Yes, even an hour or two on a weekly basis is enough. The reason why I say it has to be somewhat consistent is because I will be dedicating my precious time to help you get the ropes and aid you in the process. So this is just a way in which I can dedicate my time to those who have a semi-commitment.
It is just a question of justice and charity, if I am giving it and have been giving it my all for many years. What I ask is a minimal promise that you would do everything in your power to keep it, of course given that nothing extraordinary happens to you which I can understand. Nothing wrong if you can't help, help spread the word if you can. Once I give the link and more details will be given once I get that stuff done.
There are also many other ways in which one can help in their own way, even without editing text. A lot of this stuff in the future will be held in P2P server's and shared through torrents. People can be generous and leave their computers on so that others can share. I will outline many of these things later on, but the gist is that once a text has been triple checked by multiple people to be exactly what the original text had. Then, that book will be specifically out in the open. We can then be able to do several things, put it on Archive.org, put in wiki books also, and also share it through different ways. As this will be a long process the fruits will be seen much later, but first things first! Once we have lots of the original latin text, we can then pool some money together to pay for some translators and put the text in public domain. I would of course rather recommend to simply learn Latin, but most people can't realistically do this. We can then translate the most important books, chapters etc...
What I will also be doing with the list of books that I do not have, I will be ordering them through ILL and then personally scanning them myself. After that OCR'ing them and then we can edit it. So once the list of books is up, what we can then do is get recommendations on what is missing. If anyone else already has high quality scans they can also share that stuff. Once again I emphasize good quality, because it will greatly help to have to edit much less. This is why many google books simply won't work for our purposes.
A good place where you can see the titles of many theologians is this Post Reformation Library, that is where I get a lot of my suggestions from in case anyone is wondering.
http://www.prdl.org/schools.php*Special Note the site is Protestant, but they have good references for many post reformation Scholastic theologians and their books.*
In case anyone is wondering, there are several people who already do editing except that they charge HEFTY amount of money for it.
https://www.logos.com/product/43564/verbum-capstoneThey charge top dollar for Public domain books,
precisely because they needed to pay full time employees to do this work and add links, to cross reference the other software. The more people that participate, the better off everyone is. Everyone benefits, and this is truly to help organize and gather the fruits of everyone's labor. Some people are fortunate enough to have the time, money to be able to get access to these rare out of print books. Thus, they can nourish themselves from Catholic magisterial teachings, when they have a doubt they can go back and look at different opinions settled or disputed matters. We are always willing to change our view, if it is not consonant with the mind of the Church. I can count with few fingers anyone that actually does have a physical copy of a theology manual. This is why ignorance is so bliss among traditionalists and one might be tempted to say. "Well that is the business of the clergy..." We don't need to concern ourselves with these matters! Then they wonder why all their children, accept evolution, or when confronted by atheists/agnostics/apostates about their faith.
They are left like babies twiddling their thumbs, and most of the time they lose the faith. Most of the friends I went to school with in the SSPX, either outright left the Catholic Church (became atheist's), married with a protestant minister or other such ludicrous things. Well it is pretty obvious, they never bothered to study their faith,
they just took it for granted and this is not a luxury we can afford when you live in an age that puts the worm of doubt all the time to your belief's as a Catholic.
Lots of sedeplenist accuse SV'ist of not using their time productively.
Well I would have to say, put your money/actions where your mouth is. Show that you are truly willing to put your time/talent/treasure in the service of someone other than yourself. In fact this was one of the things that really helped me in a small way even if I did not agree with the SV'ist at the time, was the fact that they were so few in number, but yet producing so much good content. Instead of just re-hashing +Lefebvre quotes, they were quoting the good stuff. Most of the literature that has been unearthed in the internet has been produced mostly by sedevacantists of all sorts (home aloners, radical schismatics, MHFM, sedeprivationist). This is especially the manuals, commentaries, and the rich theological minds of the Church. They have always made their works freely available to all, under a very permissive license of sharing and distributing. There are some others that have done some of these things, but they never share it or make it available to others. Its always with a very restrictive purpose in mind, or charge you hefty fee's. Thereby limiting their audience by like 99.99%, what comes to mind is the Saint Benedict Center and many other places. I understand the need to pay the bills etc... There are much better alternatives, in order for people to listen you need to lower the bar to the lowest possible. As soon as you put any restrictions, you are impeding lots of potential good.
