Has anyone considered moving to Pfeifferville (or the surrounding area)?  

We are seriously discussing moving there within 2 months because the lack of weekly sacraments is really a problem for my family.  We need spiritual directors desperately.  Also our children are not getting the catechesis they need.  


Pros and cons of moving to be near your church?????

I would think long & hard if that's the only reason to move.  The best place for your children to learn their catechism is at their mother's knee.

OP here:  the main reason is the lack of sacraments.  We can't survive with Mass once every 2 months.  

Also, my children are way too old to sit at my knee.

I would move to wherever I could take the Sacraments and attend Mass at least weekly, ideally daily. That is top priority.

That's the issue for us--it's become a bit of a crisis.  We love our Resistance community but this is too hard for our family.  The economy here isn't so great either but that's not part of the equation.  

Mass every other month isn't enough for us and we will not go to the SSPX.

Daily Mass would be wonderful.

Pfeifferville is not the promised land.

Is there nowhere else for you to go to the sacraments?  SSPV?  CMRI?  Independent?  Why won't you go to the SSPX?  

Caution.

First of all, these situations are volatile.

Secondly, it probably won't fix the problems with your children. If you don't see that the reason your children aren't catechized is likely your fault, and that your problem is in the home, the only person who can truly resolve this is you. Teach them yourself, get rid of whatever is replacing catechism lessons in the home.

Don't move for the mass without other considerations. You may end up in a situation worse than where you started. Many people move to Omaha, Cincinatti, Spokane, etc. with their children in hopes of correcting wrongs they have already made. It doesn't work out well, often, especially if the children are older. Most people with older children are not financially situated to bounce back from a mistake. Also, in these situations, men have often given up stable jobs and family support, only to flounder in the new location, and cause their families to suffer. Some even move back to where they started.

If you are bent on following with your wagon to Pfiefferville, at least wait a few years to study the situation, talk to people, visit, let them go through their growing pains-- and then evaluate.

I would caution you also that  Pfeifferville might move.

There are several instances of people moving to new Trad priest community locations only to find that the priests moved onto somewhere else.

Father Sim of the Transalpine Redemptorists was given a highly suitable property in Sheppey, England, then moved to Joinville, France for a few years, then to a remote and practically speaking inaccessible island off the cost of Scotland, before folding his community back under the authority of the local bishop.

Families sold up and moved to Sheppey and were left high and dry.

If a couple of dying widows leave their houses to Fr. Pfeiffer in the next five years, you might find he moves to somewhere else and perhaps sends a priest to Pfeifferville once per month.

the lack of weekly sacraments is really a problem for my family

What problems result from the lack of weekly sacraments?  

Just go to SSPX, don't care what people on this forum say about the resistance and the SSPX selling out. You get the true mass there and true doctrine. You need this to overcome habits of sin. If you don't go it is your pride that is stopping you from availing of the sacraments.

If you're so "pro-Society," why are you being disobedient and coming onto CI? You even have to cover up your identity like us "rascals" in the Resistance.

Who made you judge/jury of the people in the Resistance that have a SSPX mass nearby that don't go based on principles and judge them as if they have some sort of inflated "pride?"

I WANT to go back to my independent chapel... but only when the SSPX is gone.