Showing posts with label SSPX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SSPX. Show all posts
“SSPX Episcopal Consecrations – Ignoring the Past” – Guest article by Joseph Bevan
“We do not want to separate ourselves from Rome, we belong to the Church” - Interview with Fr Pfluger SSPX on new episcopal consecrations
The following excerpt is translated from InfoCatolica; the original in Spanish, published on November 22, 2024, may be found here.
| Fr Stefan Pfluger, SSPX |
The FSSPX will in the future negotiate with Rome for authorization to ordain new bishops
Fr. Stefan Pfluger, superior of the German district of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X (FSSPX), gave an interview to the Catholic weekly Die Tagespost on the relationship of his fraternity with the Apostolic See. After the death of Bishop Tissier de Mallerais, the need to ordain more bishops may arise, something for which they will negotiate with Rome.
Rest in Peace, Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais
Rorate has learned H. E. Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais has died in Sion, Switzerland. He had been under hospital care since suffering an unfortunate fall, a few days ago.
Good and Faithful Servant: may he rest in peace!
His funeral Mass and rite of interment will take place in the Seminary of Saint Pius X, in Écône, Switzerland, next Friday, October 18, 2024, at 9:30 am, local time.
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Bernard Tissier de Mallerais was born on September 14, 1945, in Sallanches (Haute-Savoie), France, not far from the Swiss-French-Italian border, in a strongly Catholic family. Following his university studies, dedicated to biology, he joined the Seminary of Saint Pius X (still in Fribourg, in its early years), studying for the priesthood under the guidance of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. He was ordained to the Holy Priesthood on June 29, 1975, in Écône.
New Memoir Recalls Conciliar Turmoil in Parishes and Families
| Downside Abbey, where many events narrated in Two Families took place |
Those who move in traditional circles in the UK tell me that “everyone has heard of the Bevans.” They are a large and highly musical clan whose members have been singing for decades in liturgies and concerts. Os Justi Press is proud to have just released Joseph Bevan’s book Two Families: A Memoir of English Life During and After the Council.
In running through his eventful life, Bevan vividly describes what the practice of Catholicism was like before, during, and after the Council: he shows the strengths and weaknesses of the preconciliar routine, the confusion unleashed in the 1960s, the collapse of the liturgy and especially of sacred music “in real time,” as it was unfolding.
Heard in the SSPX Priories: A Consecration of New Bishops for the SSPX is coming, sooner rather than later
We can't add much more right now, but talk is growing.
The SSPX leadership will obviously request Rome's approval, as Abp. Lefebvre himself requested in 1987/1988 (with unclear, then clear, results...), but what exactly will unfold is unclear at the moment.
We'll have more to add soon.
North American Martyrs' Pilgrimage - Auriesville, NY - Sep. 16, 2023
Pilgrimage of Tradition to North American Martyrs Shrine
(Click for larger view)
Open letter by Dominican theologian Fr. Wojciech Gołaski: “I must bear witness to the treasure of the holy rites of the Church”
The following open letter to Pope Francis was composed by Fr. Wojciech Gołaski O.P. and has been published already in Polish. Below is the English translation that was provided to Rorate Caeli by the author. Regardless of where one stands on the question of the SSPX, it deserves an attentive reading for its formidable critique of “Traditionis Custodes.”
| Fr. Wojciech Gołaski O.P. |
Jamna, August 17, 2021
SSPX Superior-General: We offer all "the certitude that the Traditional Mass will never disappear from the face of the earth."
Letter from the Superior General of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, in light of the publication of the motu proprio “Traditionis custodes”
THIS MASS, OUR MASS, MUST REALLY BE FOR US LIKE THE PEARL OF GREAT PRICE IN THE GOSPEL, FOR WHICH WE ARE READY TO RENOUNCE EVERYTHING, FOR WHICH WE ARE READY TO SELL EVERYTHING.
