Una Voce San Bernardino

7th Anniversary of Foundation of CRNJ (St. Micheal’s Abbey)

May 31, 2010

Dear Laurence,

We are going to have a very special Mass at Saint Michael’s Abbey on Saturday, June 12, starting at 10 AM for our 8th Anniversary of foundation. There will be a huge recpetion aftewards to which everyone will be invited.

This Sunday is Corpus Christi and we are going to have a very beutiful Mass at Yorba Linda with very solemn eucharistic veneration at the end.  The Mass will start at 6:20 AM this Sunday as a result.

Blessings,
Dom Daniel Augustine, CRNJ

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The experience of the mass in this form is beyond words, it truly is where heaven meets earth, where the deepest mysteries of the faith unfold, in a tangible and manifest way.

~ Sequoia Sierra, age 21

The homily was so profound.  We need more homilies like that.  I SO wanted to take notes.  I found a deeper meaning of the Mass and the humility of Christ coming down from Heaven in the form of bread to be united with us in holy communion.  I placed my intentions at the altar and I KNEW that it was being transformed through the hands of the priest.  The priesthood is TRULY a gift for the Church.  Catholic, Latin, Universal.  Our Holy Mother Church is so wise to offer us both forms of the mass. The Mass enhanced my understanding of the dignity of the priesthood.

~ Meryl Bravo, age 31

The choir was, of course, amazing. They added just the right amount of edifying beauty without being overpowering or turning the mass into a concert. I was struck by the reverence and attention of the children who were attending; the three near me were paying particular attention, which did my heart good.

 ~ Dana Cash

Graces overflowed the church during this Glorious Mass that was said with such adoration and reverance. The Gregorian chant touched the depths of my soul and filled me with such joy and peace. It was as if I was living a thousand years ago, attending a Mass of the true and ancient teachings of our Man God. I recommend for all living beings to attend this Mass, where we unworthily approach the Holies of Holies and receive Sanctifying Grace…in which the world is in desperate need of.

~ Veronica Clare

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There will be a High Requiem Mass for Ruth Isley at St. Timothy’s Church in west LA Wednesday at 10 A.M.  Fr. Bishop is the celebrant and the choir will include members of the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Steven Grimm.  Sorry for the late notice.
Rene Widmann

For some reason, I forgot to publish this video on here.

On Sunday March 14, Laurence Gonzaga, Andrew Hedstrom, Vincent Padilla III, Josef Seno, Luke Enkosky, Josh McAleese, Dana Cash, Mark Lysecky and Benny Barrios, as an activity of Una Voce San Bernardino (www.unavocesb.org), traveled to the Norbertine Abbey of St. Michael’s in Silverado, CA. We were there to take part in a 14.3 mile pilgrimage organized by Una Voce Orange County (www.uvoc.org), from the Abbey to the Mission San Juan Capistrano Serra Chapel. For the majority of the pilgrimage we were accompanied by a Norbertine priest and the prior of the Canons Regular of the New Jerusalem, who trailed about 50 yards behind the procession hearing confessions. A priest who celebrates the Latin Mass for UVSB in Perris, the Rev. Fr. Paul Schmidt, SVD also came on pilgrimage with us. We departed the Abbey at 9 AM and arrived at the Chapel about 40 minutes prior to the scheduled 6 PM Latin Tridentine Low Mass said by a Norbertine Father. For two people in our group, Josh McAleese and Benny Barrios, it was their first time assisting at the Latin Mass. Though they were admittedly a little disoriented in the distinctly ancient form, they said after the Mass, in discussion with UVSB President Laurence Gonzaga, that they thought the Mass was very beautiful and reverent and were interested in continuing to assist at this form if it was available. They were informed that in our own diocese, there are 4 churches which offer this Ancient Liturgy: San Secondo D’Asti (Ontario, 10:30 AM, All Sundays), St. James (Perris, 6 PM, 1st and 3rd Sundays), Christ the Good Shepherd (Adelanto, 5 PM, 2nd Sundays), and Sacred Heart (Palm Desert, 2:30 PM, All Sundays). By the grace of God, more parishes in our diocese will offer this form of the Mass which nourished the Saints of God for 1500 years. This is the apostolate of Una Voce. For more information about the Latin Mass, please visit the UVSB website. We wish to be in solidarity with the will of Pope Benedict XVI when he explained his desire that every priest may now be able to celebrate this form of the Mass in 2007 when he wrote:

“In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place.”

Laurence Gonzaga
Lecturer, Vocations Chairman, K of C 4488
President, UVSB

 (S. C. Doct. Fid., 24 July, 1966) AAS 58-659.

A Letter of the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, signed by Cardinal Ottaviani, was sent with the approval of Paul VI to all the Episcopal Conferences on 24 July, 1966. 

