SHADES of LEFEBVRE: New SSPX Superior Speaks

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Tuesday, January 1, 2019 - 23:45
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SHADES of LEFEBVRE: New SSPX Superior Speaks

 

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    Marcus Aurelius Tarkus • 16 days ago

    "...that it would be better for the SSPX to 'regularize' and thus strengthen Tradition in the mainstream."

    For SSPX to do so would indeed be self-destructive. The "mainstream" has continued to be progressively inoculated against tradition for well over half a century. After all that time, the resistance of the mainstream to tradition has become overwhelming, almost to the point of total immunity. What once was the body has become the residue of an enervated virus.

    I sometimes fantasize about attending mass at my NO parish (one of the "conservative" ones) some Sunday to find the Cranmer table gone and a TLM being celebrated without any advance hoopla or notice, just in a quiet return to what was for centuries. The pews would rapidly empty of their shocked and clueless occupants, leaving behind only the likes of yours, truly. At least in the near-term.

    As I have often said: our pre-V2 tradition is the future, but not the immediate future. The Church is currently like an immense ocean-going container ship that has barely stayed afloat, having been set totally off course by the maritime depredations of rogue captains and crews. A small remnant of true and faithful seamen will eventually prevail, but their task of making such a massive course correction will span generations.

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      Lawrence Myers Marcus Aurelius Tarkus • 16 days ago

      Good comment Marcus - I think you will see the TLM restored to Parish Churches - recently a N.O. Parish near to where I live in Sydney has been celebrating the TLM regularly on Sundays and there will be a Midnight TLM on Christmas Eve - the TLM is gradually being restored. Thanks be to God and to the SSPX and the late, great Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

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      Marcus Aurelius Tarkus Lawrence Myers • 15 days ago

      Good news from you, Lawrence, and thank you for it. We will know that our TLM has truly been restored when the NO is no longer dubbed the "ordinary form," but has become extinct both in canon law and in practice.

      The status quo is that the TLM is currently available in a few parishes as kind of a museum piece for the curious and as a very limited gift for traditional Catholics that can be withdrawn at any time. Until it is again the norm, we must treasure it by attending whenever it is available and possible to reach. Equally or more important: we must be ever vigilant against gratuitous or political "changes" being imposed upon it by Rome. Some such occurred during the decades before V2, and others have been rumored and/or threatened more recently. If bergoglioistas wrest control over the Mass of the Ages, the institutional Church is lost.

      As a leukemia patient and recent recipient of a stem cells transplant, my immune system is equivalent to that of an infant, but without the benefit of his mother's immunities. The one reachable TLM (once a week on Sundays) is typically packed to the rafters at its sole location and time. That makes attendance there a high-risk proposition for me, health-wise. I long for the day--soon, I hope--that the risk is minimized by a series of re-inoculations scheduled during first quarter 2019.

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Pegon Zellschmidt • 16 days ago

Let us never forget that two days (after years of argument) after Marcel Lefebvre's consecration of the four bishops, two days later, 'Saint' Pope John Paul ii, 'the Great' recognized the FSSP. Two days later. How revealing. How embarrassing.

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DMill • 16 days ago

Great words from the new SSPX Superior. They clearly intend to continue being the tip of the spear.

I was one of those who, a couple of years ago when it seemed that there would be an agreement between the SSPX and Rome, thought that it would be a great thing to have the society working on the inside without the perceived hammer of "irregularity" available for their enemies to bash them with. Clearly, events have since shown how disastrous that could have been had they done so.

The time will come, but not just yet.
I think that all of us who attend FSSP Churches appreciate the fact that without SSPX there would be no FSSP. Who knows what clandestine catacombs and caverns traditionalists would have to be meeting in to attend a valid Latin Mass were it not for Archbishop Lefebvre and the Society and burden they have borne all these years?

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SJ Green • 16 days ago

Great article. Someone tell Michael Voris and the other folks at Church Militant! They're still following the 'schismatics' line, in spite of the heat that they're taking from the bishops now as well.

