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Offline Gabriella

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Servants of the Holy Family
« Reply #15 on: October 26, 2016, 11:36:09 PM »
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    Alexandria - yes they are active.  They post all of there sermons on their website.  It is servi.org.  I listen to their sunday sermons.  And, I must say, they are very good sermons.  


    I like their sermons too. Here is one on youtube that tells some things about what Catholics have always believed.

    Offline Gabriella

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    Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #16 on: October 27, 2016, 12:59:28 AM »
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  • The one currently on their website is really good too: http://servi.org/traditional-catholic-sermons/

    I'm always looking for good traditional Catholic sermons or other good things to listen too while I am doing mundane tasks.


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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #17 on: September 12, 2018, 12:44:49 AM »
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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #18 on: October 09, 2019, 07:10:18 AM »
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  • So they will not reveal the name of the bishop who ordained their priests?
    Rom 5: 20 - "But where sin increased, grace abounded all the more."

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #19 on: October 09, 2019, 04:17:07 PM »
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  • If you want to know, call them. Their number can be found on the internet.


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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #20 on: February 25, 2024, 12:54:12 PM »
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  • Here a priest of Servants of the Holy Family tells the name of the Bishop who ordained them after explaining how it happened and why they did not initially reveal the name: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvuzBaYLfTB/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #21 on: February 26, 2024, 07:12:15 AM »
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  • Here a priest of Servants of the Holy Family tells the name of the Bishop who ordained them after explaining how it happened and why they did not initially reveal the name: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvuzBaYLfTB/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bscarpone.html

    Since everyone's too afraid to list the name.  "Consecrated" in 1979.

    So much for having everyone just "trust" them, where the good of their "community" outweighs the need of the faithful to know whether they're receiving valid Sacraments.

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #22 on: February 26, 2024, 08:55:45 AM »
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  • I always dislike it when a priest or bishop isn't willing to be forthcoming about his orders, what bishop ordained or consecrated him, what that bishop's lineage is, whether the priest was ordained (or the bishop was consecrated, as the case may be) in the old or new rite, and so on.  There's a priest on the West Coast who is famously tight-lipped about any of this information, and people are just supposed to trust him, and are in the wrong for asking any questions.  What's wrong with this picture?

    Why not just put the information out there, front and center, and let the faithful make up their own minds?  If a priest was ordained in the new rite, and/or by a bishop who was consecrated in the new rite, just come right out and say it.  (Ditto for those cases where a priest or bishop obtained orders through the Old Catholics and similar groups with putatively valid lines.  Bishop Patrick Taylor was forthcoming about his circuмstances, and while I never met him, I always wanted to visit his chapel in Beckley, West Virginia, but he had died by the time my son and I stayed there overnight on vacation a few years back, we drove out by his chapel and it was closed. Requiescat in pace.)  Those who object to this can just stay away.  Those who don't mind it, can agree to receive that priest's sacraments.  It's not complicated.

    Tell the truth, the whole truth, and let the chips fall where they may.  The traditional faithful shouldn't have to go "digging" to find out what their priest or bishop won't tell them.  That breeds nothing but distrust.  Put another way, there's nobody who thinks "the priest won't tell us the circuмstances of his ordination, oh, how wonderful, he's definitely a priest from whom I want to receive the sacraments". And we've all seen in recent years what can happen when a priest is a "man of mystery" whose past history and present life circuмstances aren't fully known.

    Not hardly.


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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #23 on: February 26, 2024, 09:01:30 AM »
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  • I always dislike it when a priest or bishop isn't willing to be forthcoming about his orders, what bishop ordained or consecrated him, what that bishop's lineage is, whether the priest was ordained in the old or new rite, and so on.

    Why not just put the information out there, front and center, and let the faithful make up their own minds?  If a priest was ordained in the new rite, and/or by a bishop who was consecrated in the new rite, just come right out and say it.  Those who object to this can just stay away.  Those who don't mind it, can agree to receive that priest's sacraments.  It's not complicated.

