Skid, that is not for my personal benefit. I have always known and agreed the priest cannot knowingly put a false pope in the canon.
My thing is about whether it is intrinsically evil for a sedevacantist to assist at a mass where the priest unknowingly puts a false pope in the canon but believes he is a true pope.
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A Pastoral Letter in the Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
My dear child in Our Lord,
Peace be in your heart. When questions arise that touch the holy altar and the worship we owe to God, they must be approached with both firmness in truth and great gentleness of spirit. For nothing so honors God as a conscience kept in simplicity and peace.
You ask whether you may assist at a Mass where the priest, in good faith, names in the Canon one whom you judge with moral certainty to be separated from the Church by manifest heresy. Let us consider this with calmness and clarity.
First, remember that God does not condemn the priest who acts in ignorance. He intends to honor the Church as he understands her, and the Lord receives the good will of His servants. But your own conscience is another matter. If you see clearly that the commemoration signifies a unity that is not truly present, then for you the act becomes a false sign. And the heart that knows a thing to be false must not join itself to it, for Our Lord desires that we worship Him “in spirit and in truth.”
The Church teaches that no one may act against a certain conscience, for to do so is to choose what one judges to be evil. Even if the act is not evil in itself, it becomes evil for the one who knowingly embraces what his conscience condemns. Thus, if you believe with firm and prudent certainty that the Canon is falsified, you must refrain from assisting at such a Mass, not out of harshness toward the priest, but out of fidelity to the truth God has shown you.
Do not be troubled by this. God does not bind you to what your conscience judges to be sinful. The obligation to hear Mass does not oblige when its fulfillment would require you to cooperate in what you believe to be a sacrilege. The Lord is a gentle Master; He asks for obedience, but never at the cost of the soul’s integrity.
Walk, then, in peace. Avoid bitterness, avoid judgment of persons, avoid all harsh speech. Hold fast to the truth as God gives you to see it, but hold it with charity, humility, and patience. If you must refrain from a particular Mass, do so quietly, without reproach, and with a heart full of prayer for the priest and for the whole Church.
May the Savior, who is meek and humble of heart, guide your conscience, strengthen your resolve, and keep you always in His peace.
Yours in the gentle Heart of Jesus,
Francis
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