St John Vianney Cleburne, TX
Is a Catholic Church under the Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter
Saturday, Sunday Masses & Confessions
Marti Elementary School, 2020 W. Kilpatrick, Cleburne, TX
Monday - Friday Daily Mass & Confession:
Our Lady of Victory Chapel, 501 N. Nolan River Rd, Cleburne, TX 76033
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Spiritdaily.com article Mar 28, 2022
The Drama Of A Consecration And A Message
There it was, in undeniable print, on live-streams, in videos, in photographs, for all with eyes and ears:
A drama on two huge fronts.
One: The Church.
There was the stunning Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested in 1917 at Fatima — stunning in several keys ways. Not since Pope Pius XII proclaimed the Dogma of the Assumption in 1950 was there such a public display of Church action coupled with supernaturalism.
During that proclamation years ago, Pius saw the “miracle of the sun,” likening it to the descriptions from Fatima. Thus were apparitions of Mary involved.
One could possibly go back even further, to 1884 and the vision Pope Leo XIII reportedly had of Satan assuming extended power over the earth, which led that Pontiff to refine and institute the Prayer to the Archangel Michael. That too had been in the mystical realm.
There was the historic component: Here the Consecration conducted last Friday brought to mind previous such consecrations linked to Fatima, one of which, in 1984, by John Paul II, did not mention Russia by name but led, according to a Fatima seer, to the fall several years later of Communism first in Eastern Europe and then the diabolical Soviet Union itself. There was a “period of peace,” as promised at Fatima — but only, as we have seen, a period.
In a surprisingly hard-hitting prayer that struck at the Ukrainian war, Pope Francis boldly challenged one of the three most powerful nations on earth, while castigating the rest of humanity for its waywardness — which he indicated had led to the current crisis.
There was the theo-political aspect: Pope Francis, widely perceived as “liberal,” not only consecrated Russia, but did so in a fashion dear to the hearts of most traditionalists, conducting it in union with all the bishops as well — crucially — as naming Russia (twice). This went a step further than actions taken by previous Popes considered more conservative and led even to a major liberal Catholic columnist pondering whether Francis is a closet “traditionalist.”
That in itself was enough to startle — and lent an opportunity for healing rifts, for not in many years has the Church appeared as united as it did on Friday, with uncounted Catholics worldwide reciting the Consecration prayer together.
There was the tie to Medjugorje — which Pope Saint John Paul II called “the fulfillment of Fatima.” Scroll down to bottom see Drama continued
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How to donate:
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Checks to St. John Vianney, memo, Ukraine Refugees in Poland
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stjohnvianneycleburne.com website – special button- Ukraine Refugees in Poland
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Go to or mail checks to Pinnacle Bank Cleburne: St. John Vianney Catholic Church – Ukraine Refugees in Poland Acct – very important
- Contact: stjohnvianneycleburne@yahoo.com 817-558-2518
May God bless your prayers and generosity!
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THIS COMING WEEK'S MASS TIMES
Wed - Mar 30
5:00pm - Eucharistic Adoration - Happy Hour with Jesus
5:15pm Confessions
6:00pm Stations of the Cross
6:30pm Mass
7:00pm Choir
Thurs - Mar 31
8:30am Mass
Fri - Apr 1 - 1st Friday - Obligatory Abstinence
11:00am - Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament - prayer for peace
Noon - Mass
6:00pm - Stations of the Cross following dinner at Kinler's
Sat - Apr 2 - 1st Sat BVM Pope St. John Paul II died Sat, Apr 2, 2005
Marti Elementary
4:15pm Confessions (closet in back of stage)
5:00pm Vigil Mass
Sun - Apr 3 - 5th Sunday in Lent- Passion Sunday
Marti Elementary
8:15am Confessions (closet in back of stage)
9:00am Sung Mass
Religious Ed
Mon - Apr 4 - St. Isidore Bishop
11:15am Confessions
Noon Mass
Tues - Apr 5 - St. Vincent Ferrer
11:15am Confessions
Noon Mass
Wed - Apr 6 - Rev Wooten attends Houston Chrism Mass
No Eucharistic Adoration
6:00pm Stations of the Cross
No Mass
7:00pm Choir
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Upcoming Easter Triduum Schedule at Marti Elementary
Palm Sun - Apr 10
9:00am - Blessing of Palms - Mass
No CCD
Maundy Thurs - Apr 14
6:30pm - Mass - followed by Exposition of the Blessed Sacrament
Good Friday - Apr 15 - Fast & Abstinence
6:30pm - Veneration of the Cross
Holy Saturday - Apr 16 - Easter Vigil
8:30pm - Bonfire on site at 2825 FM 4 (Kilpatrick) weather permitting
Then all proceed to Marti Elementary School
Vigil Mass - Baptism, 1st Holy Communion, Confirmation
Easter Sunday - Apr 17
9am Sung Mass
No CCD
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Parish Lenten Stations of the Cross and Fellowship
Dinner starts at 6 pm and Stations of the Cross begin at 6:45 pm
Friday April 1st – Kinler’s – 6601 E FM 4, Grandview Tx, 76050
Friday April 8th – Carmona’s – 7301 CR 205, Grandview Tx, 76050
This is a good way to deeper our Lenten family experience. Thanks to the Kinlers and the Carmonas for providing this unique opportunity for our parish families. More information to follow.
