opinions, Venerable Brethren, stands the unalterable law of God, fully confirmed by Christ, a law that can never be deprived of its force by the decrees of men, the ideas of a people or the will of any legislator: “What God hath joined together, let no man put asunder.” And if any man, acting contrary to this law, shall have put asunder, his action is null and void, and the consequence remains, as Christ Himself has explicitly confirmed: “Everyone that putteth away his wife and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.” Moreover, these words refer to every kind of marriage, even that which is natural and legitimate only; for, as has already been observed, that indissolubility by which the loosening of the bond is once and for all removed from the whim of the parties and from every secular power, is a property of every true marriage.

Seeking Altar Servers (men or boys) who can commit to serving one weekday Mass a month. Please contact the parish office if interested. Stay tuned for up-coming announcements on the new Altar Society for boys. Pilgrimage to the Holy Land: Lead by Catholics of the Holy Land. Daily traditional Latin Mass. Chaplain: Fr. Robert Novokowsky, FSSP. October 7- 19, 2019. For more details: 804-320-4932 or [email protected] St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips: Registration is open for the 2019 St. Francis Xavier Mission Trips. This summer there will be three trips; Dominican Republic, Piura Peru and Guadalajara Mexico. The Guadalajara trip is open to families whereas the Dominican Republic and Peru trips are for youth ages 16-21. Completed applications must be completed no later than January 30, 2019. The application process is done online at: www.sfxmission.com MASS REQUEST ADMISSION PROCEDURE: Please use the form available on our website for requesting Mass intentions and fill in all the information. If you submit a Mass request and stipend without this form it will not be accepted, it will be placed in the vestibule for you to pick up and re-submit with the correct form. If you have problems accessing this form please contact the parish office. All Parishioners: Please do not leave items for other parishioners to pick up on church property, please wait until you see them in person. Also, please do not leave free items of any kind anywhere on church property (this includes but is not limited to: books, holy cards, rosaries & other sacramentals, holy images). Thank you for your cooperation. Inquirers Class: The priests of the parish are teaching a class every Tuesday at 6pm, pausing periodically for seasonal breaks, for non-Catholics who have questions about the Catholic religion. All non-Catholics are welcome to attend. St. Francis de Sales-Information & Contacts Confessions:15 mins before weekday Masses; Sundays 6:45am,8:15am,10:30am Baptism: Contact the parish at least six weeks before birth Marriage: Contact the parish at least six months before the wedding Eucharistic Exposition: Friday after evening Mass Rosary: Before 9:00am and 11:30am Sunday Masses Religious Education (CCD): Sundays at 10:15am (Aug.-May) Legion of Mary: Meet Tuesdays at 5:00pm Knights of Columbus: Meets 2nd Monday of month: Rosary 6:30pm, dinner, meeting starts at 7:30pm. https://sites.google.com/view/kofc14625/home Columbian Squires: Circle meets on 2nd Sunday of the month at 1:15pm FNE: Female scouting group meets Saturday mornings: [email protected] St. Gerard: For desirous, new, and expectant moms: [email protected] Bookstore Hours: Sunday 10:00am-11:15am and 1:00pm-1:30pm








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