April 2018 - SSPX Ordo Notices
Society of Saint Pius X    Regina Coeli House
11485 N. Farley Rd.    Platte City, MO  64079
(816) 733-2500

Note: This document is for the purpose of apostolate planning and offers a collection of practical advice and announcements. Items may be included in priory and church bulletins if desired; simply copy and paste these announcements into your weekly/monthly bulletin.  We tried to make this list as complete as possible. Please let us know if we are missing something. Going forward it will be updated every 20th of the month and uploaded to the online ordo.

The Paschal Candle: during Paschal Season, the Paschal Candle remains on the Gospel side of the sanctuary. It is lighted on Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, and Easter Tuesday, on Sabbato in Albis, on Sundays of Eastertide, on other major feasts occurring during the season, and on Ascension up to the end of the Gospel. On these days, the Candle is lighted for Masses in cantu, parochial and conventual Low Masses, and for Vespers. It is not lighted during ferial days, nor at Benediction unless this follows Vespers on one of the above days.

The Major Litanies: April 25. Those bound to the Divine Office are bound to pray the Litany of the Saints in Latin. Where the procession is held before Mass, take note of the rubrics given in the Missal and the online Ordo for that day.

Weddings & Funerals: Nuptial blessings may resume on Easter Monday, April 2. Funerals are permitted on any day during the month of April except Easter Sunday and Low Sunday.

District
April 15: Special Collection for Good Shepherd Sunday
April 17: Tax filing deadline (IRS)

STAS
April 2-14: Easter break, seminarians home
May 4-13: Spirituality retreat
June 15-20: Ordination retreat
June 22: Ordinations

Prayers for the General Chapter: From July 11 to 21, 2018, the fourth General Chapter of the Society will take place in Ecône. The Superior General has prescribed prayers that are to be recited daily in all the houses of the SSPX for six months before the beginning of the Chapter: the recitation of the Veni Sancte Spiritus to ask the Holy Ghost for enlightenment, and the invocation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary and St. Pius X to obtain their protection and intercession. The faithful and all men of good will are cordially invited to join in these prayers.

Veni, Sancte Spiritus, reple tuorum corda fidelium, et tui amoris in eis ignem accende. 
V. Emitte Spiritum tuum et creabuntur;
R. Et renovabis faciem terrae.
Oremus. Deus, qui corda fidelium Sancti Spiritus illustratione docuisti: da nobis in eodem Spiritu recta sapere, et de eius semper consolatione gaudere. Per Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
-Cor Immaculatum Mariae, ora pro nobis qui ad Te recurrimus.
-Sancte Pie decime, ora pro nobis.

Come Holy Ghost, fill the hearts of Thy faithful, and kindle in them the fire of Thy love. 
V. Send forth Thy Spirit, and they shall be created;
R. And Thou shalt renew the face of the earth. 
Let Us Pray: O God, Who didst instruct the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Ghost, grant that by the same Spirit we may be truly wise, and ever rejoice in His consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen. 
-Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us who have recourse to thee. 
-St. Pius X, pray for us.

Local observances
Arcadia: April 29-30, Feast of the Dedication of the Cathedral (of Los Angeles*), I class. April 29: First Vespers of the Dedication, with commemoration of the Sunday. April 30: Festal Office and Mass of the Dedication. Priests assigned to Arcadia observe the feast in private recitation of the breviary regardless of location. (*Note that the consecration date refers to that of the first Cathedral of the place, regardless of the construction of any subsequent building with this title.)
Elsewhere: Collect for the Ordinary after that of the day, under one conclusion, in the following places:
Las Vegas: April 6, First Friday. 
(…famulum tuum Joseph… Ecclesiae Campensis…)
Bremer: April 8 (even on Low Sunday). 
(…famulum tuum Michael… Ecclesiae Dubuquensis…)
Miami: April 20. 
(…famulum tuum Thomam… Ecclesiae Miamiensis…)
Syracuse: April 21. 
(…famulum tuum Robertum… Ecclesiae Syracusensis…)
St. Louis: April 21. 
(…famulum tuum Robertum… Ecclesiae Sancti Ludovici…)
Albuquerque: April 27. 
(…famulum tuum Johannem… Ecclesiae Sanctae Fidei…)

SSPX Necrology
April 1: Abbé Denis Roch (2003), Swiss
April 5: Sr. Marie Pierre Lorber (1997), French
April 10: Sr. Marie de la Compassion Bastien (1991), Canadian
April 16: Pater Paul Egli (2011), Swiss
April 21: Sr. Maria Bernadette Zylla (2008), German
April 24: Br. Gerard Nichols (2017), American; *First Anniversary*
April 30: Sr. Marguerite Le Boulch (2006), French