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Offline finn

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Hello
Can I ask for your opinion
 
Is it OK to go a Latin mass that is said by a priest from the Institute of Christ the King or the The Fraternity of St Peter?
why why not?
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« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2012, 09:53:53 AM »
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  • I can't give you a difinitive answer to your question.

    I can tell you that I avoid such organization because I have serious doubts of the validity of the Novus Ordo orders and priests of these organizations are always (or, at least, almost always) ordained by bishops who were consecrated in the new rites which, if that rite is not valid, would make orders conferred by them invalid even if they use the traditional rite to ordain the priests.

    Furthermore, priests who are in "full communion" (whatever that means) with Modernist Rome are not priests who are trustworthy.


    Offline Lover of Truth

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    « Reply #2 on: November 06, 2012, 10:54:00 AM »
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    Hello
    Can I ask for your opinion
     
    Is it OK to go a Latin mass that is said by a priest from the Institute of Christ the King or the The Fraternity of St Peter?
    why why not?
    Thanks


    They have doubtful orders.  They accept V2 and the new Mass (they have to claim this in order to be "regular" in the NO Church).  The donations you give them goes to the NO to cover up pedophilia (pay for lawyers and lawsuits and to intimidate and pay off the victims) and for wreckovations not done yet and for protestent catechesis.

    They are the high Anglicans of the new Church.  They might smell better but they are members of a false Church.  But most importantly it is doubful they confect the Sacrament which means those who go worship and kneel before a piece of bread.  

    No NO "traditional" group should be attended and that will certainly include the SSPX should they formally get sucked in.



    "I receive Thee, redeeming Prince of my soul. Out of love for Thee have I studied, watched through many nights, and exerted myself: Thee did I preach and teach. I have never said aught against Thee. Nor do I persist stubbornly in my views. If I have ever expressed myself erroneously on this Sacrament, I submit to the judgement of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience of which I now part from this world." Saint Thomas Aquinas the greatest Doctor of the Church

    Offline Faber

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    « Reply #3 on: November 06, 2012, 12:24:05 PM »
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  • My two cents:

    The schismatic and heretic "Orthodox" have valid sacraments. Still it is a grave sin to attend their mass.

    Now, we wait for a Pope to condemn the Second Vatican Council, the conciliar Magisterium, the conciliar Popes and so forth. Why would we meanwhile attend the mass of those we expect to be condemned?

    If we don't expect them to be condemned, then we should obey them, and attend even the Novus Ordo mass.

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    « Reply #4 on: November 06, 2012, 12:33:16 PM »
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  • You can always hear Mass at the ICKSP or FSSP.  

    There's no requirement for Holy Communion every time you step in a Catholic Church.  


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    « Reply #5 on: November 06, 2012, 01:00:57 PM »
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  • Here's a sound word from a sound Roman-Catholic bishop:


    Eleison Comments 263 (28 July 2012): Conciliar Infection

    May Catholics who wish to keep the Faith attend a Tridentine Mass celebrated by a priest who is part of the Conciliar Church, for instance by his belonging to the Institute of Christ the King or to the Fraternity of St Peter? The answer has to be that, as a rule, a Catholic may not attend such a Mass, even if it is a Tridentine Mass, and even if it is worthily celebrated. What can be the justification for such a seemingly strict rule?

    The basic reason is that the Catholic Faith is more important than the Mass. For if through no fault of my own even for a long time I cannot attend Mass but I keep the Faith, then I can still save my soul, whereas if I lose the Faith but for whatever reason go on attending Mass, I cannot save my soul (“Without faith it is impossible to please God” – Heb. XI, 6). Thus I attend Mass in order to live my Faith, and, belief going with worship, I attend the true Mass in order to keep the true Faith. I do not keep the Faith in order to attend Mass.

    It follows that if the celebration of a Tridentine Mass is surrounded by circuмstances that threaten to undermine my faith, then depending on the gravity of the threat, I may not attend such a Mass. That is why Masses celebrated by schismatic Orthodox priests may be valid, but the Church in her right mind used to forbid Catholics to attend on pain of grave sin, because, belief and worship going together, the non-Catholic worship threatened the Catholics’ faith. Now Orthodoxy has in the course of centuries caused huge harm to the Catholic Church, but can anything compare with the devastation wrought upon that Church within mere tens of years by Conciliarism? If then Catholics were forbidden to attend Mass in Orthodox circuмstances, would not the same Church in her right mind forbid to attend a Tridentine Mass celebrated in Conciliar circuмstances?

