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Open Letter to the Canadian "Resistors" aka La Resistance

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JMJ



Dear Canadian Resistors,

As the 'resistance' splinters into a number of different factions, this is an opportunity to consider some key questions:
Is a Catholic practicing virtue when they avoid the Sacraments when there is no immediate or proximate danger to the Faith, particularly Sunday Mass - a precept of the Church?


Is a Catholic being presumptuous when, as Fr. Pfeiffer implies, they can survive without the Sacraments when the Sacraments are readily available?
Are the 'resistors' truly preaching the Catholic Faith in its entirety? What about the doctrine of obedience and the Four Marks?


Without an understanding of Church Teaching, your perspective will be warped and as a consequence you will be easily manipulated into following "false prophets".

This is something that should be considered as the Kentucky Faction splinters with Fr. Voight / joins with a Schismatic "Bishop", the UK Faction splinters from Bishop Williamson (as Fr. Pfeiffer already appears to have done), Fr. Chazal splinters from Kentuckey,  and the sedevacantist resistors pick up the pieces.

Whom are you going to follow????

To follow the 'resistance' is to obviously abandon the path of Archbishop Lefebvre who in 1983 stated the following:
We have made no compromise with Rome. That charge is not true. So it is very sad to think that these priests who were ordained by myself and who, after all is said and done, receiving everything from Econe and the Society, should now be turning against the Society. Why? They say we are making compromises, they say we are going to accept the New Mass, they say things of this kind, which are absolutely false. You can see that for yourselves.Archbishop Lefebvre 1983

If you want to follow the path of Archbishop Lefebvre, then humble yourselves, study the Faith in its Catechisms not in the Eleison Comments. Only then will you have the proper perspective to understand Archbishop Lefebvre and not jump to the conclusions that deviate from the Faith.


P^3

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