Update for the Saint Michael's pilgrimage

8th Annual Michaelmas Pilgrimage
In Honor of our Patron, St. Michael the Archangel
September 26-28th, 2008
Cherokee Village, Arkansas

Instaurare omnia in Christo

Sequence of Events:

Friday September 26: 7:00 PM Ember Friday: Latin Mass at St. Michael’s Catholic Church

Saturday September 27: Ave Maria Hall, Star of the Sea Village
.9:00 AM, Ember Saturday: Latin Mass at St. Michael’s Catholic Church
· 2:00 PM, Ave Maria Hall: Lecture for Adults: Saint Michael and the Spiritual Warfare (Note: Activities will be provided for the children)
· 3:30 PM, Ave Maria Hall: Children’s Lecture (age 7 – 12 ): Devotion to the Angels
· 5:30 PM, Holy Hour with Confessions: St. Michael’s Catholic Church
· 6:45 PM, Ave Maria Hall: BBQ: Grills provided; bring something to grill and a side dish
· 8:00 PM, Ave Maria Hall: The children of St. John the Baptist Latin Mass Community will perform the play A Candle in Umbria, based on the life of St. Claire.

Sunday September 28
· 11:15 AM High Mass of the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel
· 1:00 PM Pot Luck Luncheon at the Ave Maria Hall, Star of the Sea Village. All invited to attend. For directions call (870) 793-2488 or (870) 834-1541.
· 3:30 PM Litany of the Saints at the Shrine of Saint Philomena, Star of the Sea Village.
· 3:45 – 6:00 PM Pilgrimage March enroute to St. Michael’s Catholic Church.
· 6:00 PM Solemn Vespers and Benediction

Lodging in the area:

Camping is available onsite for both tent-camping as well as RV dry-camping. Please RSVP asap if planning to camp in order that sufficient sanitary facilities may be arranged. There will be evening campfires and sing-a-longs with Fr. Demets participating if a substantial group of campers will be coming to the pilgrimage.

Best Western: 3587 Highway 62-412, Hardy, AR, 72542. Phone: 870-856-2176
Days Inn: 870-856-4241 Continental breakfast & outdoor pool.
Hardy Spring River Lodge: www.hardysspringriverlodge.com 870-856-4001. Cont. bfst & indoor pool.
Biggers B&B: 866-856-4718 or 870-856-4718 www.biggersbnb.com Overlooking the Spring River.
Olde StoneHouse: 870-856-2983 Historic home in old town Hardy.
Village Vacations: weekend house rental: Phone: (870) 257-3258 Toll-Free: (800) 331-5896
Ponderosa Motel: Highway 62/167/412, Hardy, AR, 72542. Phone: 870-856-3753

For More Information:
Father Laurent Demets, FSSP (frdemets@aol.com)
Saint John the Baptist Latin Mass Community
1921 Maple Street, North Little Rock
Ph: (501) 812-9155 or at Cherokee Village Rectory: (870) 257-5588
David Sonnier: (870) 793-2488, www.sanctemichael.com, or dsonnier@lyon.

Hommage national

Hommage national aux dix soldats tués en Afghanistan

Cour d'Honneur des Invalides

21 aout 2008

L'allocution du Chef de l'Etat

8è régiment parachutiste d'infanterie de marine

Sergent Damien Buil

Caporal Kevin Chassaing

Adjudant Sébastien Devez

Caporal Damien Gaillet

Sergent Nicolas Grégoire

Caporal Julien Le Pahun

Caporal Anthony Rivière

Caporal Alexis Taani

Régiment de marche du Tchad

Caporal Melan Baouma

2e Régiment étranger parachutiste

Sergent Rodolphe Penon

Pilgrimage in honor of St. Michael

8th Annual Michaelmas Pilgrimage

In Honor of our Patron, St. Michael the Archangel
September 27-28th, 2008

Instaurare omnia in Christo

Sequence of Events:

Saturday September 27: Ave Maria Hall, Star of the Sea Village
• 2:00 PM, Ave Maria Hall: Lecture for Adults: Saint Michael and the spiritual warfare (Note: Activities will be provided for the children)
• 3:30 PM, Ave Maria Hall: Lecture for Children, ages 7 – 12 : (Subject): Devotion to the Angels
• 5:30 PM, St. Michael’s: Holy Hour with Confessions: St. Michael’s
• 6:45 PM, Ave Maria Hall: BBQ
• 8:00 PM, Ave Maria Hall: The children of St. John the Baptist Latin Mass Community will perform the play A Candle in Umbria, based on the life of St. Claire.

Sunday September 28

· 11:15 AM High Mass at Saint Michael's
• 1:00 PM Pot Luck Luncheon at the Ave Maria Hall, Star of the Sea Village. All invited to attend. For directions call (870) 793-2488 or (870) 834-1541.
• 3:30 PM Litany of the Saints at the Shrine of Saint Philomena, Star of the Sea Village.
• 3:45 – 6:00 PM Pilgrimage March enroute to St. Michael’s Catholic Church.
• 6:00 PM Solemn Vespers and Benediction

