Current Announcements

Monday, March 7th, at 5:15pm at St. Agnes' Chapel there will be a Sung Mass and we will celebrate St. Thomas Aquinas as a second-class feast.

This Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday are Ember days in Lent. Friday there will be a Sung Mass at 5:15pm at St. Agnes' Chapel.

Via Crucis will be prayed after the 5:15pm Sung Mass on Friday. The Via Crucis will be prayed outside(weather permitting), behind St. Agnes' chapel. A PDF of the Stations of the Cross can be downloaded here.

Saturday, March 12th, adult convert class offered via Zoom from 9am-10am. 

The season of Septuagesima is a preparation for the season of Lent. The season begins with First Vespers (around 6pm) Saturday, February 12th. The season comprises the Sundays and the weeks they begin of Septuagesima, Sexagesima, and Quinquagesima, as a period of preparation for Lent. The names of these Sundays roughly indicate the time before Easter.

The liturgical color is the violet of penance. Although the liturgical color is one of penance, the Lenten rules of fasting do not bind. The Gloria is omitted on Sundays and ferial days. The Alleluia verse is suppressed, also the word Alleluia verse is replaced by the Tract on Sundays and feast days. 

This extended period of preparation is intended to heighten the importance of that for which we are preparing. Michael Fiedrowicz, in his book The Traditional Mass, comments, "With pastoral wisdom and empathy the Church prepares her faithful for the beginning of the season of Lent, which in turn leads into an even more intensified preparation for the feast of Easter with Passion Sunday (fifth Sunday of Lent) before the beginning of Holy Week which culminates in the Triduum Sacrum."

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 Private Masses are those said in the rectory and the intention will not be published online.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. 

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. 

Lunes, 14 de febrero tendremos catequesis en español a las 6pm en el cuarto de confesiones de la capilla de San Agnes. Que traigan una Biblia Católica. There will be Catechesis in Spanish at 6pm on Monday, February 14th in the confessional room at St. Agnes. 

Tuesday, February 15th from 6:30pm to 8;30pm Women's Group lead by Fr. Adams. Please sign up for announcements about the Women's Group to receive an email with all the information about the monthly meetings.

There will be adult Catechesis in English at Royal Palm Academy with Fr. van Zee on Saturday, February 19th at 9am.

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.

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.

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. 

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