    Then what is meant by Conciliar circuмstances? The answer must be, any circuмstances which, over a shorter or longer period of time, are going to make me think that the Second Vatican Council was not an utter disaster for the Church. Such a circuмstance might be a charming and believing priest who has no problem with celebrating either the new or the old Mass, and who preaches and acts as though the Council presents no serious problem. Conciliarism is so dangerous because it can so be made to seem Catholic that I can lose the Faith without – or almost without – realizing it.

    Of course common sense will take into account a variety of special circuмstances. For instance a good priest trapped for now within the Conciliar church may need encouragement to start on his way out of it by my attending his first celebrations of the true Mass. But the general rule must remain that I can have nothing to do with even the true Mass being celebrated in a Conciliar context. For confirmation, notice how Rome began by allowing the Institute of the Good Shepherd to celebrate exclusively the true Mass, because Rome knew that once the Institute had swallowed the official hook, eventually Rome could be sure of pulling the Institute into their Conciliar net. Sure enough. It took only five years.

    That is the danger of any practical agreement without a doctrinal agreement between Rome and the Society of St Pius X. So long as Rome believes in its Conciliar doctrine, it is bound to use any such agreement to pull the SSPX in the direction of the Council, and the context of every SSPX Mass would become Conciliar, if not rapidly, at least in the long run. Forewarned is forearmed.

    Kyrie eleison.

    Bishop Richard Williamson

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    « Reply #6 on: November 06, 2012, 01:05:08 PM »
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    You can always hear Mass at the ICKSP or FSSP.

    I don't think, I should.


    The opinion of the SSPX, why a Catholic ought not to attend their [FSSP] Masses can be found here on sspx.org.

    Their conclusion is:

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    This being so, attending their Mass is:

     - accepting the compromise on which they are based,
     - accepting the direction taken by the Conciliar Church
       and the consequent destruction of the Catholic Faith and practices, and
     - accepting, in particular, the lawfulness and doctrinal soundness
        of the Novus Ordo Missae and Vatican II.

    That is why a Catholic ought not to attend their Masses.



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    « Reply #7 on: November 06, 2012, 01:39:38 PM »
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    You can always hear Mass at the ICKSP or FSSP.

    I don't think, I should.


    The opinion of the SSPX, why a Catholic ought not to attend their [FSSP] Masses can be found here on sspx.org.

    Their conclusion is:

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    This being so, attending their Mass is:

     - accepting the compromise on which they are based,
     - accepting the direction taken by the Conciliar Church
       and the consequent destruction of the Catholic Faith and practices, and
     - accepting, in particular, the lawfulness and doctrinal soundness
        of the Novus Ordo Missae and Vatican II.

    That is why a Catholic ought not to attend their Masses.




    Plus people do not even consider that they go in and genuflect before the bread in the tabernacle.  That is worshipping bread.  It breaks the first commandment.  
    "I receive Thee, redeeming Prince of my soul. Out of love for Thee have I studied, watched through many nights, and exerted myself: Thee did I preach and teach. I have never said aught against Thee. Nor do I persist stubbornly in my views. If I have ever expressed myself erroneously on this Sacrament, I submit to the judgement of the Holy Roman Church, in obedience of which I now part from this world." Saint Thomas Aquinas the greatest Doctor of the Church


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    « Reply #8 on: November 06, 2012, 03:55:43 PM »
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    I can tell you that I avoid such organization because I have serious doubts of the validity of the Novus Ordo orders and priests of these organizations are always (or, at least, almost always) ordained by bishops who were consecrated in the new rites which, if that rite is not valid, would make orders conferred by them invalid even if they use the traditional rite to ordain the priests.

    Furthermore, priests who are in "full communion" (whatever that means) with Modernist Rome are not priests who are trustworthy.


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    They have doubtful orders.  They accept V2 and the new Mass (they have to claim this in order to be "regular" in the NO Church).  The donations you give them goes to the NO to cover up pedophilia (pay for lawyers and lawsuits and to intimidate and pay off the victims) and for wreckovations not done yet and for protestent catechesis.

