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Fr. Paul Nicholson Perceptions of Reality

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 I took a couple of minutes to read all of Fr. Nicholson's screed (fatherpaulnicholson.blogspot.it - The "Scotiabank Cathedral" ).

 The last few of paragraph's, I believe, present his perspective of reality.
In attendance will be, no doubt, the rock stars of the Radical Traditionalist movement.  They will no doubt present themselves for Holy Communion in reverent fashion ... but, like Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi, their reception of Holy Communion will be a painful sight.  Almost all of them, to a man, have created such mistrust of the Holy Father and the sacred Magisterium in the electronic or print media, that it is hard to imagine how they can, in good conscience, present themselves for Holy Communion.  
So let's put something straight: The SSPX has never created a 'mistrust of the Holy Father and the sacred Magisterium in my 30+ years of seeking the sacraments from them. From my perspective, it is the knowledge of and adherence to the sacred Magisterium that is the root cause of the SSPX problems from 1974 until now.  The further that the members of the hierarchy deviate from the magisterium the more glaringly obvious it becomes just who is 'mistrusting the Holy Father (pre-conciliar ones per se) and the Magisterium.



Simply put the post-conciliar Pope's are mistrusting / abusing both the Pre-Concilar Popes and the Magisteriuim.  First, kissing the Koran. No further commentary should be necessary. Next the 'prayer' meeting at Assisi. Likewise, no further commentary necessary.

What do the Traditionalists do in face of such scandalous events - perpetrated by the Popes and hierarchy since the Council?  Unlike Fr. Nicholson and Voris et al, they say: Yep, that's bad ... as in scandalous.  Just like the interim report from the Synod was likewise scandalous.  From Fr. Nicholson and Voris what do we hear, once we learned that it was the Pope who ordered the offending passages re-inserted?  Crickets.  The sound of their silence is deafening.

To be clear, the distrust is well founded and is caused by those departing from the dignity of the offices they hold - even that of the Pontiff.
What a wound will be inflicted on the Heart of Jesus Christ on Saturday, May 9th, 2015!  A schismatic suspended bishop will celebrate the funeral Mass, in defiance of the Church's authority, for the soul of a priest who was suspended,  who never publicly repented of the damage he inflicted upon the Church, accompanied by a great number of laity who have engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Sacred Hierarchy, committing sins against supernatural faith ... these will receive Holy Communion in an objective state of grave sin.  
Obviously, it is pretzel time.

First, Father Nicholson is making a rash judgement with the 'schismatic' canard.  I'm not certain, but the last time I checked he has no canonical authority to make that judgement, so it is basically calumny.

Second, we have the 'defience ...', I think he really has a narrow point of view on the issues that the Church faces as a whole.  Personally, my parents decided to seek the Traditional Mass when it became obvious that the Church was going to hell in a hand-bag.  They intuitively knew that this new 'orientation' - man centered (hey blame Pope Benedict XVI) was not good and that we needed to reset back to before the hand-bag was made.
Be merciful to the Hearts of Jesus and Mary so deeply wounded by this event ... and make reparation for what will happen on Saturday, May 9th at the funeral Mass of Fr. Nicholas Gruner. 
Well, I hope that the Hearts of Jesus and Mary are merciful to Fr. Nicholson, because whatever the circumstance, he is again making a rash judgement that Our Lord and Lady are wounded by this event.

Pray for him and those like him, because I suspect the pretzel knots are going to get tighter as this Pontificate lurches from one Pontifical Interview to the next.

P^3
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