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This is from Binx at IA
Sunday's high mass in Winona was celebrated by the newly ordained, Fr. Reuter, who chose Fr. Hewko to deliver the sermon. And what a sermon it was. I did not take notes, so I'm going from memory only, but I'll try to hit some highlights.
In keeping with the tone established by Bp. Tissier de Malerais in his ordination sermon, Fr. Hewko made a passionate argument for the uncompromising fight that must define the true priest's life.
Over and over and over again, he quoted from Abp. Lefebvre, who warned emphatically against trying to "deal" with modernist Rome.
Fr. Hewko was unabashed in his attack of those who propose to us that Rome has started to return to Tradition. He went through some of the litany of headlines that Berengaria often posts on IA to illustrate just how disingenuous Rome's overtures to Tradition really are.
He warned against anyone who would try to tell us that the documents of Vatican II were merely misinterpreted and not intrinsically flawed.
He warned his fellow priests against being silenced by the obedience card. Specifically, he made mention of a situation, not too many years ago (hint: after VII), when Roman Catholic priests were obedient at precisely the moment they should not have been obedient. He said that leaders should not be obeyed when they jeopardize the true faith.
He also went, one by one, through the end results of those traditionalist groups who have made "deals" with Rome in the past. His basic theme in this section was to emphasize how each of these groups has been "immobilized" by their new master.
All in all, Fr. Hewko was at least as forceful (if not as simple) as Bp. Tissier, and most certainly of the same mind.
The sermon was long, very long, though I do not have a good estimate because I was engrossed (and amazed). Maybe 45 minutes (or more). There were several hundred faithful, a few sisters, and maybe 15 or 20 priests present. [On a side note, Fr. Pfeiffer was there, sitting in the same section as the other priests, though he did not process in with his brothers (he was there long before mass started) and sat many seats removed from them.]
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| Posted Jun 18, 2012, 5:35 am |
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