⛪FULLY TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC LATIN MASS & CHANT-ST JOHN'S ORATORY

Pier 45 near Taylor Street, San Francisco CA

10 October, 2021

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Offering the Only Fully Traditional Pre-Vatican II Traditional Latin Mass (1950) And Divine Office with Gregorian Chant In the San Francisco Bay Area Continuously since 1992 "Some Things in Life Should Never Change" "An Oasis of Spiritual Sanity" =================================================================== NOTE THE CHANGE IN SCHEDULE FOR THIS SUNDAY TO ALLOW THE CONGREGATION TO EXIT IN PLENTY OF TIME BEFORE THE FLEET WEEK AIR SHOW AND COLUMBUS DAY PARADE IN THE WHARF AREA STARTING AT 11:00 A.M. THE HOUR OF TERCE OF THE DIVINE OFFICE AND THE ANGELUS WILL NOT BE CHANTED TODAY. HOLY MASS WILL BEGIN IMMEDIATELY AT 9:30 AM. THERE WILL BE NO FORMAL SERMON TODAY. =================================================================== ST. JOHN'S ORATORY SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2021 TWENTIETH SUNDAY AFTER PENTECOST Semidouble Sunday in Green Vestments 9:30 AM: Terce of the Traditional Catholic Divine Office in Gregorian Chant Chanted Angelus with Carillon 10:00 AM: Fully Traditional Latin Mass Other Collects: St. Francis Borgia, Confessor ; To Implore the Intercession of the Saints Gregorian Chant by the St. John Schola for Gregorian Chant Catechism & Scripture/Sermon: "..." THOUGHT FOR THIS SUNDAY'S MASS The story is told that in 1539 St. Francis Borgia had the duty of escorting the remains Queen Isabella to the royal cemetery at Granada. When her coffin was opened for him to verify the identity of the body before it was placed in the tomb, the sight in death of this once most beautiful queen so shocked him that he vowed never again to serve a corruptible earthly sovereign. From St. Francis Borgia, we learn the vanity of earthly greatness and the virtue of humility, as he did at the funeral of Queen Isabella. "For he that hath been humbled shall be in glory; and he that shall bow down his eyes, he shall be saved" (Job 22:29/DRV) CONTINUING NEEDS Altar servers, Gregorian chant schola (choir) members. ST. JOHN'S ORATORY ST. JOHN'S ORATORY IS THE ONLY LOCATION IN THE BAY AREA THAT HAS PRESERVED THE REAL, VALID, FULLY TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC LATIN MASS (1950) AND DIVINE OFFICE BEFORE THEY WERE CHANGED INTO A HALF NEW ORDER "NEW LATIN" (AKA "EXTRAORDINARY") SERVICE IN 1962 AND BEFORE, INTO AN INVALID NEW ORDER SERVICE IN 1969. Even the 1962 "New Latin" service is NOT the TRADITIONAL CATHOLIC Latin Mass, even though it may be falsely advertised as such to trick the ignorant into its Protestantized service by throwing in some Latin. We here at St. John's Oratory since 1992 have never deviated from the true and valid Traditional Latin Mass, True Sacraments, and True Faith of 2,000 years. ST. JOHN'S ORATORY DID NOT COME ONLY RECENTLY TO THIS APOSTOLATE, BUT HAS OFFERED, WITH EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, AND COMMITMENT, THE HISTORICAL TRADITIONAL LATIN MASS AND DIVINE OFFICE EVERY SUNDAY AND HOLYDAY SINCE 1992. St. John's Oratory is also known as a center for promoting the traditional Latin Gregorian chant of the traditional Roman rite. Gregorian chant is sung by the St. John Gregorian Schola of San Francisco, which is recording a series of Gregorian-chant CDs series entitled "A Traditional Chapel Sings Gregorian Chant," being issued under the ChantCD label. For further information, see the ChantCD web site at www.chantcd.com/sjs.htm. FOR THE FULL SCHEDULE OF THE TRADITIONAL LATIN MASSES AND DIVINE OFFICE, LOCATION MAPS, FREE PARKING, AND OTHER INFORMATION, see our web site at www.traditio.com/stjohn.htm. You may contact the Oratory by E-mail or phone via the Reply box above. If you wish to keep alive the only fully Traditional Latin Mass in the Bay Area, and be added to the benefactors for whom we pray each Sunday and Holyday, you may submit your tax-deductible donation through our web site. St. John's Oratory, at the Fishermen's & Seamen's Memorial Chapel, is a San Francisco historical landmark blessed by His Eminence Salvatore Cardinal Pappalardo, Archbishop of Palermo, and dedicated to the memory of those who have lost their lives at sea. We pray at every Mass for the fishermen and seamen of this port. In the heart of Fisherman's Wharf, turn east off Embarcadero/Jefferson Street onto Taylor Street, then left onto the Pier 45 access road. The Oratory is located about one block down the access road, one block northeast of the corner of Jefferson & Taylor Streets, next to the bell-tower. There is free parking adjacent to the Oratory and wheelchair access. The Society of St. John Ap., a traditional Roman Catholic society, operates independently of any diocese or other religious society as an Oratory, not a parish. We do not conduct weddings or funerals except for regular members of the congregation. All rites offered only on site.