    They are the high Anglicans of the new Church.  They might smell better but they are members of a false Church.  But most importantly it is doubful they confect the Sacrament which means those who go worship and kneel before a piece of bread.  

    No NO "traditional" group should be attended and that will certainly include the SSPX should they formally get sucked in.


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    My two cents:

    The schismatic and heretic "Orthodox" have valid sacraments. Still it is a grave sin to attend their mass.

    Now, we wait for a Pope to condemn the Second Vatican Council, the conciliar Magisterium, the conciliar Popes and so forth. Why would we meanwhile attend the mass of those we expect to be condemned?

    If we don't expect them to be condemned, then we should obey them, and attend even the Novus Ordo mass.


    I couldn't put it better, except to add that the among people who go to these places a good percentage do not live the faith. They are not good examples for children.

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    « Reply #9 on: November 06, 2012, 05:23:03 PM »
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    You can always hear Mass at the ICKSP or FSSP.  

    There's no requirement for Holy Communion every time you step in a Catholic Church.  


    I'm sorry Capt, but this is a non sequitur.  Your reply is completely irrelevant to the discussion at hand.

    I have to ask for what reason should one abstain from Holy Communion unless one is not personally disposed to receive (i.e., serious sin or have not fasted)?  This is not relevant to the question of attending Mass.  Further, if the reason for abstaining is because of doubts about the validity of that Communion, then would it not, in itself, be a serious sin to hear that Mass?

    If all you want to do is hear a Mass, you could read the Missal yourself...but you still would not have a Mass (unless you are a priest).

    While it is true that Holy Communion is not required, it is certainly not true that simply hearing the words of Mass gives a soul any graces if that Mass is of doubtful validity.

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    « Reply #10 on: November 07, 2012, 09:42:46 AM »
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  • Well, I can already see I'm going to be outnumbered on this, but in any case, since nobody else seems to be willing to say even a word in their defense against all the calumnies that are uttered against them here, let me just say that the FSSP does for the last 25 odd years merely what the SSPX and other traditional groups did for about 20 odd years before that - to form orthodox priests in Catholic seminaries, such as are most badly needed today, with solid doctrinal catechesis and traditional liturgical orthopraxis, and all this under the legitimate Roman authorities, again, like the SSPX always did from the beginning, and who still recognize that authority.

    It's amusing that the primary reason offered by most of the people in this thread is a reason declared avowedly false by all the SSPX theologians, the majority of its priests, its Bishops, and finally Archbishop Lefebvre himself - the claim that the new rites are invalid. That is not a true claim, but more to the point here, it is not the position of the Society. There's an excellent article put out by the Angelus that is in this forum's library that establishes the validity of the rites, from theology, from Tradition, from history, from sacramental principles and from reason, done and approved by the SSPX priests and Bishops.

    Regarding some of the actual criticisms the SSPX authorities make of St.Peter's, with respect to these which are more important, suffice to say St.Peter's believes their position is, on the whole, more consistent when all things are taken into account. There are two principal points of disagreement, and this is what was enlisted in the agreement of 1988, which Archbishop Lefebvre at least temporarily considered. That is, that the new rites are not invalid (which is not to say there are not other legitimate criticisms that can be made of them) and one regarding the Council itself in the light of Tradition.

    Now, the FSSP is scorned mostly by independent groups, and the difficulties it has faced at times from the Roman authorities is said to be proof of its failure. But just by way of comparison, there was another group of a few priests, just like St.Peter's that split from the SSPX around the time, slightly earlier, than they did. This was the SSPV.

    Now, by way of comparison, the FSSP since then now has about 200 priests and 150 seminarians, almost keeping pace with the historical growth rate of the SSPX, Fr.Borg said recently that they've helped since SP some 100 diocesan priests have offered the traditional Mass, have remained relatively scandal-free, and have many good and holy priests zealous for the salvation of souls orthodoxy in believing all that the Church has ever defined. This is rather better than the SSPV, all told, it seems to me. So the FSSP are a model that even without all the benefits that go with independence, it is at least not impossible to work for the good of the universal and Catholic Church in a canonically regular situation with the Holy and Apostolic See of St.Peter.