The SSPX mostly writes articles that self-references their own theological system/method, but it is mostly obsessed with how their authorities just can't put 2 and 2 to make 4. This is why the whole drama of 40 years, of what the Roman's are doing etc... The Catholic mind desires and wants certainty, not to live in a constant state of sifting EVERYTHING that lawful authorities give to you, questioning whether it is poison or good. The constant back and forth, the vascillating between neither here nor there. Gasp, they are telling us we are not schismatics, and then they tell us we are! Ohh the mixed signals! Breaking news flash, such and such Cardinal said this and that about us. Or worse case scenario as I see very often, they just simply read exclusively the thought of Bishop Lefebvre on all matters and that is it... They never read anything outside of SSPX filters and never get to read the original sources. Bishop Lefebvre has made it pretty clear that he left this issue unsolved, and said that we will let the theologians of the 21st century to solve this question (the doubtfulness of the current claimants). To him the main thing was simply making chapels, and forming more priest's for that purpose.
Ergo, study study study. And then more study study study. And then after that continue to study study study. Notice all the previous errors that everyone in the traditional movement has made,
all of it was due to rash and quick decisions. Scuckardt, thought he had original jurisdiction this much is clear (Vezelis does the same thing). Now notice how +Fellay, +Williamson, +Galaretta (the only one who has never done this is +Tissier, he is my favorite by far the most doctrinally solid of the whole bunch, nay in the whole SSPX) are doing exactly the same thing now. I wish I had the time to list every single thing they are currently doing, but for brevity I can't. Just know that they too are usurping and slowly but surely making it objectively clear that they
pretend to be real Bishops with a Mission from the Church. They of course are excused, but if they would have been wiser and instead of postponing the inevitable and have simply stopped to think about these issues. They would have instead of acting so prejudiciously, they should have set themselves to seriously study the question. Instead of simply just trying to multiply chapels without any sort of doctrinal issues solved. Putting off the big questions, does NO ONE any good. Look at the huge divide in the SSPX, into smaller and smaller divisions. Everyone used to complain how the SV'ist are so "divided", but just notice how divided even the indult is. No one dares ask, geez isn't this absolute proof that indeed the heresiarch and schismatic in Rome the de facto reason why this is happening. Suarez has some interesting things to say about how a Pope can become a Schismatic (how we can detect he indeed is one), and so does Torquemada. Word for word, the Conciliar Popes fall under what they consider schism from Pontiff.
Saint Vincent Ferrer what he did, and most all other Holy Doctors when they were presented with novelty/heresy/schism. They went back into prayer and studied the mind of the Church, not until they had definitely settled in their minds the issue did they do anything. They studied for years sometimes these issues, quietly and prayerfully. The best condemnation of Vatican II, is not post Conciliar traditional writers, but
pre-Vatican II sources when none of these things were ever disputed. The best condemnation of the new mass is any good old book on the mass. Things are only going to get worse, so while you have the chance, please do study. In the future there will be no chance to do so, because you will be worrying more about other important issues. So grasp as much as you can right now, so that you learn the core principles well so that in the future when you are presented with a charismatic false prophet, you will not be dissuaded by great signs and wonders. Your efforts will not be in vain, even some older Novus Ordo clergyman are starting to pay attention. I personally have spoken to one such priest for a period of 4 years over time. He was ordained in 1967, and he is now a Sedevacantist. He still needs to learn many other important issues, but he understands fully the core fundamentals. Think of how hard it is for someone to have worked for that institution for 40 something years, it is so psychologically hard... If you know a conservative indult Novus Ordo presider, talk to him also. You never know, these men deserve the chance to be re-ordained and serve the Church in whatever capacity they can. Some of them
are really sincere, and truly have
a great love for the Church. Sometimes its simply no one even bothers to show them, and take the time to simply explain things. Don't presume anything, don't assume anything.
Charity above all things, you will be able to radiate that love for truth and joy. They will come around, just be patient.
Ultimately the more we can work together to do, it will help give the ammunition so that you can demonstrate that this is clearly not a self-driven spirit. What we are teaching is beyond a shadow of a doubt, the teaching of the Church, and this is why its important to have the sources, freely and easily accessible. Very few of us have these text's that is the truth, if it was not for the few that have posted this stuff online, 99% of traditionalists would pretty much have no access to any of these materials.
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