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Credidimus Caritati - French Blog - Even in the Crisis: Gentleness, Kindness, Patience and Forebearance - Updated

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For those readers who understand french or who can tolerate a google translation, the blog Credidmus Caritati was recently recommended to me by a French SSPX priest.

The blog "focuses on the spiritual legacy of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (1905-1991) whose episcopal motto was Credidimus caritati (We believed in charity)."

As such the articles focus on the sermons that have a spiritual aspect to them. This is crucial in this long crisis of the Church as without a solid spiritual life as foundation, many crumble under the pressure of the attacks of the world, flesh and devil.

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Courtesy of Credidimus Caritati

French:
Mgr Marcel Lefebvre : A l’intérieur, la mer ne bouge pas
Les témoins de la cérémonie des sacres de 1988 ont témoigné du fait que le fondateur de la FSSPX avait débuté de manière très sereine la fameuse journée du 30 juin. Toute sa vie a consisté à ne pas trop s’émouvoir des événements qu’il vivait, ni des pressions qu’il subissait. Des avanies, des défections, des humiliations, il en a connu. Il ne s’en est pas tourmenté. Bien des évêques, autour de lui, ont flanché et ont abandonné. Les esprits peuvent s’agiter et même se passionner. Qu’importe. Mgr Lefebvre invite à toujours rester debout et à persévérer dans le calme et la détermination.

« Il ne faut pas que nous ayons une instabilité constante dans notre vie spirituelle. C’est anormal. Un chrétien, un vrai chrétien, un chrétien qui a la foi ne devrait pas être instable dans sa vie spirituelle, ne devrait pas être un jour dans l’euphorie, le lendemain dans le découragement, dans l’inquiétude, dans l’angoisse, dans la tristesse, et puis tout à coup dans la joie. Ce n’est pas une vie chrétienne normale.


« Une vie chrétienne normale, qui est vraiment fondée en Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, en sa divinité, dans toutes les vertus que Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ nous enseigne, devrait être une vie stable, une vie profonde, pour laquelle, je dirais, les événement qui pourraient éventuellement secouer un peu sa vie spirituelle et sa vie surnaturelle, ne sont que des événements de surface comme les vagues de la mer. La mer ne bouge pas à l’intérieur. Les sous-marins qui sont à l’intérieur de l’eau sont toujours dans la tranquillité. Il n’y a pas de vagues là-dessous. Mais évidemment, au fur et à mesure que l’on remonte à la surface, on commence à sentir les vagues, même la tempête éventuellement. Et bien, ça ne devrait pas changer notre intérieur. Même si il y a quelques vagues de surface, même si il y a quelques événements de surface, ça devrait rester stable.

« Et ça, c’est une chose, malheureusement, qui existe même encore aujourd’hui. Quelquefois j’ai un peu de peine de sentir que même parmi ceux qui sont passés par ici, il y en a quelques-uns qui sont comme ça un peu secoués profondément et qui seraient tentés quelquefois de se laisser aller à des décisions qui sont anormales. […] On doit s’attacher à Notre Seigneur de toute son âme et, par conséquent se détacher des autres choses, ne pas être attachés à sa famille, aux siens, à sa patrie, à tout ce qui est secondaire par rapport à Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ, même si on nous demande de quitter notre patrie pour aller évangéliser une autre nation. C’est toujours Notre Seigneur, c’est toujours l’Évangile, c’est toujours le règne de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ. Le fait de changer de région, le fait de changer d’espaces, qu’est-ce que ça peut faire ? Au contraire.


« Peut-être justement qu’une foi profonde dans la divinité de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ nous met nécessairement dans l’humilité. C’est la première conséquence de l’adoration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ. C’est pour cela que notre Sainte Messe est si belle, parce qu’elle constamment une manifestation de l’adoration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ. »

Mgr Marcel Lefebvre, conférence du 8 juin 1978

English

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre : Beneath the surface, the sea does not move
Witness the sacred ceremony of 1988 testified that the founder of the SSPX started in a very serene the famous day of June 30. All his life has been not too moved by the events he lived , nor pressure he was under . Of insults , defections , humiliation , he knew. It is not tormented . Many bishops around him , have flinched and dropped . The spirits can shake and even passionate . Whatever. Lefebvre calls to stand still and to persevere in the calm and determination.

"It is not necessary that we have a constant instability in our spiritual life. This is abnormal. A Christian, a true Christian , a Christian who has faith should not be unstable in his spiritual life , should not be a day in the euphoria , the next day in discouragement, in anxiety, in anguish, in sadness, and then suddenly in joy. This is not a normal Christian life.


"A normal Christian life , which is really based in our Lord Jesus Christ, in His divinity in all virtues that Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us , should be a stable life , deep life, for which I would say , the event could possibly shake a little spiritual life and supernatural life , are only surface events like the waves of the sea the sea does not move inside. Submarines that are inside the water are always in peace . There are no waves down there . But of course, as and when it rises to the surface , we begin to feel the waves , even the storm eventually. Well, it should not change our interior. Although there are some surface waves , although there are some surface events , it should remain stable.

" And that is something , unfortunately, that exists even today . Sometimes I have a little trouble feeling that even among those who have passed through here , there are a few that are like that a little shaken and deeply tempted sometimes to let go of decisions that are abnormal . [...] We must focus on our Lord with all his soul , and therefore away from the other things , not being attached to his family, his family, his country , all that is secondary to our Lord Jesus Christ , even if we are asked to leave our homeland to evangelize another nation. It is always Our Lord is always the Gospel is always the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Changing region , the fact of changing spaces , what difference does it make ? Instead .


" Maybe just a deep faith in the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ brings us necessarily in humility. This is the first consequence of the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is why our Mass is so beautiful because it constantly a manifestation of the worship of our Lord Jesus Christ. "

Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, Conference June 8, 1978







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