Dear members and friends of the Priestly Society of Saint Pius X,
The motu proprio Traditionis custodes and the letter that accompanied it have caused a profound upheaval in the so-called traditionalist movement. We can point out, quite logically, that the era of the hermeneutics of continuity, with its equivocations, illusions and impossible efforts, is radically over – swept aside with a wave of a sleeve. These clear-cut measures do not directly affect the Society of Saint Pius X. However, they must be an occasion for us to reflect deeply on the situation. To do so, it is necessary to step back and ask ourselves a question that is both old and new: Why is the Tridentine Mass still the apple of discord after fifty years?
Watch the SSPX ordinations live this Friday
This Friday, June 11, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) will live stream their ordinations to the Priesthood and Diaconate. Three priests and six deacons will be ordained this year, and this is the first year they will livestream the ordinations from the Seminary.
We all know what's going on these days. These new priests and future priests may be direly needed in the near future.
A Tribute to Father Yves Normandin (1925 – 2020), Hero of the Traditional Mass in Canada: “We ought to obey God, rather than men.”
A Tribute to Father Normandin (1925 – 2020)
by Jean-Claude Dupuis, PhD
Father Yves Normandin died on December 30, 2020. He left his mark on the history of the Church in Quebec. In 1975, the humble parish priest of Sainte-Yvette in Montreal became famous for continuing to celebrate the traditional Mass in Latin. Archbishop Paul Grégoire relieved him of his duties for “disobedience.” Fr. Normandin and his traditionalist supporters occupied the church of Sainte-Yvette illegally for six months.
In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council (1962 – 1965), Fr. Normandin celebrated the Mass of Paul VI like every other priest.
But he began to question it when he learned that Protestant pastors had participated in the planning of the liturgical reform. He was shaken by such texts as the encyclical Pascendi, Pius X’s letter on the Sillon, Louis Salleron’s study La nouvelle messe [The new Mass], the works of Léon de Poncins and Pierre Virion on Freemasonry, and all the writings of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. His conversations with Fathers Noël Barbara and Réal Bleau convinced him.
New Edition of Davies’s Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre
The first volume, published in 1979, recounts the years from 1905-1976, providing a comprehensive collection of source materials essential for serious research on the Archbishop. The words of Davies in his introduction have lost nothing of their timeliness:
Traditional Catholics get French Highest Court for Administrative Matters to Act for the Liberty of the Church when Bishops didn't
Note: The following is an article published in the French daily Le Monde, not known for Catholic sympathy. The remarkable fact referred to in this article is that a group of Traditional Catholic priests and laity brought a suit to what is the French equivalent to the Supreme Court on administrative and governmental matters to celebrate Mass within the situation of the Covid-19 crisis. The French Bishops Conference protested against the situation but did not follow up with an appeal to the Court. This shows where the power lies in the battle that will be engaged in the future between a secular state that is inimical to the Christian faith and its practice and those Catholics who believe and will fight for their rights against a secular and anti-religious State.
The original decisions of the Conseil d'État are available here (the main one is number 440366)
Conseil d’Etat lifts the "disproportionate" ban on religious celebrations in France
By Cécile Chambraud for Le Monde
May 19, 2020
The government has eight days to relax the ban on public religious ceremonies in places of worship, in effect since March 15. The Conseil d’Etat ruled Monday, May 18, that the general and absolute ban on all gatherings in churches, temples, synagogues and mosques, if it could be admitted in the first phase of the fight against the epidemic Covid-19, is “disproportionate” during this period of post-confinement.
You Suggest: Fundraiser in support of SSPX seminarians
From a reader:
St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary of The SSPX is planning a pilgrimage to Lourdes to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the SSPX.
As a fundraiser, they are having a “giveaway” wherein people’s tickets are entered in a drawing to win a 2020 Jaguar XE.
The proceeds go to help the various seminarians, both of the USA and of the seminary in Argentina to make the trip. These seminarians must pay for their own tuition or find their own benefactors because the dioceses they reside in do not provide for them. It will be nearly impossible for the South American Seminarians in particular to make this pilgrimage due to local financial difficulty. As a result the United States Seminarians have taken it upon themselves to raise the money needed for themselves and for their financially strained brothers in Argentina.
Tickets can be obtained for a donation BY CLICKING HERE.
