Current Announcements

Since we have transitioned from using the red Missals with printed propers inserted (red booklets that were kept at the entrance with a printed insert containing the prayers and readings proper to each Mass) to the Benedictus, which contains everything for conveniently following along with the Mass, we have 18 large boxes of printed propers in the rectory that are available for free. If you would like to take a box of printed propers or all 18 of them, please arrange with Fr. van Zee or Fr. Adams to pick them up from the rectory. 

If you have private Mass intentions feel free to give them to Fr. Adams. Private Masses are those said in the rectory and the intention will not be published online. The intention must be submitted to Fr. Adams in writing (not email and not to Fr. van Zee). Stipends for each Mass are $10 and must be given in cash (again, not online). There will be a limit of 5 intentions per person. Once a year's worth of intentions have been received, no more can be accepted. 

As some of you may already have heard, we have decided to pull out of the property that was under contract in Bonita Springs as the possible site for our own new Chapel project. Fr. Romanoski and the Bishop arrived at this decision after many months of studies of the land.

The land was deemed unsafe by the Bishop primarily because of the access road running through the property. It was determined that with semi-trucks constantly driving through it, it would not be safe for our many children and appropriate for a church campus. It was also lacking in utilities and had a number of other unknown aspects to it which made it a risk to invest in.

We did not lose any money for pulling out, as all was studied at very little cost under the due diligence period. 

We continue to actively look at other properties, with the help of the diocese and their team of realtors and there are some prospects we are actively studying in better developed areas. 

Let us continue to pray through the intercession of St. Joseph that someday soon we may have a Chapel of our own.

On Monday evenings at 7:30pm at Ave Maria Law School Library Andrew Olson will be teaching a Catholic Bible study. Please show up by 7:40pm to be let in or find Katy Allen or Andrew Olson to be added to the WhatsApp group chat and receive updates. 

Please join us on Friday February 11th, 2022 for the Consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The prayer of Consecration will be prayed after the homily at the 5:15pm Mass at St. Agnes' chapel.

February 13, 2022 at 8:45am at St. Agnes Chapel will be our monthly Mass "for the Fraternity and the preservation of the traditional Mass." 

 Please pray for the ordinands:

February 12: ordinations in Denton by His Exc. Robert Finn, Bishop Emeritus of Kansas City -
St. Joseph:

Subdeacons:
Adrian Fyda

Isaac Lind

Evan Schwab

Quin Gomez

Nathan Pospischil

February 12: ordinations in Wigratzbad by His Exc. Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz:

Subdeacons:
Johannes Bachmaier
Andreas Brem
Xavier Bourges
Hugues Gilliot
Quentin Hautebert
Felix Heider
Stanislas de La Rochefoucauld
Alexander Mayer
Donatien Viot
Melvin Watts

February 26: ordinations in Wigratzbad by His Exc. Wolfgang Haas, Archbishop of Vaduz:

Porters and Lector:
Stjepan Androić
Duarte Cabral Moncada
Jacopo Maria Calloni
Jan Celmer
Henri Constant
Simon-Xavier Danielsson
Géraud de David-Beauregard
Géraud Dorliat
Benoît Faivre
Josua Frederic Falkenau
Ambroise Girard-Bon
Laurens Jakob Heinst
Mario Maurer
Łukasz Mazurek
Miguel Medeiros Cardoso
Aleksander Nozdryn-Plotnicki
Matyáš Razím

Exorcists and Acolytes:
Miguel Castelo Branco
Henri Crevat
Miklós Homolya
Hugues Le Noan
Manuel Vaz Guedes
Péter Uhel

Jan Vatter

Please join in our Novena of Preparation to consecrate the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary. The Novena begins February 2nd and ends February 10th.

Following a decade of the Rosary:

Remember, O most gracious Virgin Mary, that never was it known that anyone who fled to thy protection, implored thy help, or sought thine intercession was left unaided.
Inspired by this confidence, I fly unto thee, O Virgin of virgins, my mother; to thee do I come, before thee I stand, sinful and sorrowful. O Mother of the Word Incarnate, despise not my petitions, but in thy mercy hear and answer me.
Amen.

Act of Consecration of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes, February 11, 2022

This consecration must be recited on Friday, February 11, 2022 by all the members of the Fraternity; the faithful who wish to do so may join in (same remarks as above for the novena).

O Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God and Help of Christians, behold this day before thy feet, the priests and seminarians of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, together with all those who, united with us as a spiritual family, place their hope and trust in thee.

O Queen and Mother of all priests, it was by thee that Jesus, the High Priest and Victim, was given unto the world, and He in turn has given thee as Mother to us.

Intercede, therefore, we implore thee, for us thy children, whom thou didst receive and accept at the foot of the Cross. Look with favor upon the work we seek to do for the glory of God and the salvation of souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers the graces we need as members of the one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, to be instructed and enlightened by her Magisterium, to be devoutly zealous for the graces of her Sacraments, and to be unfailingly loyal in our unity with the Vicar of thy Son.

The rest of the text is recited only by priests and seminarians of the Fraternity:
Conscious of our own frailty, and of the hatred of the world for the works of light, we offer this day to thy Immaculate Heart our Priestly Fraternity and beg thee to take it under thy patronage. We chose thee, this day and evermore, as our advocate and Queen, and devote ourselves and all those souls who seek our priestly care, together with all our works and all we have and are, to thy loving protection.

To thee and to thy Immaculate Heart, we entrust and consecrate ourselves. Assist us in our endeavors to spread the Kingdom of thy Son, so that those who have strayed from the truth may once more attend to the teaching of the Church; those separated from her unity may return to the one true fold; those in sin may be restored to a state of grace; and those who have abandoned the Sacraments may return with fervor to receive them.

O Virgin Most Pure, do thou, together with Saint Peter, and all the angels and saints, pray for us all in these times of trial. May thy love and protection be ever upon our Fraternity, so that we may faithfully proclaim the Holy Gospel and bring the Sacraments to ever more souls. Obtain for us by thy prayers that we may persevere in grace until death, when we may be united with thee, our loving Mother, in the house of the Father. Amen.

As is tradition, we will have the blessing of throats after Mass on Thursday, February 3rd in honor of St. Blaise. 

On Wednesday, February 2nd we will have the traditional Candlemas blessing of Candles, procession, and High Mass beginning at 4pm and not at 5:15pm. Please bring your beeswax candles to the front of the Chapel on the Epistle side of the altar before Mass. 

Nota Bene: The candles must be at least 51% beeswax.