    Tell the truth, the whole truth, and let the chips fall where they may.  The traditional faithful shouldn't have to go "digging" to find out what their priest or bishop won't tell them.  That breeds nothing but distrust.  Put another way, there's nobody who thinks "the priest won't tell us the circuмstances of his ordination, oh, how wonderful, he's definitely a priest from whom I want to receive the sacraments". And we've all seen in recent years what can happen when a priest is a "man of mystery" whose past history and present life circuмstances aren't fully known.

    Not hardly.

    To a point, I can understand hiding the precise identity of the bishop (SSPV did it for +Mendez until he died), to prevent him from getting into trouble with the Conciliars, but at least they should have been forthcoming that this bishop 1) was ordained in the Traditional Rite before Vatican II but 2) was consecrated in the New Rite after Vatican II.  With at least this much information, which does nothing to leak his identity (since that applied to probably a couple hundred bishops), the faithful could at least decide whether to go there for the Sacraments.  Yes, you have to "trust" them that they're not lying about it, that a consecration did in fact take place and it was done in the manner they claim, but they shouldn't have to "trust" and accept their theological judgment that the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration does not labor under positive doubt.  Without knowing these details, and without trusting them, I wouldn't so much as darken the door on their chapel.

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #24 on: February 26, 2024, 09:04:31 AM »
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  • That "priest" in the video also claims that this bishop (having been an Ordinary) gave them jurisdiction for Confessions, etc.  What?  Outside his own diocese?  It doesn't work that way, and makes me question the quality of their training ... and the quality of their theology (in addition to their conclusions about the NO rite of consecration).

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #25 on: February 26, 2024, 09:05:20 AM »
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  • To a point, I can understand hiding the precise identity of the bishop (SSPV did it for +Mendez until he died), to prevent him from getting into trouble with the Conciliars, but at least they should have been forthcoming that this bishop 1) was ordained in the Traditional Rite before Vatican II but 2) was consecrated in the New Rite after Vatican II.  With at least this much information, which does nothing to leak his identity (since that applied to probably a couple hundred bishops), the faithful could at least decide whether to go there for the Sacraments.  Yes, you have to "trust" them that they're not lying about it, that a consecration did in fact take place and it was done in the manner they claim, but they shouldn't have to "trust" and accept their theological judgment that the New Rite of Episcopal Consecration does not labor under positive doubt.  Without knowing these details, and without trusting them, I wouldn't so much as darken the door on their chapel.

    Yes, with SSPV and Mendez, that was a special case, and I totally get that.  But it should be a rare exception, and as you point out, the SSPV should have been forthcoming about at least the information you cite.  Again, tell the faithful, and let them make up their own minds.  

    Silence doesn't inspire confidence.


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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #26 on: February 26, 2024, 09:09:20 AM »
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  • Yes, with SSPV and Mendez, that was a special case, and I totally get that.  But it should be a rare exception, and as you point out, the SSPV should have been forthcoming about at least the information you cite.  Again, tell the faithful, and let them make up their own minds. 

    Silence doesn't inspire confidence.

    Right.  See, at least with the SSPV, they're on record as emphatically disputing the validity of the new rites of ordination and episcopal consecration (it was one of the main reasons for their split from SSPX), and they are so "strict" (to a fault) about it that they question the validity of 90% of the Traditional Catholic bishops and priests out there (not only the Thuc line, but also Bishop Williamson ... due to the "one hand" problem -- or, rather, made-up problem).  So you can be sure they wouldn't be messing around with dubious orders (I think).  Now, if I didn't know The Nine personally, and were just someone, say, from a foreign country, who didn't know them from the Old Catholics down the street, I wouldn't darken the door of their chapel either.

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    Re: Servants of the Holy Family
    « Reply #27 on: February 26, 2024, 01:10:45 PM »
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  • I'm under the impression that they did not release if name of the bishop for the exact same reason the SSPV didn't. However they should have said at the least that he was consecrated in the new rite. Father Ward was ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre and I believe still offers Mass there.