While it is clear that we should avoid the Novus Ordo Mass if there is no TLM available I am wondering does the same apply to the Indult Masses? If no Resistance or SSPX Mass is available is it better to avoid an Indult Mass from the ICKSP or FSSP and spend the Lord's Day in prayer and reading Scripture?

Yes.

As Lefebvre said, when you go to that Mass, you don’t just attend that Mass, but an entire milieu:

There’s the advice in the confessional; the sermon; the conversations over coffee after Mass; the new fasting discipline; biritual clergy (sometimes); priests and faithful defending the orthodoxy of the errors of the Council and post-conciliarists reforms.

Eventually, some of those germs penetrate your immune system, and the conversion process begins.

Some might opine that even a willingness to attend an indult is itself already a sign of conciliar infection.

Mr. Salza is a good example of this (he admits to never having completely left conciliar indult Masses, and today, he defends V2 and opposes Lefebvre almost across the board).

Going beyond the Mass, in the wake of Francis’s Traditionis Custodes, it seems the questionable forms of the new sacraments will be used by these same groups (which might include invalid last rites performed with vegetable oil), etc.

All of that bound up together might present or introduce obstacles to persevering in the Faith.

Yes.

As Lefebvre said, when you go to that Mass, you don’t just attend that Mass, but an entire milieu:

There’s the advice in the confessional; the sermon; the conversations over coffee after Mass; the new fasting discipline; biritual clergy (sometimes); priests and faithful defending the orthodoxy of the errors of the Council and post-conciliarists reforms.

Eventually, some of those germs penetrate your immune system, and the conversion process begins.

Some might opine that even a willingness to attend an indult is itself already a sign of conciliar infection.

Mr. Salza is a good example of this (he admits to never having completely left conciliar indult Masses, and today, he defends V2 and opposes Lefebvre almost across the board).

Going beyond the Mass, in the wake of Francis’s Traditionis Custodes, it seems the questionable forms of the new sacraments will be used by these same groups (which might include invalid last rites performed with vegetable oil), etc.

All of that bound up together might present or introduce obstacles to persevering in the Faith.

Thanks for the guidance. I just wasn't sure how to reconcile my obligation to attend Mass and the potential to attend a licit TLM that is however contaminated with the heresies of V2. I certainly understand how it can undermine one's Faith and anger God even if the Mass itself is valid and licit.

In terms of endangering your faith, I submit that it would be more dangerous to listen to Father Robinson, SSPX sermons than that of many of the Motu priests I have known.  Most NO sermons are just insipid and touch-feely, but rarely do you find heterodox sermons at a Motu Mass ... since they tend not to touch on what they consider controversial theological matters.  They tend to play it safe ... except one priest I knew that essentially condemned the entire Conciliar hierarchy from the pulpit.

Besides that, we're not talking necessarily about a REGULAR attendance at Motu Masses.  Take a scenario where you're travelling and you can't find a "Trad" chapel.  There's a Motu Mass with a valid and orthodox priest in the vicinity.  I would hold that you are required to assist at said Mass to fulfill your obligation.  Please provide rational arguments against that scenario, not just political and emotional stuff.

I believe the doubtful nature of their holy orders is sufficient enough reason to avoid the Indult. Yes, there may be some who are undoubtedly validly ordained as Lad stated, but the vast majority are ordained in the new rite OR ordained in the trad rite by bishops of doubtful ordination. And these are things you would have to actually look into in order to know, not something outward to determine just because the apparent priest says orthodox sermons, has pretty vestments and well-dressed parishioners.

We're in a spiritual war here, we have to make sure we're receiving the aid of actual sacraments, not apparent or presumed sacraments. So I'm with Sean on this one. Avoid it unless you know with CERTAINTY that it is a validly ordained priest.

That is my OPINION as well.

This whole thread is touching on prudence, not dogma. It's all about the Crisis, which means you can't really condemn any honest solution or response. So all I can give here is my opinion.

Bravo.  That’s a huge point to keep in mind as well (and the reason I do not attempt to rebut Ladislaus here).

If no Resistance or SSPX Mass is available is it better to avoid an Indult Mass from the ICKSP or FSSP and spend the Lord's Day in prayer and reading Scripture?

In my 40 years of participating in the tridentine mass solely by independent and sspx priests, my answer to your question is an emphatic "no", because God knows your heart.

Fr. Wathen said:

"People should know that attending the Indult Mass represents a very serious compromise of their faith. Before a bishop allows the Traditional Latin Mass in one of his Novus Ordo churches, according to papal direction, he exacts this commitment: Those to whom the Mass is made available must give a verbal acceptance to the Second Vatican Council and to the new mass.

 Whether they know it or not, everyone who attends the Indult Mass makes the same implicit commitment. In the days of the Rome persecutions, a Catholic could escape martyrdom if he would burn the tiniest pinch of incense before one of the countless Roman gods. The commitment which the pope and bishops require is that pinch of incense."