Volume XLIX, December 8, 2021
St John Vianney Weekly Update
St. John Vianney Cleburne, TX is a Catholic Church under the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
Our Lady of Guadalupe comes as an expectant mother, indicated by the black sash
Let us ask Jesus to be born in our hearts today! . . .
When the Spanish explorer Hernan Cortes "discovered" Mexico in 1519, the Aztec Chief Montezuma thought these white men were the gods his princess niece had dreamed about coming to their land. Little did they know that Cortes was bringing the true God and Christianity.
In 1531, Juan Diego told the "Lady" on the hill: "I am a simple Indian. You should find someone important with connections to tell the bishop to build your shrine." She replied, "I could, but I choose You."

"The Lady from Heaven"
Did you know?
  • Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Saint Juan Diego on December 9, 10 and 12, 1531.
  • The image left on Saint Juan Diego’s tilma is the only true picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe in existence.
  • The image has remained intact with all its original vibrancy for 475 years. The natural life span of a cloak made with fiber from the gave or maguey plant is only about 30 years.
  • The image is a pictograph which could be read and understood by the Aztec Indians.
  • Our Lady appears as a beautiful young Indian maiden and Queen.
  • Her eyes are looking down with humility and compassion. She is human, not God.
  • She is wearing a blue-green mantle (the color worn by royalty) covered with stars.
  • The stars signify she comes from heaven – the Queen of Heaven. The constellations are in the exact position as appeared before dawn on the morning of December 12, 1531.
  • Her robe is colored rose or pale red and covered with Aztec flowers, symbolic of an Aztec princess.
  • In the center of her robe, overlying her womb, is a four petal quincunx flower in the shape of a cross which is the sign of the Divine and the center of the cosmic order to the Aztec. The Virgin’s Baby, Jesus, is Divine and the new center of the universe.
  • Her hands are joined in prayer and, therefore, she is not God but clearly there is one greater than she and she points her finger to the cross on her brooch.
  • Her fur cuffs symbolize royalty.
  • She wears a black maternity band signifying she is with Child.
  • A black cross is on the brooch around her neck. This signifies she is a follower of the God of the Spanish Missionaries, Jesus Christ who died on the cross for all.
  • She stands in front of the sun. The sun symbolizes the greatest Aztec god – Huitzilopochtli. She announces the God who is greater than their sun god.
  • She stands on the moon. The crescent moon symbolized the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent moon god. She has clearly crushed and defeated him.
  • An angel with eagle’s wings supports the Mother of God. The eagle was the “bird of the sun.” Here the eagle is the servant of the Virgin. She holds her mantle in one hand and robe with the other, signifying the Son she bears is from both heaven and earth.
  • To date the image cannot be explained by science.
  • The image on the tilma was able to do what up to that time the missionaries were not able to do significantly. Namely, clearly explain Christianity to the Indian people. The proof is in the fact that after the apparitions, eight million natives of Mexico converted to Catholicism from 1531 to 1538.
  • In 1999, St. Pope John Paul II formally declared Our Lady of Guadalupe Patroness of the Americas, the Empress of Latin America and the Patroness of Unborn Children. Click Here
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT aka GAUDETE SUNDAY
THIS COMING WEEK'S EVENTS
Wed - Dec 8
5:00pm Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament
5:45pm Confessions
6:00pm Rosary
6:30pm Mass
7:00pm Choir

Thurs - Dec 9
7:45am Confessions
8:30am Mass

Fri - Dec 10
11:15am Confessions
Noon Mass

Sat - Dec 11
Marti Elementary
4:15pm Confessions (closet in back of stage)
5:00pm Vigil Mass (Catholic Hymnal)

Sun - Dec 12, Guadete Sunday, 3nd Sun of Advent
Marti Elementary
8:15am Confessions (closet in back of stage)
9:00am Mass
10:30 Religious Ed, all ages and Christmas Party

