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Offline Gray2023

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Re: Go forth and LARP!
« Reply #25 on: November 08, 2025, 09:44:12 AM »
What is LARPing anyway?

Re: Go forth and LARP!
« Reply #26 on: November 08, 2025, 10:31:42 AM »


Re: Go forth and LARP!
« Reply #27 on: November 08, 2025, 11:00:17 AM »
No. That's called tradcuмenism. It's toxic and the slow death of tradition.

You have a resistance priest there in spain anyway, so you should go to him.

When you can't get sunday Mass, stay at home and sanctify the Sabbath.
No. That's called common sense. Frankly, I do not see much difference between you and dogmatic Sedes. You both dictate what a Catholic should do as if you were the Church itself. A Catholic - especially if you have children - especially if you have teenage children - would be advised to attend a traditional parish which offers not only the traditional Mass and the traditional sacraments, but stability and a joyful community life. I can only speak for the situation in Ireland, but the Resistance under Bp. Ballini has left a wake of traumatized faithful. Slowly they are beginning to open up and we are told that the atmosphere at their former Mass centres was incredibly toxic and controlling. Everyone was judging each other as to whether they measured up as 'real' Catholics. I stress again, I am not attacking the Resistance wholesale - I understand why many have chosen this route and I am no fan of Bishop Fellay myself. However, stepping out of the frying pan into the fire comes to mind when you objectively compare the situation one left, to the situation offered by Bp. Ballini. Moreover, when you add the fact that an ex-cleric - laicised for child abuse - was secretly introduced to the resistance faithful also, it is clear that each Catholic must weigh up the right decision for themselves in these troubled times. There is NO absolute safe place. Each priest must be judged by their own merits - which must include their spiritual attachment to the Papacy. However, if you chose the stay at home route - that nowhere is good enough - I can assure you that your teenages will lose the faith quicker than a snow flake melts in the Sahara at noon.  This is possibly what His Lordship Bishop Williamson had in mind when he conceded that someone could still save their soul attending the New Mass. Sometimes this is better than not going to Mass at all. It takes an incredibly disciplined person to self-govern their own Sundays and keep it going week after week. 

Re: Go forth and LARP!
« Reply #28 on: November 08, 2025, 12:19:47 PM »
Short term happiness, long term disaster.

No plan for how your faith will survive your whole life.

No consideration for what you stand for.

If you were so upset by Ballini, then stay at home or pick other options in the resistance there.

But you chose "Vatican ii 95% good" Sspx and will pay the price in the end.

Go to the forum suscipe domine. They will welcome you there.

Re: Go forth and LARP!
« Reply #29 on: November 08, 2025, 01:02:21 PM »
Short term happiness, long term disaster.

No plan for how your faith will survive your whole life.

No consideration for what you stand for.

If you were so upset by Ballini, then stay at home or pick other options in the resistance there.

But you chose "Vatican ii 95% good" Sspx and will pay the price in the end.

Go to the forum suscipe domine. They will welcome you there.
Mr. Gubbins, as a convert, I found the SSPX when I was twenty six. I am still attending a SSPX chapel thirty years later. All of my grown children are still attending a SSPX chapel and those that are married, married SSPX spouses and all intend to home educate rather then send their children to a local school. So far so good. But I can tell you, knowing my children as I do, I would not be relating the same story if we had of followed Bp. Ballini into what I can only describe as a toxic wasteland. And when I use the adjective 'toxic' I am referring to the same 'sede' mentality that you ooze here: 'unless you believe as I believe, you are not a 'real' Catholic and therefore not welcome'. Well, Mr. Gubbins, that is not Catholic. That is cult mentality. And I shudder to think of my children ever perceiving themselves superior Catholics to their SSPX/Resistance friends or mainstream cousins. Humility is the cornerstone to salvation, not Bp. Ballini's Masses.