Immaculata Consecration, Fr Bisig, Cardinal Gagnon's Report, SSPX - A Work of the Church, Attendance at Mass (SSPX), SSPX and Rome, The First Gospel

JMJ

The Immaculata Consecration has taken place and a more normal situation has been put in place for the SSPX in St. Marys, Kansas. I remember the packed Assumption Chapel ( the school's former refectory) and the embellishments made to make it a worthy place for the Holy Mass. I remember Fr. De La Tour giving a talk on the great churches of Europe and ended by making an appeal for the rebuilding of the Immaculata.

Thus began a decades long project to rebuild the church. Initially, they put a new roof on the top of the old bell tower to slow its decay. Then there was the cleaning of wreckage and conversion of the old cistern to the north into a workshop. Eventually, it was realized that there wasn't sufficient room on the site and so a new site was sought. Eventually, as related by Bishop Fellay, a new site near the cemetery at the North of the property was selected.

Interestingly, this new Church will further create a 'separation' between the Mass Centre and the School. Gone will be the days when the Dorm boys will be able to sneak glances and the Town girls when in chapel :-).

Fr. Bisig has made a tour and accused Archbishop Lefebvre or being a sede-vacantist. That the nine were expelled for that reason seems to have been lost on him. Oh well. nuff said on this matter.

So there's more 'schism' chatter about the SSPX. Most get it 'mostly' right in that it is an act of schism to refuse submission to the Vicar of Christ. However what more get it 'mostly' wrong in thinking that an act of disobedience is equivalent to an act of schism.

Those who persist in believing that off the cuff remarks by people or remarks that don't actually mean what they think they mean or believe that a Pope can retroactively make a law mean something else are simply wrong.

The truth is simpler, a schismatic act that confirms the refusal of submission to the Vicar of Christ is a definitive act, like setting up a separate hierarchy. The SSPX stands ready to accept and obey any legitimate command that doesn't endanger the Faith.

Periodically, old articles surface in internet feeds and the one from 2018 regarding the Doctrinal divide between the SSPX and Rome is one of them. If anything, one could propose that the divide continues to grow.

There are other interesting articles, but I lead them for your reading pleasure.

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The myth of the Hermeneutic of Continuity - Rorate Caeli

+ JMJ Interestingly the complete acceptance of the Second Vatican Council (without reservations) is required of the SSPX. Just when people are starting to wonder how it came to this! Courtesy of Rorate Caeli P^3

Of the Church and the Pope - Fr. Calmel O.P.

+ JMJ Once again, looking back to see if the 'Traditional Catholics' in the early days of this crisis of the Church had a sufficient view to realize the roots of the crisis. The root: The Pope Hence when the Pope is 'righted' the Church will be 'righted'. P^3 Courtesy of SSPXasia Fr. Roger Calmel, O.P. This essay by Fr. Roger Calmel, O.P. (1914-75) helps us in these difficult times to preserve our love of the Church. More than 30 years after its first publication, this article retains all its relevance, so much so that it even seems to have been written for our time, in which the crisis in the Church deepens at an unprecedented pace. This essay will help the reader to think clearly, keep the Faith, and maintain serenity in the troubled times we are navigating. “My country has hurt m e,”wrote a young poet in 1944 during the purge 1 when the head of state [Charles De Gaulle] implacably pursued the sinister job that had been in the wo...

A Look Back: Archbishop Lefebvre’s Prophetic Address to The Remnant, 1976

+ JMJ Looking back is important to understand why we are where we are in this crisis. Courtesy of RemnantNewsPaper P^3 FOR THE FIRST TIME ONLINE: Archbishop Lefebvre’s Prophetic Address to The Remnant, 1976 Written by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre Introduction by Michael J. Matt More than forty years ago—during the disastrous reign of Pope Paul VI, the latest candidate for a Vatican-issued Halo Award, by the way—my father, Walter L. Matt, organized the first large scale public reception in the U.S. for the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. It was held at the Radisson South Hotel, Minneapolis, on Tuesday, May 12, 1976, and its stated purpose was to assist the Archbishop in gaining a stronger foothold for the Society of St. Pius X in the States during the unprecedented crisis Blessed Pope Paul had helped unleash on the Church. On that occasion Archbishop Lefebvre delivered ...

Benefit of the Doubt

+ JMJ Introduction !!! From my point of view and based on my understanding of the events !!! At this point it seems that Cardinal Fernandez et al are either malicious, incompetent or geniuses. I'm only partly kidding ... Aside from the surprisingly magnanimous action of Pope Francis providing the SSPX priest with faculties for confession and ability to witness marriages, there has been a long silence between Rome and the SSPX with little or no formal talks or discussions regarding the SSPX state of canonical limbo. While the FSSP et al were able to meet with Pope Leo XIV, while requests from the SSPX went unanswered ... that is until after the latest unanswered request they announced the date for the consecration of four new bishops. Only then did the Vatican apparatus lumber into motion. A meeting was held and the speed with which the Vatican issued its press release - within hours of the meeting's conclusion - felt to me like a pre-planned attempt at manipulation that fell s...

Rome,the SSPX and this time of Crisis - Updated

+ JMJ Obviously there's lots of events right now. First we have the April 1st - I almost thought it was April Fools - meeting between Pope Francis and Bishop Fellay. Nothing really news worthy as this is a natural progression as Rome appears to be considering fulfilling Archbishop Lefebvre's wish to 'accept us as we are'. Second we have the April 8th publication of what will be a verbose exhortation of the Synod of the Family. I'm willing to bet that the Pope will give with one hand (unilateral regularization of SSPX) and take with the other (ambiguous document that opens the flood gates of sin further). Much to pray for. P^3

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