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We thank God for and congratulate David and Hannah Howe on the birth of their 3rd child, a little girl, born Tuesday, March 8! Help us Welcome their new little one and all the Howe’s to our Parish family.
Karoline Franklin has graciously set us up a Meal Train account online so parishioners can sign up to provide and/or deliver meals or donate funds to the Howe’s and other families in the future. Please see the meal train link below. If anyone needs help signing up for a day, Karoline is happy to help. Just call or text her at 972-922-6164.
We are in hopes that we can fill up all the dates with meals for this sweet family! The Howe’s also have two adorable little boys, William and Joseph.
Thank you for helping SJV celebrate God’s blessing of children.
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LECTIONARY FOR THIS WEEK.
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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 join us on the second Monday of each month at the Our Lady of Victory Chapel, we start with the Rosary at 6:15pm.
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Drama Continued:
There was the tie to Medjugorje — which Pope Saint John Paul II called “the fulfillment of Fatima.”
The very day of the Consecration — March 25 — was not just the hugely major Marian feast of the Annunciation, but also the day (the twenty-fifth of each month) that the Virgin at Medjugorje still relates a message for the world. The message on Friday, March 25, 2022, was directly connected to the Consecration — to an action of the Church — in a way never seen before.
In his prayer of Consecration, the Pope implored the Blessed Mother to bring peace and said, “Now with shame we cry out: Forgive us, Lord!”
In her message that day, Mary said, “I am listening to your cry and prayers for peace.”
In the Consecration prayer, Pope Francis mentioned “the mystery of iniquity that is evil and war.”
In her message at Medjugorje that same day, Mary said, “For years, Satan has been fighting for war.”
The Pope, in his prayer, said the Consecration was coming “at this dark hour.”
At Medjugorje, Mary had once said the world was covered with darkness and that the current moment was “the hour of the power of darkness.”
The Consecration prayer implored Mary under several titles, including “Queen of Peace” — the title by which she goes at Medjugorje. Just as the Pope named the sinfulness of mankind as leading to the war, Mary said she was inviting humanity “to be good on earth and overcome the crisis you fell into because you did not listen to God.”
(There was also a link to another supernatural devotion, “Our Lady, Undoer of Knots,” when, calling out to Mary, the Pontiff said, “you are able to untie the knots of our hearts and of our times.”)
Was there a tie between the Consecration and the secrets at Medjugorje?
The Pope mentioned “the menace of nuclear weapons.”
In an interview after the Medjugorje message, Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti, the seer who receives it, when asked by a priest named Father Livio Fanzaga who interviewed her if she thought “there is a danger of a nuclear world war” (or whether it was “just the devil’s way of frightening”), replied, “Er, I don’t want to go into the secrets.”
One might add that the Medjugorje message directly cited a war — the Russian-Ukrainian one — as did a secret at Fatima, which mentioned World War One and World War Two by name. That the Consecration took place during pandemic and military confrontation brought to mind how Fatima occurred after the First World War and just before a historic pandemic of influenza.
This is the question of the hour.
A crossroads is an endpoint, a final decision, choosing one way or the other, in this case between worldliness and the darkness of Satan and the Light of Jesus and God. Events seem to be concatenating in a way that draws ever closer to secrets.
Yet Marija also said, “Did you see me upset Father Livio?” and when the questioner (from Radio Maria) replied, “no,” continued:
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“We believe as Our Lady says: ‘I listen to your cry and your prayers.’ And as she herself has told us a thousand times: ‘God has allowed me to be among you to help you.’ I am convinced that this is exactly how it has been in these forty years of her presence. Humanity is at a crossroads and as Our Lady said in various messages, Satan is free from his shackles in this new millennium. We know that evil also exists through our selfishness and our arrogance.
“Often, we too do evil things because we do not have that sensitivity and that love of God that is within us, but we live with the humanity of a rebellious man without following the commandments. Precisely for this reason, she is here, with her sweetness and constancy, for forty years among us, to tell us that God is with us, and we must not be afraid.”
[resources: books on Medjugorje and Fatima] Spiritdaily.com article Mar 28, 2022
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