To the Venerable Prelates of the Episcopal Conferences:

Since the Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, recently brought to a happy termination, has promulgated some very wise documents concerning both doctrine and discipline, in order more effectively to promote the life of the Church, all the people of God have a serious duty to strive with all earnestness to put into practice everything that was solemnly proposed or decreed by that vast gathering of Bishops under the guidance of the Holy Spirit and the presidency of the Supreme Pontiff.

On the other hand, the Hierarchy has the right and duty to supervise, direct, and promote the renewal which the Council set in motion, so that the Documents and Decrees of the Council may be rightly interpreted and be put into effect with precise fidelity to their proper sense and intention. For this doctrine must be defended by the Bishops, invested as they are with the office of teaching authoritatively under the leadership of Peter. And, to their credit, many of these Shepherds have already begun to explain properly the doctrine of the Council.

Unfortunately, however, from many sources dismaying reports have come, of growing abuses in the interpretation of the Council’s doctrine, and of strange and bold opinions springing up here and there, which have seriously disturbed a number of the faithful. Researches and efforts to investigate the truth more deeply are praiseworthy, provided the distinction is clearly kept between what must be believed and what is a matter of opinion. But documents which this Sacred Congregation has examined show that there are many current declarations which go far beyond the limits of simple opinions or hypotheses and seem to affect in some degree the very dogma and foundations of the faith.

It will be useful to mention by way of example some of these statements and errors as they appear from reports furnished by learned men and from published writings.

1) In the first, place there is Sacred Revelation. Some, purposely disregarding Tradition, have recourse to Sacred Scripture. but restrict the scope and force of biblical inspiration and inerrancy, and hold false views on the historical value of the texts.

2) As regards the doctrine of the Faith, dogmatic formulas are declared to be so subject to historical evolution that their objective meaning is subject to change.

3) The ordinary magisterium of the Church, especially of the Roman Pontiff, is sometimes so neglected and so little esteemed that it is almost reduced to the category of mere opinion.

4) Some scarcely acknowledge any absolute objective truth, firm and immutable; they regard everything as subject to a kind of relativism, on the mistaken ground that all truth must necessarily follow the rhythm of the evolution of conscience and history.

5) Even the adorable Person of our Lord Jesus Christ is attacked, for in the rethinking of christology the concepts of nature and person which are employed are such as can hardly be reconciled with defined dogmas. A sort of christological humanism creeps in, reducing Christ to the status of a mere man who arrived gradually at the consciousness of his divine Sonship. His virginal conception, His miracles, even His Resurrection, are verbally acknowledged but really reduced to the merely natural order.

6) So too, in the theological treatise on the Sacraments, certain elements are either ignored or receive insufficient attention, especially in regard to the Most Holy Eucharist. There are those who dispute about the real presence of Christ under the appearances of bread and wine, proposing an exaggerated symbolism as though the bread and wine were not changed into the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were merely transferred to a certain symbolic significance. There are also some who unduly urge the concept of agape in the Mass, as taking precedence over the idea of Sacrifice.

7) Some choose to explain the Sacrament of Penance as a means of reconciliation with the Church, not expressing sufficiently the reconciliation with God who has been offended. They even claim that for the celebration of this sacrament the personal confession of one’s sins is not necessary, and so they seek to express only the social function of reconciliation with the Church.

8 ) As for the teaching of the Council of Trent on original sin, some either make little of it or present it in such a way that the original sin of Adam and the transmission of sin itself are at least clouded.

9) In the field of moral theology, errors are no less current. Several go so far as to reject the objective nature of morality; others refuse to accept the natural law and assert the legitimacy of so-called ethics of the situation. Pernicious opinions are advanced regarding morality and responsibility in the matter of sexuality and marriage.

10) Besides all this, something must be said about Ecumenism. Certainly the Apostolic See has praise for those who, in the spirit of the Conciliar Decree on Ecumenism, promote projects designed to foster charity for our separated brethren and to draw them toward the unity of the Church. But it deplores the fact that some are interpreting the Decrees of the Council in their own way and are urging a type of ecumenical activity which is contrary to the truth of the Faith and the unity of the Church, favoring a dangerous irenicism and indifferentism, a thing which is utterly foreign to the mind of the Council.

It is true that these errors and dangers, taken singly, are scattered here and there; but taken all together in a summary group, they are presented to the local Ordinaries in this letter, so that each one according to his function and office may take proper measures to restrain or forestall them.

This Sacred Congregation earnestly prays the local Ordinaries, when united in their respective Episcopal Conferences, to take action in this matter and to report to the Holy See offering their advice on it, before the feast of the Nativity of our Lord Jesus Christ of this current year.

This letter, which obvious reasons of prudence prevent from being made public, is to be kept strictly secret by the Ordinaries and by any other persons to whom they may for sufficient reason decide to communicate it.

A. Card. OTTAVIANI

Rome, 24 July, 1966.

AAS 58-659; S. C. Doct. Fid., 24 July, 1966.