Italy: Prohibition of public participation at Holy Mass: FSSPX Communiqué on the Health Emergency
February 25, 2020
Note
regarding the suspension of Holy Masses
As is known,
the Public Authorities have decided to suspend all public events until March 1st
, as a result of the Coronavirus health emergency.
Consequent
to such a decision even public
celebrations of Holy Masses have in fact been prohibited, whereas markets,
shopping malls and sport-centers remain open.
The St. Pius
X Fraternity, unfortunately, is obliged to suspend all the celebrations with
the participation of the faithful in the
regions involved, not however without denouncing the behavior of the Public Authorities,
who are impeding the Christian population, in such circumstances, from praying
publically to their Creator.
In this regard,
we cannot help being astonished at the lack of appropriate reaction on the part
of the Episcopate which raises its voice against the deforestation of the Amazon,
but accepts, readily, the banning of public worship given to God.
The Priest Who Led Believers into the Temple of the Roman Liturgy
The following article was published in German on November 21st for the 50th Anniversary of the death of Father Sylvester Juergens, the ultimate source of the Angelus Missal, still in use today after eight reprints. It is offered here to Rorate readers in an English translation.
Fr. Sylvester Juergens (1894–1969):
The Priest Who Led Believers into the Temple of the Roman Liturgy
By Clemens Victor Oldendorf
2019 was a year in which many golden anniversaries or fiftieth anniversaries lined up for the Catholic Church, bearing on extolling the liturgical reform of Paul VI or defending the preservation of the liturgical tradition.
On April 3, 1969 Paul VI promulgated his Novus Ordo Missae, which came into force in most countries on November 30, the first Sunday of Advent in 1969. June 5, in that year the feast of Corpus Christi, was the date of the Short Critical Investigation of this new Ordo, addressed with a cover letter by the Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci to Paul VI on September 25, 1969. On October 13, 1969, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre opened his theological study-centre for priestly formation in Friborg, Switzerland, which was, so to speak, the seed from which the tender plant of the Society of St. Pius X was to spring forth.
Swiss Bishop Allows the SSPX to Use Churches After All
| The Church of St. Maurice, Fribourg |
In 2013 we reported that the Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg, Mons. Charles Morerod, OP, had issued a decree allowing Catholic churches in his diocese to be lent to Orthodox churches and Protestant ecclesial communities for ‘pastoral’ reasons, but not to clergy of the SSPX (see here and here). Now an official website of the Swiss Bishops’ Conference reports that Bishop Morerod has allowed the SSPX to use the Chapel of Bourguillon and the Church of St. Maurice (both in Fribourg) for the celebration of their 50th anniversary.
Raising the Cross on the Summit of Grand Garde
The following is the translation of the original article by the FSSPX by a dear reader. Click here to read the full article in French and to see more pictures.
Just over 10 years ago, on February 11, 2009, God called three seminarians of Ecône back to Him. In memory of these three young men, a cross was raised on the summit of Grand Garde in the Swiss Alps, which is directly across the valley from the seminary. The cross was blessed on June 18, 2019, in presence of the whole seminary, the families of the deceased and friends from the canton of Valais.
Preparation
The idea was first proposed in 2013, but remained in the planning stage until spring of 2018. It took a whole year to bring the project to fruition. The cross was made by a carpenter in Valais, another craftsman applied copper plating, a solid foundation had to be designed and prepared… this took a month.
The 70 kg metal base was flown up to the summit by helicopter, together with an air compressor and a drill. The base was sunk 1.6 metres deep into the rock. Another 105 kg had to be carried up by the seminarians.
VIDEO: Largest ever SSPX church to be built and the history of St. Mary's, Kansas
This video isn't short, but it's well worth your time. See a beautiful computer rendering of what will be the largest church the Society has ever built, as well as a wonderful history of St. Mary's, Kansas. If you're inspired, you may CLICK HERE to donate to the church fund.
VIDEO: Ordination day at SSPX seminary in Virginia
Congratulations to the five new priests of the Society of St. Pius X! May God help you save many souls.
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