    "Never will anyone who says his Rosary every day become a formal heretic ... This is a statement I would sign in my blood." St. Montfort, Secret of the Rosary. I support the FSSP, the SSPX and other priests who work for the restoration of doctrinal orthodoxy and liturgical orthopraxis in the Church. I accept Vatican II if interpreted in the light of Tradition and canonisations as an infallible declaration that a person is in Heaven. Sedevacantism is schismatic and Ecclesiavacantism is heretical.


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    « Reply #11 on: November 07, 2012, 10:01:08 AM »
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    Hello
    Can I ask for your opinion
     
    Is it OK to go a Latin mass that is said by a priest from the Institute of Christ the King or the The Fraternity of St Peter?
    why why not?
    Thanks


    All excellent replies, simply stay away - do not go.
    This is particularly sound advice for those who need to ask this question since, no disrespect to you intended, it shows they do not understand the ferocity of the crisis within the Church.

    We must separate ourselves from the NO at all costs, no matter what. We cannot be numbered among those who seek to destroy the Church - even and especially when they employ the Holy Sacrifice as one of their means to further their efforts toward Her destruction.

    Prior to V2, Holy Mother condemned our participation at the Mass in non-Catholic buildings (whether masquerading as Catholic buildings or not), celebrated by doubtful priests while being a member of a congregation who proves their indifference to this condemnation by simply being there.

    Having said all that, if you do in fact go to one of the Diocesan TLMs, first, you are obligated to donate nothing.
    Second, we are obligated to find out at least when the priest was ordained, and if he is ordination could be deemed doubtful then we are obligated to stay away - - - -  if there is a good possibility that he was ordained by a NO bishop that you know - or the bishop is known publicly to say and do explicitly heretical things, you are justified in  deeming the ordination doubtful and are obligated not to participate.

       

     
    "But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God, rather than men." - Acts 5:29

    The Highest Principle in the Church: "We are first of all under obedience to God, and only then under obedience to man" - Fr. Hesse

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    « Reply #12 on: November 07, 2012, 10:23:18 AM »
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  • The problem is that the FSSP and the institute of Christ the king get too comfortable and do not battle the heresies and apostacies that surround them.  

    For example the latin mass is being offerred in the most liberal diocese.  It is so bad they won't even let the fssp or christ the institute to take over churches; instead the liberals hate tradition and choose to close down and remove Christ from our towns and communiteis.

    They allow the latin mass at on parish while the others are having pagan liturgical dancing and encourageing racial hatred and segregation.
    How can the sacraments even be valid especially confirmation if it is NO bishop.
    I was thinking about this last night.


    Drop off literature.  Talk about the errors of vatican II.  

    It more then nostalgia of the Mass,,,, it is about our Faith and sacraments too.

    Modernism and traditional can't co exist.  

    We don't mistreat people we do our best to convert them.  At least we should try.  Invite them to sspx chapel so they can see the difference.  
    May God bless you and keep you

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    « Reply #13 on: November 07, 2012, 10:24:34 AM »
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  • The liberal hierarchy of Rome fears the sspx.  They want to destroy it because it is holy and true Faith.


    May God bless you and keep you

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    « Reply #14 on: November 07, 2012, 10:35:48 AM »
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  • Quote from: Nishant
    It's amusing that the primary reason offered by most of the people in this thread is a reason declared avowedly false by all the SSPX theologians, the majority of its priests, its Bishops, and finally Archbishop Lefebvre himself - the claim that the new rites are invalid. That is not a true claim, but more to the point here, it is not the position of the Society.


    While this is the "position" of the Society today, the Society still gives many sacraments conditionally in many instances and, at one time, it was the "position" of the Society to conditionally ordain all priests who say Mass at Society chapels.  While this "position" has changed, they've never explained why--which only leads the ignorant masses to assume that it has something to do with the desire for reconciliation with Modernist rome.

    While The Angelus did indeed publish an article claiming that the new rites of episcopal consecration are intrinsically valid, the magazine also published, years earlier, an article explaining why priests from the Novus Ordo required conditional ordination.

    The one thing about the SSPX that is very troublesome is that they insist on the right to have it both ways.  The problem is that these are mutually exclusive "truths".