Mon - Dec 13
11:15am - Confessions
Noon Mass

Tues - Dec 14
11:15am - Confessions
Noon Mass

Wed - Dec 15
5:00pm Adoration
5:45pm Confessions
6:00pm Rosary
6:30pm Mass
7:00pm Choir
Religious Education: Please register your children with Laura Kastner for classes starting in the fall: lhk6770@protonmail.com. Volunteers needed!
LECTIONARY FOR THIS WEEK.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
  • Dec 12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
  • Dec 12 Religious Ed Party all grades
  • Games & potluck. Meat provided, guests should bring side dish, salad or desserts to share. All children, their families, staff members and volunteers are invited.
  • After this Sunday, no Religious Ed classes until Jan 16, 2022

CHRISTMAS MASSES' SCHEDULE at Marti Elementary
Christmas Eve - Fri, Dec 24th - 5pm Mass. 8pm Sung Mass
Christmas Day - Sat, Dec 25th - 9am Sung Mass. NO 5pm Mass.
Sunday, Dec 26 - 9am Sung Mass
SJV has begun Intinction

Sunday, November 21st, we started to practice intinction at our main service. This is an ancient custom, and one that the Ordinariate has embraced. If you would like to receive by intinction, simply open your mouth as always, if not, hold out your hands and I will know to give the not intincted host to you.

Fr Scott
Join the Knights!
St John Vianney and St Josephs has a great opportunity for all good Catholic men, the Knights of Columbus. If you are not a member, please join by emailing me at the link below. If you are a member, we are meeting again, please come and join us on the second Monday of each month, at St Josephs parish hall.
Last week we spoke about the Patrimony that was found within Anglicanism, and how it was of God, and therefore brought into the Catholic Church. What we must now discover is how this was done. There are three methods by which Patrimony was brought into the Church, Divine Worship, the 1982 hymnal, and the Anglican clergy and laity who came to Rome. This week, we will speak about Divine Worship, which is found in the missal that we use in mass.
The Missal expands Church’s diversity in expression, unity in faith.
The Missal, a definitive book of liturgical texts for the celebration of Mass in the Ordinariates around the world, has been approved and promulgated by the Vatican for use beginning the first Sunday of Advent, November 29, 2015. The authorization of the new missal marks a milestone in the life of the Ordinariates. The Sacrament of the Eucharist is the source and summit of Christian life, and Divine Worship: The Missal provides a way for the Ordinariates to celebrate the sacred liturgy of the Catholic Church with an “Anglican inflection.” The missal uses Prayer Book English – language derived from the classic books of the Anglican liturgical tradition – that is fully Catholic in expression and content.
Drawn from various Anglican sources and the Third Edition of the Roman Missal, the new missal is an authoritative adaptation of the Roman Rite. Over the past five years, the Vatican – guided by the interdicasterial Anglicanae Traditiones Commission – reviewed and winnowed centuries of Anglican texts dating back to 1549, then assembled the best of them together, in accordance with the Roman Rite. The formal establishment of a missal that uses the great poetic language of the Anglican heritage is a nod to the gift the Ordinariate communities are being asked to pass on to their members and to the entire Catholic Church. Anglicanorum Coetibus, the apostolic constitution that gave a path for Anglican groups to become Catholic, asked the Ordinariates to maintain “elements of their liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions” as a “treasure to be shared” with the wider Church. The promulgation of Divine Worship: The Missal also signifies a benchmark in the liturgical history of the Catholic Church. The new missal marks the first time that the Catholic Church has sanctioned liturgical texts deriving from the Protestant Reformation.The Ordinariate Observer sat down with Msgr. N. Jeffrey Steenson, Ordinary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and Dr. Clint Brand, English Department Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and member of the commission that advised the Vatican on the liturgical texts, to discuss Divine Worship: The Missal. Below are excerpts from that conversation.
The Ordinariate Observer sat down with Msgr. N. Jeffrey Steenson, Ordinary for the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter, and Dr. Clint Brand, English Department Chair at the University of St. Thomas in Houston and member of the commission that advised the Vatican on the liturgical texts, to discuss Divine Worship: The Missal. Below are excerpts from that conversation.
Parish Council 2020

Joe Lopalo
Nancy Lucas
Shelly Hall
Phil Kastner
Building Committee 2020

Dale Williams
Joe Lopalo
Brad Mead
Patty Genster
St John Vianney Catholic Church Cleburne TX.
The Rev. Scott Wooten fr.scott.wooten@ordinariate.net
940-867-3860