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      Mike O'Malley • 16 days ago

      I too am very glad the SSPX exists and is maintaining its firm adherence to Catholic doctrine and practice. I sometimes attend an SSPX mass but it takes some driving to get there. The only thing that I dislike about the SSPX community is a constant focus on raising money. Just like the NO constant appeals for funds for various projects, the SSPX priests are not shy in asking for donations from the laity, including donations at mass, bake sales, fund raising lunches, selling things at the lunches, and the priest circulating at the tables during the lunches selling raffle tickets for a draw. If a priest attends the local community to present some talks we are told how far he has come and asked to donate to defray his expenses. I guess the SSPX needs money and I can be criticized for my attitude, but I get tired of the constant emphasis on raising money in church from the clergy to the laity.

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    Kathleen Mike O'Malley • 11 days ago

    The poor used to give their pennies and time to build great cathedrals. Perhaps we are not as generous on whole so that the priests are reduced to begging. I don't think any of them are getting rich.

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Carol Woolf • 16 days ago

Even if novis ordo masses have been tradition for 50 years, it pales in comparison to traditional Latin Masses. I continually read more and more about new Catholics who try the Latin Mass just to check it out and are smitten by the beauty and holiness. Empty seats will fill and those who leave will return when they find emptiness elsewhere. Latin masses will again be the traditional mass as it was. I'm a convert from age 13. Now as a senior, I can only hope and pray my Church will return. I WILL NEVER LEAVE HER. (So now I'm going to bed with the knowledge that this will be published since it has no vulgar words) good night Matt.

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occiditeomnesursos • 14 days ago

This is a good editorial on the whole.

Sedevacantists are not on-side though. FSSPers and SSPXers can fight like brothers (sometimes with each other, sometimes together against the real enemy) but still recognize the Pope and bishops of the Church. Sedevacantists not only refuse this, but, logically, they could never accept any successor to the post-conciliar Popes as legitimate. Even the future Great Pontiff who with the Great Monarch is expected to preside over the coming restoration and the period of peace. If sedevacantism were correct, then the Papacy is necessarily done, dusted, a thing of the past; there would be no way to revive it. So too with the visible, universal hierarchical Church. Sedevacantism is a hopeless dead-end.

I hope that Fr. Pagliarani acts as a stabilizing influence in the Society and in particular that reconciliation can occur between people who became divided over Bp. Fellay's regularization efforts.

We know who the real enemies are.

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    Philip Michael Allen • 13 days ago

    I thank God with all my heart for making it possible for my wife and I to attend SSPX Masses every Sunday and Holy Days. If I thought that there was even a hint of schism emanating from the Society, I too, would not attend, but all I have ever seen is the consistent example of faithful, holy priests and religious. Sadly, the only time that I have witnessed sacrilege and undignified liturgies was in the Novus Ordo liturgies. And, that made my blood boil. The schism lies within their novel, modernist, movement, not in Tradition.

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      Kathleen Philip Michael Allen • 11 days ago

      I'm with you. We discovered the Society a few months ago. How could we have missed out on this for our whole lives?! I wholeheartedly believe that Archbishop Lefebvre was lead by the Holy Spirit.

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Christian Anderle • 11 days ago

We know from "The Barque of Paul," how difficult it was for Paul VI to be constantly reminded of the truth by Archbishop Lefebvre. Similarly, Francis stated that it hurts him to be called a heretic and that he avoids reading the websites of the resistance "for sake of mental health." That's indicative of serious cognitive dissonance. They wouldn't care at all about the small groups of traditionalists, no more than they care about the Union of Utrecht, if the traditionalists were not *right*. Archbishop Lefebvre is the lone hero who made it all possible. Few people understand how heavy the cross was he had to bear. Let's pray that Fr. Davide Pagliarani stays strong in faith and can live up to the responsibility that now weighs on his shoulders.

 

 

 

 

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The words of the new superior general of the SSPX are sweet relief to many who had grown anxious about the SSPX seemingly being able to bend over backwards for regularisation.

It would seem that those fears can be put to bed, at least for the time being. We need the SSPX fighting uncompromisingly to restore Sacred Tradition and authentic Catholic worship to the pride of place it belongs within Holy Mother Church.