I'm very happy and excited to share with you that I put together a website in honor of Mother Mary, that includes a forum. The purpose of the forum is to enable people to learn more about the Blessed Virgin Mary, in order to grow closer to God; the Father, the Son Jesus and the Holy Spirit. To love them, others and self better. Please feel free to join and let others know. https://MotherMary.Online

Matthew restricted General Discussion as it was being overused. I suggest you choose the next most fitting classification suited to the topic you wish to discuss.

Hello all---
A bit about me.
1962: born and baptized in Wheeling, West Virginia.
1970: first Confession and Communion.
1971: Confirmation.
1980: Began college education with the Jesuits.
1983: Completed college education. Effectively apostatized.
2011: Reverted.
2013: Tradified.
2018: Abandoned McCarrick & Wuerl's QueerChurch for SSPX.

Reside in suburban Washington, D.C.
Unmarried.
Living with myelofibrosis.
Attend St. Pius X Chapel in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.
Sedeprivationist.

Welcome Mike, hoping you make the final jump to realizing heretics can't be popes.

God bless you.

Praying and discerning, aware that I have a constitutional tendency to jump off the deep end.

Welcome, Mike.  I take a slightly different stance on the pope(?).  I’m not sure there’s a word to describe what I am with regard to the papacy.  He’s probably not properly elected, but he nonetheless “occupies” the Chair, as in the manner JB “occupies” the Oval Office or a nation is occupied by an invader. We can’t know for 100% certain.  What is 100% certain is that God will judge him 100% by how he well he served in the capacity of Christ’s Vicar on earth.  Thus far, it doesn’t look well for him.  
There’s an SSPX chapel in Upper Marlboro?  Is it new?  I used to visit my parents when they lived near Salisbury, MD, and would drive to St. Athanasius in Vienna, VA for Mass.  
So glad you found Tradition!

Welcome, Mike.  I take a slightly different stance on the pope(?).  I’m not sure there’s a word to describe what I am with regard to the papacy.  He’s probably not properly elected, but he nonetheless “occupies” the Chair, as in the manner JB “occupies” the Oval Office or a nation is occupied by an invader. We can’t know for 100% certain.  What is 100% certain is that God will judge him 100% by how he well he served in the capacity of Christ’s Vicar on earth.  Thus far, it doesn’t look well for him.

That is my operational definition of sedeprivationism as it is playing out today.  For a formal definition, I refer to the Thesis of Cassiciacuм.

There’s an SSPX chapel in Upper Marlboro?  Is it new? 

Yes.  St. Pius X chapel—curiously, I am told, the only SSPX chapel of that name—occupies what was formerly some sort of independent Protestant meeting house.  We have tried to render it suitable for Catholic worship with an altar, Communion rail, pews, Stations, etc.  It was dedicated in September 2019 on the feast of our holy patron, and is served by priests from the seminary in Virginia.

Before we acquired the property in Maryland, we had the use on Sunday mornings of a funeral chapel in Falls Church, Virginia.  It was there that I began attending Society Masses. 

I cannot figure out Fr. Ringrose and don't intend to try.  I did attend his chapel once, before the Wuhan flu, and it was packed.  That he shut down for the plandemic swayed me to stick with the Society chapel a bit further away, which carried on without missing a week.

Welcome to the forum, Mike!  I have friends who go to the Upper Marlboro chapel. 

Though I don't agree with Father Ringrose about shutting down completely when COVID happened, I can understand why.  He is getting old and wasn't sure at first as to how he could offer Masses and confession within regulations.  And if he didn't follow the exact rules the chapel is right off of Route 7 and would probably have been completely shut down forever and everyone involved sued.  

It was a LOT easier for the SSPX to do their outdoor Masses in Front Royal and Upper Marlboro because they had a lot of younger priests within a few hours taking turns in the responsibilities.  Father Ringrose also lost the help of Father McMahon and Father Ortiz right around the same time and didn't have their help to make things happen as he might have if they had been there.  I know even the Upper Marlboro chapel was having issues with constant complaints about not following regulations and fear of being shut down so the SSPX we're advising as many people as possible to go to the outdoor Front Royal Masses as possible.

I know Father Carlisle complains about the strains of having to do two Masses every Sunday and says he looks forward to having only one.  But...  He is much younger than Father Ringrose and Father Ringrose does 3 every Sunday! 

Just saying...  I don't agree with everything Father Ringrose says and does but he really is just trying to survive.  He was born in 1945, so he must be only a few years shy of 80 now!

The mission in Falls Church opened before Father Ringrose made his "R&R/Sedevacantism" statement...

Thanks, AMDGJMJ. I'd forgotten about the first one