Author Topic: Sanford SSPX - should I just let it go? (Read 13691 times)

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #30 on:** June 11, 2019, 12:57:53 PM »

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OP wrote: The parishioners in the Sanford chapel are by far the most generous people I have ever known, the work they’ve done in the last 15 years building that place is mind boggling for such a small congregation. The priory was 2000 square foot house, and recently they paid well over $600,000 to make a 2000 square foot addition to the priory. That’s a 4000 sq ft home (in Florida!) for 6 men! Theirs is no way you could call the parishioners anything but astronomical generous. The writer has contributed as much as the most generous.

Why would 6 men need any help? The parishioners do everything and the prior does not lift a finger (and the six men) and he is complaining? I wish I had 5 men to help me.

They must be living in the Twilight Zone.

AlligatorDicax · « **Reply #31 on:** June 11, 2019, 06:19:34 PM »

Quote from: Anonymous on June 11, 2019, 12:57:53 PM

Why would 6 men need any help [to make a 2000 square foot addition to the priory]? The parishioners do everything and the prior does not lift a finger (and the six men) and he is complaining? I wish I had 5 men to help me.

Readers must be astonished that monasteries could've been built in totally unsettled locales [×] by mere monks--and rebuilt--from stone, using mediæval construction technology:
• as magnificent and eventually huge as Monte Cassino

or Cluny [@@];

• as challenging as Citeaux [@@@] or Clairvaux [@@@@@]; or
• an environment as severe as Chartreuse [@@@@] of the Carthusians.

But wait! There are important lessons to be learned from Florida cracker-houses about construction that can make the summer subtropical climate tolerable. That can be creatively combined with the modernish concrete-pad technology that's so well-established in Florida. Not only is concrete-block technology practically universally available, but Florida also has quarries for coquina-rock near St. Augustine (St. Johns Co.), and for more ordinary stone near Ocala (Marion Co.).

Maybe if SSPX is newly determined to indulge in modernist ‘oecuмenism’, they should arrange to have their clergy trained in building construction by Habitat for Humanity".

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Note ×: "totally unsettled locales" meaning locales completely lacking civilized inhabitants, e.g., wood-workers and stone-workers.

Note @: Cassino survives in modern Italy, in inland Lazio (class. Latium), near where an imaginary coastal perpendicular from W.-coastal Gaeta would cross the Liri (River) approx. 1/4 way N.W. across the peninsula.

Note @@: Cluny (est. 910), in Burgundy.

Note @@@: Abb. St. Robert's Citeaux (est. 1098), in Burgundy.

Note @@@@: St. Bruno (of Cologne)'s Chartreuse (Fr. Alps) (est. 1076) of the Carthusians.

Note @@@@@: St. Bernard's Clairvaux (class. clara vallis: "valley of light") (est. 1115), originally the "Valley of Wormwood".

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #32 on:** June 11, 2019, 07:51:11 PM »

Ahhh this particular prior is a nutjob. Well docuмented on here. Years ago when the Resistance came about, many of the hard liner parishioners were pushed out by the prior. When Fr. Hewko had a Mass by the church it was reported that the prior was driving up and down the streets of the church taking a list of who’s car was the Mass. He even went as far as leaving a creepy voicemail banning an usher from St. Thomas More. The usher has since has returned years later.

The prior talks about the comforts others have but the children go to school in portables and have their plays outside while the priests live in a comfortable home with the best wines from Total Wine and home cook meals daily. I guess no one there has culinary skills or can throw things in a crockpot. Fr. Shouldn’t have room talking about people’s comforts when he doesn’t practice what he preaches!

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #33 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:07:52 AM »

From the OP – my final posting
I’ve been going to the Sanford Florida SSPX chapel for many years now, and have seen the prior getting worse and worse in his vitriolic sermons complaining about anything that is not working in EVERY detail as he wants and he always blames the parishioners for everything, never once thinking that if the parishioners are not buying into something it is because the presentation is not attractive, in fact the presentation is scary, for it appears by his vitriol that the prior has lost it. It is anguishing to see the prior open his mouth from the pulpit every Sunday, with his every word he sinks deeper and deeper into appearing to reveal his real hate of the parishioners for not doing everything he says in EVERY detail. The anguishing is not from guilt for the things he blames the people for, but for watching a man appearing to be losing it from the pulpit. People run away from such persons and will do anything to avoid them.

In the martial arts once you lose your temper, you have lost it. One can never openly reveal their anger and hate against people like that without appearing to be unbalanced, and to do it from a pulpit every sermon?

The prior needs to open his eyes to the gifts, the reality, of the extraordinary attention he has received all these years! There is not one chapel in the world where a prior gets the physical attention this prior gets: gourmet meals, wines, washing of clothes, cleaning of the living quarters, cars, drivers, a CPA to do the accounting, gardens plantings and maintenance (on 5 acres), home repairs and maintenance, , $600,000 home addition, a 4000 square foot home for 6 priests, 6 men who do not have to lift a finger to do any of this work,…………. The prior has nothing to go ballistic about, on the contrary, he should be thanking the parishioners from the pulpit every day. Everyone knows this, and that makes his apparent anger and hate of the parishioners even more striking, he is coming off as unbalanced. It is anguishing to watch someone self-destruct like that every Sunday. He needs to get his act together and quick.

“Two men stared out prison bars, one saw mud, the other the stars”.

This is my last posting.

God Bless

Änσnymσus · « **Reply #34 on:** June 12, 2019, 07:17:07 AM »

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From the OP – my final posting
I’ve been going to the Sanford Florida SSPX chapel for many years now, and have seen the prior getting worse and worse in his vitriolic sermons complaining about anything that is not working in EVERY detail as he wants and he always blames the parishioners for everything, never once thinking that if the parishioners are not buying into something it is because the presentation is not attractive,

Snowflake.
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Perhaps your congregation can gather up enough energy so they can petition SSPX for a priest who is a better salesman, one that makes pretty presentations.

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