Author Topic: SSPX Public MassConfession (Read 942 times)

Ascetik · « **on:** October 07, 2012, 07:39:56 PM »

Hey everybody!

So I have been going to SSPX daily mass when I can because it is very close to my house and I agree with the SSPX on Vatican II containing errors, etc.

I also have a great respect for FSSP priests, at least most of them because I was brought to tradition by that order. Fr. Ripperger seems to be one of the smartest priests I've ever heard speak, but in a certain talk (http://en.gloria.tv/?media=170996) Father states that because the SSPX lacks jurisdiction it is a sin to attend public masses, and I have been doing this for awhile and receiving communion there, but a priest that I confess to occasionally before I heard this talk, said that it was ok to attend the SSPX masses but not go to confession there.

Now what doesn't make sense to me, if Fr. Ripperger is right, then the priest who told me I can go to the SSPX masses is wrong. On the hand, if I accept the argument about jurisdiction being supplied to the SSPX because of the crisis in the church, then that makes all this null and void and I should continue to attend and even start going to confession at the SSPX chapel too.

I hate to trouble people with this question, but it bothers me. And I just want to do whats right. I believe there is a crisis in the church and that the SSPX is truly Catholic. I have also been amongst many FSSP priests who believe the same thing, but say they don't agree with the 88 consecrations.

Regardless of that, what should I do? I am just confused now by what Fr. Ripperger said.

Anybody have any advice for me?

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** October 07, 2012, 08:08:59 PM »

The SSPX operates under the principle "The salvation of souls is the highest law" which is indeed what the Catholic Church must go by.

In other words, all other laws go under that main principle.

So when the salvation of souls is at stake, a priest can always say Mass or hear confessions, no matter what his "juridical standing" with the Church.

The Church supplies jurisdiction in many cases, including today. It's common sense.

There is a crisis in the Church today. If you don't believe that, you might as well go to the Novus Ordo. But all the proof/evidence is that the Novus Ordo is destructive of the faith, and hence destructive of souls! So we can't attend. Thus we have to attend Tridentine Masses, even if the priest doesn't have the rubber-stamp of Rome.

Remember, we're not arguing the pros/cons of the Novus Ordo in 1972 here, this is 2012. We have 42 years of hard experience which PROVES everything Cardinal Ottaviani/Bacchi, as well as others such as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, warned us would happen.

We can't claim ignorance as an excuse. Today, we KNOW the Novus Ordo destroys the faith, and causes souls to go to hell.

Vladimir · « **Reply #2 on:** October 07, 2012, 08:16:59 PM »

for laypeople it seems like the deepest one has to take this into consideration is...."are the SSPX (or fill in the blank _____) priests Catholic?" "Yes." "Then why not receive the sacraments from them?!?!?"

Ascetik · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2012, 09:41:45 PM »

Thanks, that makes me feel a bit better, maybe it's just an attack from the devil to keep me away from going to mass so much. I really enjoy going to the SSPX, and I really want to apply to their seminary but I have about 10k of student loan debt and am only working part-time.