Lodging in the area
Best Western: 3587 Highway 62-412, Hardy, AR, 72542. Phone: 870-856-2176
Days Inn: 870-856-4241 Continental breakfast & outdoor pool.
Hardy Spring River Lodge: www.hardysspringriverlodge.com 870-856-4001. Continental breakfast & indoor pool.
Biggers B&B: 866-856-4718 or 870-856-4718 www.biggersbnb.com Overlooking the Spring River.
Olde StoneHouse: 870-856-2983 Historic home in old town Hardy.
Village Vacations: weekend house rental: Phone: (870) 257-3258 Toll-Free: (800) 331-5896
Ponderosa Motel: Highway 62/167/412, Hardy, AR, 72542. Phone: 870-856-3753

For More Information:
Father Laurent Demets, FSSP (frdemets@aol.com)
Saint John the Baptist Latin Mass Community
1921 Maple Street, North Little Rock
Ph: (501) 812-9155 or at Cherokee Village Rectory: (870) 257-5588
David Sonnier: (870) 793-2488, www.sanctemichael.com, or dsonnier@lyon.edu

A good project

August 1, 2008

Open letter to Members of the St. Therese Missionary Society from Carol Ann Beeman:

May Jesus Christ be praised!

Dear Friends and Supporters;

As you have read in past newsletters, I was made principal of St. Peter’s Catholic School (K-6) in Pine Bluff, Arkansas last July. As in other years, I experienced personally the extensive needs in Catholic schools and felt the importance of addressing the spiritual needs of the children attending them. This has confirmed a long-term sense that God might be leading me to build a new order of teaching sisters. This proposed order would also include contemplative nuns to support the work with prayer. Preference will be given for the Extraordinary form of the Roman Rite from 1962 and common prayer from the Latin Carmelite Breviary of 1959, with use of the Ordinary Form of Mass, as situations may dictate.

This letter is to ask for your prayers and also to request that you spread the word to young women who might be interested in trying their vocation to help build this new Association of the Faithful. I met with Bishop Anthony B. Taylor, Bishop of Little Rock on July 29, 2008. He reviewed the enclosed Plan for 2008-2009 and gave his commendation and his blessing to begin the new work, A tentative rule has been written and was also approved. Copies may be requested.

Carol Ann Beeman
St. Peter’s Catholic School
1515 S. State Street
Pine Bluff, Arkansas 71601

School: (870) 535-4017 Convent: (870) 534-2316
Cell: (870) 448-7163
Or contact me at: 202 Walnut Street, Marshall, AR 72650
(870) 448-3403
Yours prayerfully,

Sermon for the 12th after Pentecost

Saint Paul tells us how much the ministration of Our Lord was a ministration of glory. Glory! It is probably something that we all seek, but let us be sure that it is the glory of God and not a vain glory, not ours. The glory of God is manifested through the glory of His only begotten Son. It is something that the liturgy of the whole liturgical year reminds us of from the Advent season until the last Sunday after Pentecost. And the liturgy, using the verses from the Scriptures invites us to welcome our King of Glory: Who is this King of Glory? The Lord who is strong and mighty: the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates: and the King of Glory shall enter in (Ps.23:8,9).
Certainly, the eternal gates are the gates of heaven that were open when Christ rose from the dead and that are open again every time that a holy soul comes to meet Him as a supreme reward for a holy life. But they also signify our souls that are eternal too and that must be opened in order to welcome Christ and then to continue His ministration of glory on earth. Opening the gates of our souls to Christ is the key that will open the gates of heaven for us.
How can we do this? What do we have to do? It is a crucial question that the lawyer asks in today’s gospel: Master, what must I do to possess eternal life? And we know the answer; we know it so well, as the lawyer did, since it was already written in the Old Law. So how is it possible that we are so tardy to put it into practice? Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with all thy strength and with all thy mind: and thy neighbor as thyself (Lk.10:27).
The love of God is the true ministration of glory, but it has to be true, total and integral. How can it be such? It is only when we love our neighbor as ourselves. The measure of the love of our neighbor is the measure of love for ourselves, and it is, unfortunately, a thing that only a few understand well. Aristotle had already understood this with only the strength of his reason, that the origin of friendly relations with others lies in our relations to ourselves.
But let us well understand. We do not speak about a sensitive love of nature, which would be a kind of selfishness, but about a love out of charity. And charity is a friendship. Properly speaking, Saint Thomas says, a man is not a friend to himself, but something more than a friend. Friendship implies union, but a man is one with himself which is more than being united to other. Hence, just as unity is the principle of union, so the love with which a man loves himself is the form and root of friendship.
So in order to love others well, we have to be entirely one with ourselves. The secret of charity has to be found within the depths of our very person. If you enter into yourself, you will find God; and if you find Him, you will find your neighbor. Our ministration of glory begins with an inner quest of God and this quest has to be followed by external acts of charity. Let us be sure that we do not become withdrawn; it would be selfishness and not charity. Here, it is a matter of balance between two opposite extremes. Dedicating yourself to your neighbor without taking a sufficient time for your soul and your spiritual life is dangerous. Your actions are not totally rooted in Christ and your charity might become a mere natural humanism. But refusing to help your neighbor under the pretext that you have to take care of your soul might be selfishness. It is sometimes easy to hide our selfishness behind the mask of piety.
In fact there is a time for everything: a time for the works of mercy, a time for the works of charity, a time for the works of piety and of religion. We do not always have the choice of this time. Our good Samaritan probably had something else to do when he met the wounded man. But it was his time, by God’s choice.

The love of God is the true ministration of glory. May our Lady help us to make it clear in our minds. May she help us discover the timing of God when we are called to do good to our neighbor. Let us not miss these opportunities that God gives us, often many times a day.